The aim of this paper is to study the nature of the relationship between energy consumption and economic growth in … percentage increase in oil products consumption increases economic growth by around 1.1%. This result confirms the intuition that … an economic policy aimed at improving energy supply will necessarily have a positive impact on economic growth. On the …

economic growth (i.e. that aid is more effective in countries which are more vulnerable to external shocks). Recently an … may involve some volatility in aid flows, which then is not necessarily negative for growth. In this paper the authors … to which aid can respond, they consider the effect of aid on income volatility and again find that aid is making growth …

indicators of MFP growth by industry shows that the decline of productivity is particularly marked in sectors such as … 1990s (around notably the Internet), the OECD trend productivity growth is not likely to resume at its end-1990s level …This paper brings together the latest data and OECD productivity indicators in different areas with the aim of …

This article investigates the contribution of regions to aggregate growth. We find a great degree of heterogeneity in …). The regional contributions to aggregate growth follow a power law, with a coefficient around 1.2 (in absolute terms). This … implies that Few-Large ( FL) regions contribute disproportionately to aggregate growth whereas Many-Small ( MS) individual …