affects the spatial distribution of economic activity, trade, migration, growth, and welfare. We assess quantitatively the … impact of migration and trade restrictions, energy taxes, and innovation subsidies. … firms locate on a hemisphere. Trade across locations is costly, firms innovate, and technology diffuses over space. Energy …

will face increasing challenges to remain globally competitive and maintain high living standards. Future growth will need … innovation leveraged off the country’s strong primary industry knowledge base. Continuing to raise skill levels and the … rate, which potentially harm economic activity. To improve the sustainability of growth, revenues from non …

We study the relationship between geography and growth. To do so, we first develop a dynamic spatial growth theory with … realistic geography. We characterize the model and its balanced growth path and propose a methodology to analyze equilibria with … different levels of migration frictions. We bring the model to the data for the whole world economy at a 1º times 1º geographic …

regions of the world that were relatively advanced in the pre-industrial period, but would start to industrialize about 150 … economies that in total account for about two-fifths of the world’s population in the mid-18th century. Our main findings …. Rather than being a key condition for subsequent growth, gains in market efficiency and growth might have occurred …

economic geography. Rather than employing institutional or free-market versus interventionist arguments to explain New Zealand … different viewpoint. If we adopt an economic geography perspective, there is nothing really paradoxical about New Zealand …

to tackle both the pandemic and the climate crisis. This report provides a framework that builds on the World Bank …'s climate-smart health care approach and integrates the World Bank's multiphase programmatic approach (MPA) into the global …

growth has been the subject of a heated debate in the economics literature. The purpose of this paper is to consider the … effect of the composition of economic activity on innovation. We test whether the specialization of economic activity within … together complementary activities, better promotes innovation. The evidence provides considerable support for the diversity …

This paper constructs a two-region endogenous growth model, where economic geography and public infrastructures play a … sense, the paper highlights a non-trivial political trade-off between growth and spatial distribution of economic activities … key role. The model allows us to analyse the contribution of different types of redistributive public policies on growth …