period 1965-1990, to decompose total factor productivity growth into technical change and technical efficiency change …. Empirical results show East Asian countries led the whole world in productivity growth, mainly because their technical … hypothesis that East Asian growth was mostly input-driven and unsustainable. …

role of productivity and its components in economic growth of developed and developing nations in addition to the … importance of factor accumulation. Although not much explored in the study of economic growth, frontier techniques seem to be of … developing countries in terms of rates of growth of income per worker. More important, we find that changes in allocative …

The relationship between income distribution and economic growth has been found to depend on several factors such as … trade and openness. The current work assesses how income inequality influences growth stimating a reduced form growth … household income from national surveys, it is found that inequality and growth are positively related. When analysing different …

This article analyzes the effects of financial liberalization on economic growth, focusing mainly the empirical aspects … has capital account liberalization had on economic growth? Has liberalization affected equally both developed and … developing countries? What sort of private capital flow has had the greatest impact on growth? To answer these questions, the …

In this paper we try to estimate the impact of Structural Funds on the growth rates of Objective 1 European regions … during the two first Programming periods (1989-2000). For that purpose, we develop a ''hybrid'' model of economic growth that … results suggest that Structural Funds have positively influenced the growth process of Objective 1 regions although their …

Human capital plays an important role in the theory of economic growth, but it has been difficult to measure this … and Vanhanen (2002), we show that national average IQ has a robust positive relationship with economic growth. Using a … methodology derived from Sala-i-Martin (1997a), we show that in growth regressions that include only robust control variables, IQ …

This paper analyses plant entry, total factor productivity growth, average productivity level differentials and … that entrants adopted competitive post-entry strategies. Total factor productivity growth decomposition shows that the … source of productivity growth. Econometric results suggest that barriers to entry associated with plant technology licensing …