the average rate of economic growth in the Middle East and North Africa has not only been significantly lower than that in …

increasing the level of any of the three policy variables -- education, governance, or openness --results in virtuous growth …

especially in populous countries, counteracted by catch-up growth in average incomes, particularly in China. Interpersonal …

start to decline, while others will experience higher labor force growth as populations and participation rates increase. A …

Was economic growth in East Asia jobless? This paper addresses this question using data from eight East Asian countries … growth and employment. The analysis suggests that growth was not jobless. However, there is considerable variation across … countries. Generally, the effect of growth on employment tends to magnify under more flexible hiring and firing rules. Yet even …

Production networks have been at the heart of the recent growth in trade among East Asian countries. Fragmentation … significantly to growth in East Asia, they also breed vulnerabilities. They have not automatically led to technology spillovers and …

global value chains as crucial drivers of productivity growth …

This paper offers the first evidence on the prevalence of a central actor in modern growth theory?the engineer. Using … countries with similar levels of income in 1900, but ten fold differences in engineering density diverged in their growth …