relationship between human capital and growth, using a sample of 23 subsaharian African countries and six time periods between 1980 … suggest that the contribution of human capital to growth depends on the level of commercial opening. The result could be … therefore likely to influence the rate of growth. (Full text in french) …

developments assesses whether an acceleration of productivity growth, the touchstone of the New Economy, is likely to occur in … institutional changes such as product and labour market deregulation have served as catalysts for growth. He then looks at the role …

This paper gives a conceptual overview of the openness and vulnerability, sharing which in both cases respectively … depends on economic policy and on structural factors, independent from policy. It focuses on openness policy, proposed to be … measured by the residual of an openness function estimated only from structural factors, and on structural vulnerability …

This paper studies how financial development affects the relation between average growth and growth volatility through … liquidity crises. Then with this mechanism, we show in a macro framework that the relation between average growth and growth … volatility is more likely to be negative in developing countries, but more likely to be positive in developed economies. Finally …

the Bank of Canada compares sources of recent productivity growth in Canada and the United States. Macklem sees aggregate … labour productivity growth in Canada advancing at around a 2 per cent average annual rate in the medium term. This view is … spillovers from rapid and sustained U.S. productivity growth, and the significant gap between Canadian and U.S. productivity …

(PHE) and economic growth and secondly the impact of public health expenditure on health outcomes in terms of child … improvement in life expectancy. Improvements in life expectancy over the long term have a positive impact on economic growth …. Indeed, there is a unidirectional causality from PHE to growth. Moreover, an increase in PHE increases the primary school …