transportation technology on economic development.  First, colonial railroads had strong effects on commercial agriculture and urban … growth before independence. We exploit various identification strategies to ensure these effects are causal.  Second, using …-term effects on economic growth. …

This paper investigates the role of aid in mitigating the adverse effects of commodity export price shocks on growth in … commodity-dependent countries.  Using a large cross-country dataset, we find that negative shocks matter for short-term growth … the exchange rate substantially lower the adverse growth effect of shocks.  While the mitigating effect of aid is …

The current paper demonstrates a dochotomy of the growth response to changes in the barter terms of trade (TOT …

the growth of commodity exporters.  This paper adopts panel cointegration methodology to explore longer term effects than …

We study the impact of growth and growth accelerations on poverty and inequality in Indonesia using a new panel dataset …-mining sectors of the economy.  We find that growth in non-mining significantly reduces poverty and inequality.  In contrast, overall … growth and growth in mining appears to have no effect on poverty and inequality.  We also identify growth acceleration …

that the decline of agriculture and rise of manufacturing can be explained by population growth once the land frontier had …

There is a growing policy interest in the role of financial structure in promoting development.  However, very little …