Europe aims at combining income growth with improvements in social cohesion as measured by income and health … growth and the income responsiveness of health. We investigate whether these conditions held in Europe in the nineties using … with income, and (ii) that income growth was not pro-rich in most EU countries, resulting in little or no reductions in …

There has been a revival of interest in the effect of risk on economic growth. We quantify both ex ante and ex post … remarkable long-running panel data set for rural households in Zimbabwe. We find that risk substantially reduces growth: in the …, the first micro-based estimate of the effect of shocks on growth. About two-thirds of the impact of risk is due to the ex …

firm growth, survival, size and age. While these studies have resulted in findings that aresufficiently consistent as to … therelationships between firm age and size on the one hand, and survival and growth on the other may, infact, not be the same in …. The resultssuggest that the most fundamental relationships between firm size, age, survival and growth arestrikingly …