changes and assesses the possible consequences of the changing fertility and mortality patterns. Much remains unknown about … demographic transformation in the past twenty years. On many dimensions of fertility and family formation, much of the region now … looks like Western Europe—below-replacement fertility rates, rising age at first marriage and first birth, and high and …

Starting from the celebrated neoclassical (Solow) model of economic growth, this paper discusses new ideas in growth … theory focussing on how to make sustained growth feasible. It first reviews models that broadened the notion of capital to … descriptive level because productivity growth is associated with either human or physical capital accumulation in a way that does …

The effect of computer technology on Finnish economic growth in 1983-96 is examined to shed light into the famous … productivity paradox. Using the neoclassical growth accounting framework, the contribution of computer hardware, software and labor … to gross and net output growth is assessed at aggregate level. The results suggest that a considerable amount of real …

countries in the period 1980-95 by applying an explicit model of economic growth, the augmented version of the neoclassical … (Solow) growth model. …

approach is also employed to rigorously examine the poverty-growth-inequality triangle. Finally, various simple but useful and …

The current paper demonstrates a dichotomy of the growth response to changes in the barter terms of trade, employing as …

they have played significant roles in the region’s slow and episodic economic growth. Results from cross …-country regressions covering 31 Sub-Saharan African countries suggest that growth in Africa is not simply a question of capital … accumulation, fertility rates, aid dependency, and stable macroeconomic environment. It is also about strengthening the capacity of …