, and continually increasing inequality are but three distinct possibilities. This paper asks if nation-state, macro factors …. Geographical factors are found to matter more than national ones; but both are important for explaining inequality dynamics. …

This paper reviews the cross-country record of economic growth, using as organizing framework how economic theory has … guided that empirical analysis. The paper argues that recent studies of economic growth—both empirical and theoretical …—distinguish from previous work in three distinct ways:1. An explicit focus on cross-country growth and development experiences; 2 …

converges towards egalitarian growth. Equality is stable but spatial inequality is needed to attain it. …This paper develops a model of economic growth and activity locating endogenously on a 3- dimensional featureless … global geography. The same economic forces influence simultaneously growth, convergence, and spatial agglomeration and …

countries. The same result is also obtained for the e¤ects of ICT and mass media on economic inequality,. However, ICT reveals … itself inequal- ity increasing for the developing country sample but inequality decreasing for the entire sample. Finally …

also suggest that green policies might be able to boost economic growth through induced knowledge spillovers. …

impact on short-term economic growth while avoiding the potentially disastrous reduction in GDP that could result from …

This paper studies cross-country patterns of economic growth from the viewpoint of income distribution dynamics. Such a … perspective raises new empirical and theoretical issues in growth analysis: the profound empirical regularity is an \emerging twin … factor inputs and technology for growth …

Theoretical models of growth and trade suggest that patterns of international specialization are dynamic and evolve …