In a majority of OECD countries, GDP growth over the past three decades has been associated with growing income … disparities. To shed some lights on the potential sources of trade-offs between growth and equity, this paper investigates the … long-run impact of structural reforms on GDP per capita and household income distribution. Pro-growth reforms can be …

vital role for the functioning of the economy, can contribute to raising growth and social welfare. But more is not always … identifies the policy framework that promotes investment that is conducive to growth and ensures the appropriate use of …

In this paper, we test whether the growth experience of a sample of OECD countries over the past three decades is more … consistent with the human-capital augmented Solow model of exogenous growth, or with an endogenous growth model à la Uzawa … implied by these two models to discriminate between them. Using pooled crosscountry time-series data, we specify our growth …

The quality of the OECD's Economic Outlook growth projections was last evaluated in-house at the peak of the previous … business cycle, calling for a reassessment. This paper analyses the OECD's annual GDP growth projections for the G7 countries … over the period 1991-2006 and compares them with the Consensus Economics forecasts. It shows that OECD growth projections …

much better than the Barro and Lee (1996) or Nehru <I>et al.</I> (1995) series in a number of growth specifications. We … on the (lack of) relationship between educational investment and growth. Using our preferred empirical specification, we …

This paper reviews recent studies on the links between competition, innovation and productivity growth in the long run …

, which has provided a significant boost to growth, productivity, competitiveness, profits and (more controversially …