the performance of a country: in the first years the transition progress may affect growth in a positive way, but later it … becomes insignificant. This can explain some growth peculiarities previously remarked when transition countries were analysed … by means of long-run growth models. Using Barro and Levine-Renelt models the authors show that despite somewhat better …

This article uses “extreme-bound”-type analysis to revisit the determinants behind the widely differing economic growth … in Russian regions prior to the recent global financial crisis. Using data of regional growth in 1995–2006 for 77 Russian … regions, it examines the growth drivers for the phase of economic decline up to 1998 and for the period of strong growth …

Republics (CARs) since 1990. The focus is on the pattern of growth and structural change during the cycle of decline and …

Republics (CARs) since 1990. The focus is on the pattern of growth and structural change during the cycle of decline and …

. Previous literature and empirical work provides a strong consensus that growth reduces poverty, and several recent studies have … also found that the higher is income inequality within a country the more limited is the impact of growth on reducing … poverty. But in dynamic economies most economic growth comes from productivity growth, and few studies have tested the …

Chinese economy is likely to fare in the short- and long-term future. Is China's growth sustainable, or has China relied too … relation between investment, finance, and growth in China, <i>How China Grows</i> dismisses this concern. James Riedel, Jing … Jin, and Jian Gao argue that investment has not only been the engine of growth, but also the main source of technological …

, resulting in an average growth rate over the decade in excess of 6% per annum. This strong growth performance was accompanied by … the strong growth of the country. Finally, we examine rural poverty dynamics, presenting transition matrices of movements …

This paper studies how the effect of trade openness on economic growth depends on complementary reforms that help a … panel evidence on how the growth effect of openness depends on a variety of structural characteristics. For this purpose, we … use a non-linear growth regression specification that interacts a proxy of trade openness with proxies of educational …

Republics (CARs) since 1990. The focus is on the pattern of growth and structural change during the cycle of decline and …