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 …

We analyze the interplay between longevity, pollution and growth. We develop an OLG model where longevity, pollution … and growth are endogenous. The authorities may provide two types of public services, public health and environmental … maintenance, that participate to increase agents' life expectancy and to sustain growth in the long term. We show that global …

uncertainty on capital inflows in such an economy generates long-term (expected) growth while the deterministic counterpart does … not. In this framework, long-term growth is entirely driven by precautionary savings. In particular, we show that the … asymptotic growth rate of the expected capital stock is an increasing function of both the risk parameter and the Arrow …

growing economy, that is when population growth is optimal in the long-run, this egalitarian rule can only hold when (i) the …

The paper investigates the impact of ownership concentration on GDP growth, for a sample of 18 OECD countries over the … period 1980 to 2004. The econometric analysis shows that more concentrated ownership can speed up growth, for countries … regulation, the logic of financial markets discipline applies and dispersed ownership appears as more favorable for growth. Based …

Recently, many contributions have focused on the relationship between capital accumulation, growth and population … environmental concerns. One can therefore explain a simultaneous increase of capital intensity, population growth and pollution … capital intensity, population growth and pollution. …

). 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 …

After a decade of research on the relationship between institutions and growth, scholars in this field seem to be … divided. Economic institutions perform well in growth regressions and a body of literature argues that this supports the key … literature describes are the more stable political institutions, and these have been found to play no role in empirical growth …