) how to deal with jobless growth in manufacturing, (vii) creating adequate systems of financial intermediation, and (viii …

We provide a growth model with imported resources and foreign debt accumulation providing the basis for two questions … and regression equations. 1) Under what conditions do growth rates of per capita income remain positive if imported inputs … following results. Oil price growth rates have only a marginal impact on those of GDP per capita as long as they exceed …

This paper provides an analytic review of selected contributions to the study of institutions and economic growth. We … review the contributions to the study of institutional determinants of long-run growth by Engerman and Sokoloff, and Acemoglu … steps towards bridging the gap between the study of long-run and short-run growth performances. In addition, we review two …

In this paper we show the benefits of regional connectivity and specialization to growth. Starting with one region we … speed up growth. The results also show a strong positive effect of reductions in the cost of making new connections. This … has a significant impact on both the steady state growth rate and on transitional growth, while significantly reducing the …

The sign of worker remittances in growth regressions is heavily disputed in the literature. Comparing two growth …

Remittances may have an impact on economic growth through channels to physical and human capital. We estimate two … per capita when compared to the counterfactual of having no remittances. Their ratio of the steady-state growth rates with …

We derive the central differential equation of the neoclassical growth model for the case of a CES (constant elasticity …-run deviations from this long-run path, which are characterized by non-sustainable explosive debt growth. These phases are …/3 without), a growth rate of labour-augmenting technical change of 1.65% (1.5%) and a corresponding initial level of labour …

We show empirically that aid given to poor developing countries enhances growth and reduces emigration once several … flows as a share of the labour force and GDP per capita growth and also for all their regressors including remittances and … immigration, savings, public expenditure on education and growth, but reduce tax revenues, all as a share of GDP. Net immigration …

institutional characteristics differ across countries with different levels of income and rates of growth. We describe a country … levels; however, we find no such evidence on growth rates. We find mixed evidence for a relationship between institutions and … growth volatility. …

The impact of migration and worker remittances on literacy, accumulation of capital and growth is analyzed for a panel … force growth, development aid and GDP per capita growth, using dynamic panel data methods. The estimated equations are then … that emigration lowers savings and labour force growth. The total effect of net migration on GDP per capita is to increase …