male and female education, and the regressions also suggest that states which have larger gender-gaps in education have …

Do openness to trade and higher levels of human capital promote faster productivity growth? That they do is a key … implication of several versions of endogenous growth theory. To answer the question we use panel data on 93 countries spanning the … on productivity growth. If the level of openness of an economy is doubled the underlying rate of technical progress will …

growth before independence. We exploit various identification strategies to ensure these effects are causal.  Second, using …-term effects on economic growth. …

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 …

financial development with economic growth. A recent theoretical literature offers a way of reconciling these two sets of …

. The higher the average rate of income growth, the higher the saving rate. If individuals have uncertain lifetimes, a …

on economic growth is affected by wealth inequality.  The results suggest (a) that opening to trade tends to accelerate … growth but (b) that the addition to growth depends inversely on the level of wealth inequality prior to opening.  These … findings confirm the general importance for rapid growth in developing countries of reducing inequality of opportunity. …

the ex post effect of hurricane Mitch on consumption growth of Nicaraguan agricultural households.  How persistent was … municipal centres to complement survey reports of hurricane-induced losses.  Within the treated sample, micro-growth model … lower growth between 1998 and 2001, even accounting for spatial heterogeneity.  Overall, hurricane Mitch's direct …

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 …