political economy perspective. We consider an endogenous growth economy, where growth generates pollution and a deterioration of … the environment. Public expenditures may either be devoted to supporting growth or abating pollution. The decision over …, the less she will tax and devote resources to the environment, preferring to support growth. …

growth. This paper analyses the innovation-productivity relationship at the industry-level for a sample of OECD manufacturing …Several recent policy and academic contributions consider that liberalising product markets would foster innovation and … and for a given time period. Contrary to the most widespread policy claims, the innovation-boosting effects of …

This paper reformulates the finance-growth nexus in the case of developing countries. Using the Neoclassical growth … framework, our contribution is threefold. First, we show that entrepreneurship is a growth-enhancing factor in both financial …

Restructuring practices belong to today's organizational life. Even if the phenomenon is not new it significantly … decisions. Much debated in popular medias, restructuring issues have been also inspiring scholars from various fields (sociology … hardly contributed in understanding the deep complexity and the multiple hidden dimensions of restructuring situations. We …

growth over the period 1981-2005. The econometric relationships derived in this paper suggest that future reductions in CO2 …

We make use of a bootstrap panel analysis of causality between energy use and economic growth for a sample of sixteen … African countries over the period 1988-2010. Our results show that growth and energy use are strongly linked in Africa …. However, African countries are heterogeneous and there is no "one way" recommendation about energy-growth relationship that …

). Indeed, after WWII, thinking on development was focused on growth. A major shift occurred in the late 1990s, which has … consisted in the replacement of 'growth' or 'development' as a goal of policymakers and international institutions and a central …-à-vis the previous one of growth and development, and the acceptance that development is no longer the priority goal of public …

In this paper, we first, perform a quantitative assessment of the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on growth. Second, we …, population and labor force. That is, we disentangle the effect on the different sources of short and long run growth. Using a … and long-lasting effects on demography and growth. According to the estimates presented, GDP per working age population …