external capital and have greater growth opportunities. Also, higher accountability and lower income inequality are associated …

firm growth, survival, size and age. While these studies have resulted in findings that are sufficiently consistent as to … relationships between firm age and size on the one hand, and survival and growth on the other may, in fact, not be the same in … services. The results suggest that the most fundamental relationships between firm size, age, survival and growth are …

This paper puts forward a method to estimate average economic growth, and its associated confidence bounds, which does …

Growth in the Millennium</I>, 2005, Resources for the Future, Washington DC, 177-97.<P> …

time and/or countries. We demonstrate this argument by identifying structural breaks in growth regressions estimated with …-oriented reforms. We find robust evidence that the pattern of growth in transition has changed at least two times, yielding thus three … different models of growth associated with different stages of reform. The speed with which individual countries progress …

Replication of two recent studies of growth determinants shows that results are sensitive to the choice of data from … which growth rates are calculated, especially with respect to whether economic convergence has occurred. Previous warnings … (growth rates) have been largely ignored at the cost of possibly contaminating the conclusions. …

Measured rates of growth in real per capita income differ drastically depending on the data source. This phenomenon …. Replication of several recent studies of growth determinants shows that results are sensitive in important ways to the choice of …-country patterns over time (growth rates) have been largely ignored at the cost of possibly contaminating the conclusions. …

a new macro-policy framework) were driven by the drastic growth slowdown and redemocratization of the 1980s. We argue …

possible implications of this key fact by surveying and adapting literature on growth and inequality. I focus especially on the …