growth across the globe. In a large sample of countries, equality in the distribution of income as measured by the World Bank … and by The Standardized World Income Inequality Database are seen to be correlated with economic diversification, the rule … in the World Values Survey, and democracy, all of which are good for growth as reflected in the purchasing power of per …

Smith (2007) to test for long run restrictions in each country/region conditioning on the rest of the world. Bootstrapping …

around the world, pondering the question whether an abundance of natural resources is a blessing or a curse. Second, an … article discusses the experience of Norway, the world's third largest oil exporter. To date, Norway has appeared to be mostly …

that arise along the way. Special attention is given to Norway, the world's third largest oil exporter, and the role of …

to output series in the Penn World Tables over 1950-2000, as well as to Maddion's historical series over 1870 …