This paper examines the effect of natural resource dependence on growth in a cross-country setting during 1970 to 2010 … there is a resource curse adversely effecting growth via institutional deterioration in the longer term (1970-2010), but … more for growth, including governance and constraints on the executive relative to democracy. …

This paper  provides an assessment of economic growth, employment and poverty reduction in the Arab MENA region … employment and poverty impacts of growth are of particular concern to policy makers. In the short run for employment growth to be … faster than output growth the employment elasticity of growth has to be greater than unity. This is an important condition …

This paper investigates the effects of inequality in health on economic growth in low and middle income countries. The … income growth controlling for life expectancy, country and time fixed-effects and a large number of other effects that have … been shown to matter for growth. The effect also holds if health inequality is instrumented to circumvent a potential …

In this study, I investigate the short run and long run effects of government size and exports on the economic growth … economic growth in addition to labor force and capital. I use total exports, oil exports and non-oil exports respectively in … three different equations to assess their effects on economic growth. Moreover, according to Armey curve(1995) in each of …