examine the relationship with inflation and growth in developing countries. For an identical sample of observations from 73 … countries for 1984-2001, only the scheme based on parallel rates suggests a significant effect (negative) of floating on growth …. Floats that claim to be pegs, or have high exchange rate volatility, are the ones with lower growth. Hard pegs offer …

We compare the relationship between net capital inflows, real exchange rate movements and growth for twenty emerging … associated with faster growth, but in emerging markets depreciations depress growth, even outside crisis periods, and are closely …

, with fiscal policy volatility being a significant determinant of growth. The existence of a resource curse is confirmed, in … slower per capita GDP growth. There are no statistically significant differences between the effects of point-source and …

Growth rates of per capita GDP are depressed by civil conflict to a degree that reflects its severity. Only the more … least one year - have a significant negative growth effect. Post-conflict recovery of output is enhanced by aid flows but …

international tests, and growth. We take account of another fifteen years of growth and approximately twice as many test score … results. We treat the data first as a panel, relating growth only to test scores at earlier dates, and then as a cross …-section. In both cases we find the effect of schooling quality on growth to be statistically significant but substantially smaller …