Some natural resources—oil and minerals in particular—exert a negative and nonlinear impact on growth via their …

annual growth rate of labor productivity can be explained as an endogenous response to an exogenous 0.2 percent annual growth …

unsuccessful to achieve high standards of economic growth allows us to combine the micro historical analysis (in the Catalan case …

The dismal growth performance of Africa is the worst economic tragedy of the XXth century. We document the evolution of … robust determinants of economic growth reported by Sala-i-Martin, Doppelhofer and Miller (2003) and project the annual growth …

that leads to the stabilization of concentrations at 450 ppm. (2) North and South converge to a path of sustained growth at … year while South’s rates of growth are markedly higher. The transition paths require a drastic reduction of the share of … education in South. Surprisingly, in order to sustain North’s utility growth rate, some output must be transferred from South to …

both an engine of growth and a potential barrier to it. As a result, growth is an inverse U-shaped function of the … standardization rate (and of competition). Second, we characterize the growth and welfare maximizing speed of standardization. We show …

We study a dynamic model where growth requires both long-term investment and the selection of talented managers. When …