According to recent UN projections more than 50 percent of the growth in world population over the next half century … will be due to population growth in Africa. Given this, any policy that influences African demography will have a … fertility and education decisions, and hence, population growth in Africa. We present the results from different scenarios for …

accounts for a significant part of aggregate growth.We explore the differences in patterns and causes of manufacturing between …

1999-2004 and measure innovation performance by the (value-adjusted) number of patent applications at the European Patent … firms as well as immobile workers on the innovation performance of their employer. Our main result is that mobile university … scientists contribute substantially more to innovation than R&D workers hired from other firms who, in turn, contribute slightly …

enterprises, IKC growth has flowed more toward higher-tech, export-oriented industries, while among foreign invested enterprises …

structure of endogenous growth models with horizontal as well as vertical innovation and emphasizing important implications for … economic growth and development. In this chapter we survey important contributions in the field by focussing on the basic … growth policy. We address issues like the scale effect problem, directed technological change to understand the evolution of …

capital is positively influenced by the size of the R&D sector, sheds new light on innovation and growth as well as income …The innovative approach presented introduces a modified neoclassical growth model which includes a new bias of … technological progress in a quasi-endogenous growth model in which part of labor is used in the research & development sector. The …

This paper develops a long-run growth model for a major oil exporting economy and derives conditions under which oil … steadily over the past three decades, the theory suggests that the effect of oil income on the economy's steady state growth …

its causal relationships with economic growth and openness by using time series data (1971-2006) from China (an emerging … according to openness and economic growth do not show uniform results across the countries. Depending on the national …

This paper develops a long run growth model for a major oil exporting economy and derives conditions under which oil … effects of oil exports are taken into account, the estimates support output growth convergence between Iran and the rest of …