The literature on the aid?growth relationship has recently been reinvigorated through the application of growth … equations that seek to explain growth as a function of institutions, policies and aid. This approach has generally led to the … conclusion that aid has contributed to growth, albeit with decreasing returns. Some studies have found that there is only a …

This paper investigates the role of aid in mitigating the adverse effects of commodity export price shocks on growth in … exchange rate substantially lower the adverse growth effect of shocks. While the mitigating effect of aid is significant in … commodity-dependent countries. Using a large cross-country dataset, we find that negative shocks matter for short-term growth …

, and universal health care, and the management of economic growth. There is an increasing recognition that the achievement … of social goals is essential to environmental sustainability. Regarding growth, while earlier macroeconomic theorists … generally assumed that growth was good, ecological economists such as Herman Daly have suggested that growth should be limited …

The literature on foreign direct investment (FDI) provides evidence on the relation from FDI to growth in the presence … of FDI with its determinants and includes it in the list of factors that influence growth. Discontinuities are measured … from the same period of time show that growth is negatively affected by FDI discontinuities and as the regressions control …

Surveys theories of regional growth, factor mobility, clustering, industrial restructuring, learning regions, and …

Surveys theories of regional growth, factor mobility, clustering, industrial restructuring, learning regions, and …

growth, shocking the world as they emerged as “Baltic Tigers” at the turn of the century. Russia adopted a flat tax regime in … of the flat tax rate on the Baltic countries’ economic growth remains debated.Though there is clearly timing a … correlation between the Baltic States’ economic  growth and the implementation of the flat tax, the current economic analysis on …

This paper considers an endogenous growth model with productive government spending in which overlapping generations of …, removing all inefficiencies and cycles. However, a likely outcome is that government size is too high relative to the growth …