) fractionalization on macroeconomic performance (that is, on per capita GDP growth). However, we find that dynamic ethnic … fractionalization is negatively related to growth (although this is still not the case for linguistic and religious fractionalization …

prime forces in the transition from stagnation to growth. The unprecedented increase in population growth during the early … fertility rates and population growth in various regions of the world, enabling economies to convert a larger share of the … fruits of factor accumulation and technological progress into growth of income per capita. This Paper examines various …

This paper develops a unified model of growth, population, and technological progress that is consistent with long …-term historical evidence. The economy endogenously evolves through three phases. In the Malthusian regime, population growth is … population, so that output per capita is stable around a constant level. In the post-Malthusian regime, the growth rates of …

This paper develops a growth model in which the endogenous evolution of technological progress and wage inequality is …

accumulation to regional growth. We model explicitly the political-economy process driving infrastructure investments; in doing so …

We claim that the stock market encourages business creation, innovation, and growth by allowing the recycling of …

We consider a neoclassical growth model with endogenous corruption. Corruption and wealth, which are co-determined in … corruption, and if indeed as suggested by a number of empirical studies corruption hampers growth, then how did rich countries …

much better than the Barro and Lee (1996) or Nehru et al (1995) series in a number of growth specifications. We interpret … the (lack of) relationship between educational investment and growth. Using our preferred empirical specification, we also …

accumulation of human capital during the transition from stagnation to growth. This is because greater longevity raises children … that longevity and health have had a minor effect, if any, on the transition from stagnation to growth via investment in …

According to the Washington Consensus, developing countries’ growth would benefit from a reduction in tariffs and other … barriers to trade. But a backlash against this view now suggests that trade policies have little or no impact on growth. If … treatment, liberalizing tariffs on imported capital and intermediate goods, did lead to faster GDP growth, and by a margin …