growth. On average, cities recovered their pre-Plague populations within two centuries. In addition, aggregate convergence …

Cross-country regressions suggest that urbanization and FDI are important drivers of growth. However, it is not clear … that primacy eventually hurts growth performance. Since it is tough to interpret cross-country growth regressions, we … growth and unbundling spatial lags matters. Robustness is verified by re-estimating our regressions with fixed effects and …

In the first part of the paper we look at economic growth in Africa over the past three decades. We divide the past …. Although the improved growth performance has helped to improve human development and reduce poverty, poverty levels remain high … growth rates for Africa and several individual countries. We use the Hodrick-Prescott filter with different values for the …

ominous messages for using equitable growth in fighting poverty. Rapid growing developing economies need to adopt appropriate …High income growth in many countries in East Asia and the Middle East has been accompanied by increasing income … interrelationships between inequality and economic growth. This paper develops a simple model to establish that the change in income …

widely recognized global Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model. Results show a marginal increase in output growth for … India and Japan in 2020 after tariff reduction compared to Business as Usual (BAU) scenario. A marginal export growth is …

-group Bertrand (SGB). Growth in the economy is the experiment used to compare these specifications. While the overall effects of … growth on welfare are qualitatively similar, the gains to initially small economies are much larger under either small …