use and ecosystem management; growth and environmental resources; economic and evolutionary progress; and individual …

This paper addresses heterogeneity in determinants of economic growth in a data-driven way. Instead of defining groups … of countries with different growth characteristics a priori, based on, for example, geographical location, we use a … growth determinants. Applying this approach to an annual unbalanced panel of 59 countries in Asia, Latin and Middle America …

Foreign aid’s effectiveness in promoting economic growth remains mired in controversy.We examine the impact of the … volatility of aid on economic growth, controlling for the level of aid. A four-year panel analysis is conducted encompassing 155 … economic growth. Correspondingly, volatility of aid flows is found to be negatively related to growth. We found no significant …

misspecifications resulting from the omission of spatial linkages in standard empirical models of economic growth. Our dataset consists … of TFP estimates for 73 countries over the period 1960-2000, and we find that TFP growth rates and levels are positively … the Nelson and Phelps (1966) model shows that the impact of being located close to a country with high TFP growth rates is …

In this note we show that the standard, loglinear growth regression specification is consistent with one and only one …