policymakers' beliefs about the impact of capital account liberalization on growth, under the 'Mundell's trilemma constraint. The …

Does a country's level of unemployment have an impact on the long-run growth rate? Incorporating unemployment into a … generalised augmented Solow-type growth model, yields some answers to this question. In particular, we show that the impact of … unemployment on productivity growth heavily depends on the influence of human capital in the production function. In the …

Current empirical growth models limit the determinants of country growth to geographic, economic, and institutional … different types of conflict affect country growth rates? It finds that wars slow the economy. Estimates indicate that civil war … reduces annual growth by .01 to .13 percentage points, and high-intensity interstate conflict reduces annual growth by .18 to …

economic growth on many social phenomena, they may, in fact, merely reflect historical experience, that is, similar leader … independent. The oft-reported significant cross-country relationships of many variables to economic growth may merely demonstrate … section ; time series ; economic growth ; life expectancy ; diffusion …

institutions are highly malleable even in advanced economies, while sustained economic growth could well be deep rooted in … individual beliefs, social norms and informal cultural organizations. -- institutions ; economic growth ; development …

remittances and growth has not been adequately studied. This paper studies one of the links between remittances and growth, in …-constructed dataset for remittances covering about 100 developing countries, we find that remittances boost growth in countries with less … mostly pro-cyclical. -- remittances ; financial development ; growth …