Asian Pacific region. The recent growth in oil consumption, combined with forecasts of increased oil imports (especially … of China’s energy sector, emphasising the strong growth in its energy demand to date and its potential for future growth …

agrarian stages. We explain this rise-and- fall pattern of slavery in a growth model with land and labor as inputs in … agents own their labor. In this process, the role of population growth switches from being a force driving the transition …

We set up a unified growth model capturing the transition of a primitive and egalitarian hunter-gatherer society, into … human capital productivity and pushing the economy to sustained growth: an industrial revolution. Allowing also for a …

disease, on human capital investment decisions and income growth. This research is particularly relevant to Sub-Saharan Africa … given the dramatic reduction in life expectancy due to HIV/AIDS and the potential lasting effects on growth. Our results … indicate that as life expectancy shortens so does schooling inducing a lower growth rate of income. These relationships are …

the poverty of objects and the lack of ideas, as central to economic growth rate differences across economies, have … enriched economic growth theory. However, both object- idea gaps, and factor-force specialization do not make explicit intra … growth. Economies with strong positive resource intra- and inter-actions produce more output than others. In fact, intra- and …