growth rate of the economy and the agricultural sector, extends the analysis of the fiscal stimulus and its effects, and … potential growth rate of economy and that of agriculture to achieve a non-inflationary, high growth trajectory for the country …. The fiscal stimulus effects indicate the importance of fiscal consolidation efforts to sustain high growth. The trade …

Historically, episodes of rapid growth are accompanied by significant structural change. In this paper we therefore aim … to quantify the extent to which factor accumulation induces structural change and productivity growth in industrializing … economies. To fix ideas we present an extension of Barro, Mankiw and Sala-i-Martin?s (1995) growth model that incorporates two …

development. …

-faring and airborne transportation technologies, to examine its impact on the course of economic development across the globe … effect on the process of development and contributed to the contemporary variation in the standard of living across countries. …

beneficial in early stages of development, generated in later stages a hurdle for human capital accumulation and economic growth … from an agrarian to an industrial economy generating diverging growth patterns across countries. Land abundance, which was … of industrialization affected the transition to modern growth and has brought about changes in the ranking of countries …

, to enhance countries' growth. I argue that the relationship between stock markets and growth is exaggerated and that the … simple act of opening a formal stock market is not a good predictor of whether a country will experience economic growth …. While it is possible that in some instances opening a stock market can lead to increased growth, I do not find any evidence …

economic growth. This research has relied on a variety of econometric techniques applied to large cross-country data sets …. Although the documented positive effects of both RER competitiveness and stability on growth appear to be robust, it is still …: the financial globalization channel and the tradable-led growth channel. I conclude that since these mechanisms are not …

. Nevertheless, in the standard neoclassical growth model, these barriers have only have small effects on per capita incomes. We … level. Moreover, we show that the removal of these barriers can produce several decades of rapid growth, reminiscent of … economic growth miracles. …