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 …

changes, in the sense that the good done to growth by rising remittances is not as great as the bad done by falling …

This paper develops a growth theory that captures the replacement of physical capital accumulation by human capital … accumulation as a prime engine of growth along the process of development. It argues that the positive impact of inequality on the … growth process was reversed in this process. In early stages of the Industrial Revolution, when physical capital accumulation …

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 …

-abundant East Asia traded more heavily with the U.S. and thus engineered faster growth than did land-abundant Latin America. Factor … the pre-WWII growth of Japan, Southeast Asia's growth in the 1970s and the 1980s, and its economic crisis in the mid-1990s. …

economic growth. The analysis focuses on recently advanced unified growth theories that capture the intricate evolution of … triggered the transition from stagnation to growth and the associated phenomenon of the great divergence in income per capita … across countries has been widely viewed as one of the most significant challenges facing researchers in the field of growth …

Past research on aid and growth is flawed because it typically examines the impact of aggregate aid on growth over a … short period, usually four years, while significant portions of aid are unlikely to affect growth in such a brief time. We … divide aid into three categories: (1) emergency and humanitarian aid (likely to be negatively correlated with growth); (2 …