This paper examines the growth-inflation nexus in Franc zone currency unions. It aims at estimating the inflation …

effects of data transparency on long-run growth for a sample of mostly developing economies. Data transparency is defined as … transitional growth to a higher potential level of gross domestic product per capita. The estimates indicate an elasticity of the …

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 …