Small states, no different from large states in income and growth, should receive the same policy advice large states … openness pays off in growth …

This is the background paper for the productivity extension of the World Bank's Long-Term Growth Model (LTGM). Based on … Penn World Table, and assesses the pattern of productivity growth across regions and income groups over the same sample … growth is decomposed into the share explained by each of its main determinants, and the relationship between productivity …

A large literature documents the positive influence of a city's skill structure on its rate of economic growth. By … contrast, the effect of a city's age structure on its economic growth has been a hitherto largely neglected area of research … or seniors. The paper sets out the potential channels through which such differential growth may occur. Using data from a …

home country and those educated abroad. The authors discuss the growth implications of the brain drain from small countries …

Tourism is an important source of foreign exchange and employment across developing economies. A scant literature has … explored the relationship between tourism and the advent of the internet. This paper contributes to the tourism …-trade literature and studies the empirical relationship between international tourism and the adoption of digital technologies that …