The paper examines the determinants of employment growth, drawing on data available across a sample of Caribbean … countries. To that end, the paper analyzes estimates of the employment-output elasticity and the response of employment growth … rate, the price of major exporting commodities, the number of tourists, and growth in major trading partners. The paper …

on economic growth. However, we find sizable welfare gains, 1 to 28 percent of permanent consumption though, consistent … with the literature, the gain in the economic growth is ambiguous, -0.2 to 0.7 percent. We apply a canonical growth model …

rapid impact of U.S. shocks on Mexican growth. …

Over the last thirty years Burundi's low economic growth has led to a significant decline in per capita GDP. The … explain a large part of the weak growth performance for the last thirty years. …

The paper reviews the “stylized facts” on economic growth gathered by Easterly and Levine in their 2001 joint paper and … illustrates some of the points made on the basis of data from the IMF’s World Economic Outlook on real growth and per capita GDP … since 1970. The data show that the growth performance of many poor countries has been disappointing: most of the “developing …