This short paper analyzes Namibia's data from 1968 to 1992 in order to determine the role of exports in economic growth …. The analysis confirms the general importance of exports, but finds no discernible sign of accelerated growth because of it … stimulate new, economic growth. An important finding is that domestic export supply factors are more essential to growth than …

Economic Perspectives (Summer, 1999: 3-114) published a collection of symposium papers on “Slow Growth in Africa”. Clearly the …

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 …

In this paper, we study some of the properties of a discrete-time version of the two-class model of growth and …

This research develops a unified growth theory that captures the transition from the domination of geographical factors … agrarian to an industrial economy generating diverging growth patterns across countries. Furthermore, the qualitative change in …

asymmetrically. The gains from trade were channeled towards population growth in non- industrial nations while in the industrial … nations they were directed towards investment in education and growth in output per capita. International trade enhanced the … comparative disadvantage in the production of skilled intensive goods. The focus on the interaction between population growth and …

This paper looks at the linkages between growth and business cycles by bringing together two strands of literature. We … incorporate a quality ladders engine of growth into an otherwise standard real business cycle model. Our fundamental question is …

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 …