necessarily mean that giving money to women is a good development policy. We show that depending on the nature of the production … function, targeting transfers to women may be beneficial or harmful to growth. In particular, such transfers are more likely to …

examine a commonly used empirical growth model, considering aid modality as well as different measures of political and fiscal …, while the growth impact of other aid types is not generally conditional on decentralization. We therefore conclude that …

development, characterized by the role of fossil fuels and by the progressive dominance of those with a higher energy and density … power. The challenge is how to make the rising demand for economic growth, mainly coming from developing and emerging … countries, compatible with the sustainability of the processes concerning the Earth system. Mainly by focusing on the energy-environment …

unimodal one, the evolution of the health distribution has preceded that of income, global inequality and poverty has decreased … indicates that global inequality would be underestimated if within-country inequality is not taken into account. Moreover …, global inequality and poverty would be substantially underestimated if the dependence between the income and health …

demands of public spending, this paper analyzes the tradeoff between growth and volatility of tax revenues in Latin America …. We use a two-step Engle-Granger-type model to estimate short-run and long-run elasticities, accounting for state …

growth through public employment in the enforcement of property rights, if the economic environment is sufficiently favorable …We study the link between public enforcement of property rights, innovation investments, and economic growth in an … endogenous growth framework with an expanding set of product varieties. We find that a government may assure positive equilibrium …