This description, produced within the CIRANO research program on productivity, seeks to unearth the innovative economic policies that could be adapted to the Quebec context. To better understand these innovations, the cases of Bavaria, Ireland, and New-Zealand were studied and lessons for Quebec...

This description, produced within the CIRANO research program on productivity, seeks to unearth the innovative economic policies that could be adapted to the Quebec context. To better understand these innovations, the case of Ireland was selected. Le but de cette vignette, faite dans le cadre du...

This paper tries to take into account two contrasted points of view that can be found the literature: the first one showing that financial development has a positive effect on economic growth, and the second one stressing the unfavourable effect of financial crisis. Our main assumption is that...

This paper tries to take into account two points of view of the litterature, the first one shows that financial development has positive effect on economic growth, and the second one stresses on the unfavourable effect of financial crisis. Our main assumption is that financial instability is...

This paper addresses the relationship between financial development and poverty, taking into account the direct link and the indirect link through economic growth. Using a panel of 81 developing countries over 1988-1997, we find evidence that financial development reduces the headcount poverty...

In this article, we present an overview of the theoretical and empirical literature on infrastructures and growth. We review the different approaches of this link, starting from the earlier themes of the Big Push and of exogenous growth, to the recent renewal of growth theories and of spatial...

This paper investigates the current state of growth accounting in China. The growing empirical literature on Chinese economic growth is based on several stylised facts which stress high but erratic long-term economic growth, strong accumulation of capital and rapid population growth. From these...

In this paper we systematize existing theoretical and empirical, often contradictory, knowledge of leading international economists and foreign institutions about reciprocal and causal relations between income distribution, economic growth and income poverty, in order to highlight the importance...

This chapter presents the methods and contributions of evolutionary approach to economic dynamics. First, we expose why economic dynamics can indeed be considered as evolutionary. Second, we discuss sources of diversity and selection mechanisms that drive these dynamics, in the context of...

his description, produced within the CIRANO research program on productivity, seeks to unearth the innovative economic policies that could be adapted to the Quebec context. To better understand these innovations, the case of Bavaria was selected. Le but de cette vignette, faite dans le cadre du...