This study consists of an examination of productivity growth following three major technological breakthroughs: the … original invention until a substantial increase in the rate of productivity growth can be observed. There is also strong … growth rates. For the ICT revolution the highest productivity growth rates are found in the ICT-producing industries. We …

effects of its own investment, while treating other countries' investments as given. Average world growth is endogenous, as is …

trade expansion. Specifically, we present a stages-of-growth model in which the four phenomena are jointly endogenous and … phenomena - the industrialization and growth take-off of rich 'northern' nations, massive global income divergence, and rapid …

The paper demonstrates how trade between developing countries can cause the divergence of long-run growth among these … trade occurs at any moment if the countries have different numbers of intermediate varieties. The country with a larger … number produces more manufactured goods than the other country does. In the bilateral trade the advanced country exports …

growth. Data from the World Values Survey enable us to investigate tolerance–growth relationships for 54 countries. We … tolerance toward homosexuals is negatively related to growth. For tolerance toward people of a different race, we do not find …

We conduct an extensive robustness analysis of the relationship between trust and growth by investigating a later time …. We find that when outliers (especially China) are removed, the trust-growth relationship is no longer robust. On average …