contribution of total factor productivity (TFP) to growth is largely responsible for the slowdown in trend growth in many SMICs …, which highlights the need for policy actions to reinvigorate productivity growth. This paper explores the question of what … kind of structural policies could boost productivity growth in SMICs and the political economy factors that may be …

The need to revive Euro area growth highlights the importance of the evolution of domestic and external demand in the …

The small states of the Asia and Pacific region face unique challenges in raising their growth potential and living … often face more limited policy tools, policies do matter and can further help build resilience and raise potential growth … improve the composition of public spending in order to foster inclusive growth. Regional solutions should also continue to be …

become a main engine of growth in the United States, we find that U.S. manufacturing exports could provide nonnegligible … growth opportunities going forward. …

The inefficiency of the Italian judicial system has contributed to reduced investments, slow growth and a difficult …

find no evidence of any particular debt threshold above which medium-term growth prospects are dramatically compromised …. Furthermore, we find the debt trajectory can be as important as the debt level in understanding future growth prospects, since …

growth, real wages and the supply of public services. Senegal does not need, however, to undertake such difficult fiscal …

maintaining high public investment levels. We use the model of public investment, growth, and debt sustainability in Buffie et al …

out strong programs of macroeconomic adjustment and structural reforms designed to promote growth and reduce poverty. Now … that the HIPC Initiative is nearly completed, this paper investigates whether the initiative managed to spur growth, either … effects of the HIPC Initiative on growth. Such evidence suggests that the HIPC Initiative and MDRI have helped HIPC …