Solow's method of decomposing the growth in aggregate output into that part due to growth in inputs and that part due to technological progress has become the standard method for measuring technological progress, or growth in total factor productivity. This contribution outlines the method and...

This paper provides a survey and synthesis of econometric tools that have been employed to study economic growth. While these tools range across a variety of statistical methods, they are united in the common goals of first, identifying interesting contemporaneous patterns in growth data and...

This paper reexamines the ability of the Solow-type growth models to explain the pattern of cross-country growth rates. Recent authors, most notably Mankiw, Romer and Weil [1990], have argued that differences in national growth rates are compatible with the view that each country has access to a...