This article examines the effect of remittances on economic growth, highlighting the main transmission channels. Using … significant effect on economic growth. The results don’t allow drawing any definitive conclusion concerning the investment channel …, but confirm that the remittances speed up the accumulation of human capital, and thereby stimulate growth. The human …

perspective on Canada's productivity performance since the 1990s; the role of population growth in shaping productivity growth … growth and its contribution to economic growth since 1980 in Asia; and a review of two recent and comprehensive volumes on …

aggregate productivity in Canada; and the role of micro-institutions in fostering productivity growth and reducing poverty in …

In early 2003, the OECD released a major report entitled The Sources of Growth in OECD Countries. In the seventh and … Economic Advisers reviews the report. Baily notes that key findings include: the diversity in GDP per capita growth across OECD … countries, largely reflecting differences in labour utilization; the importance for growth of exposure to international trade …

Madrick. He argues that the growth of markets through trade, colonization, and domestic expansion was the predominate factor … in Western economic development. While technological innovation is necessary to growth, it is as much a consequence of … economic opportunity as it is a cause, and perhaps even more a follower of economic growth than a leader. …

about economic growth, productivity, wages and employment. Alternative attempts to consider richer interactions between …

, more generally, is the impact of education on the growth of productivity in France in the medium term? Neo-classical growth … theories stress the role of the accumulation of human capital in growth in developed countries. We estimate a medium …-term growth-accounting equation based on panel data for 21 OECD countries over the 1971-1998 period. An « error correction form …

article concludes that the book will be required reading for all economists interested in long-run economic growth trends and …

and the market, competing for the charge of maintaining security against social violence while both are major sources of … violence. It is so because the possibility of violence lies at the heart of every institution. To fight against it requires, in …