an increase in military spending as a percent of GDP(and a share of total government expenditure). Our estimations reveal …

.6 percentage point of GDP in countries where energy subsidies were 1 percentage point of GDP higher. Moreover, we find that the …

This paper evaluates the performance of Consensus Forecasts of GDP growth for industrialized and developing countries …

elasticities on a sample of 72 countries for real GDP and 28 countries for oil GDP over 6 years, I derive oil and non-oil GDP … growth for Yemen. I show that real GDP contracted by a cumulative 24 percent over 2015-17 against 50 percent according to …

-country variations in countries' real GDP per capita to examine this issue for a large sample of advanced and developing countries. Our … increase in real GDP per capita, on average, reduces the Gini coefficient by around 0.08 percentage points, a result that is …

In this paper we propose a novel approach to obtain the predictive density of global GDP growth. It hinges upon a … bottom-up probabilistic model that estimates and combines single countries' predictive GDP growth densities, taking into … aggregate individual countries' densities into a world aggregate while preserving the non-i.i.d. nature of the global GDP growth …

variety relative to the United States helps to explain relative per capita GDP levels. The empirical work relies upon some …