growth (i.e., aid is more effective in countries that are more vulnerable to external shocks). Recently an important debate … involve some volatility in aid flows, which then is not necessarily negative for growth. In this paper we examine to what … consider the effect of aid on income volatility and again find that aid is making growth more stable, while its volatility …

to measure the contributions of factors of production and technology to growth and estimate non-positive error terms that … these countries has narrowed substantially, supporting more rapid growth in China and India relative to Brazil. …

The Chilean development story of the last two to three decades is a mix of successes in the macro, growth, poverty and … trade fronts but also of failure in reducing chronic inequality of income and wealth. In addition, the current growth …

This paper reviews Brazil's growth performance over the last quarter of a century and discusses the main determinants … of a pick-up in growth since the mid-1990s. Emphasis is placed on the policy pay-offs associated with a consolidation of … macroeconomic adjustment, which is a pre-condition for sustained growth. Structural reform based on a liberalization of the county …

This paper examines the country-level dynamics of long-run growth in Africa between 1975 and 2005. We are primarily … interested in examining how growth has affected mobility and the distribution of income among countries. We analyse changes in …. Finally, we use a novel method of breaking up the growth histories of African economies into medium term spells of growth …