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 … African countries to assimilate and effectively use knowledge and technology. Contrary to the views held by many analysts, the …

transmission mechanisms, such as greater openness to trade and foreign investment, economic growth, effects on income distribution …, technology transfer and labour migration, through which the process of globalization affects different dimensions of poverty in … the developing world. …

theory focussing on how to make sustained growth feasible. It first reviews models that broadened the notion of capital to … include human capital and the state of technology. These extensions of the neoclassical theory are not very satisfying at a …Starting from the celebrated neoclassical (Solow) model of economic growth, this paper discusses new ideas in growth …

The effect of computer technology on Finnish economic growth in 1983-96 is examined to shed light into the famous … growth can be attributed to computers. Almost eight per cent of the net growth can be attributed to information technology … productivity paradox. Using the neoclassical growth accounting framework, the contribution of computer hardware, software and labor …

, educa tion, and skills for consumption (rather than production)-can importantly affect patterns of economic growth and …

implications of these world commodity price changes for living standards of poor people. Second, a novel ‘backcasting’ approach … 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 …