can also be improvements of quality, productivity and dynamics of growth provoked by the release of new labour force. The …

Labor productivity levels in Bulgaria lag well behind that in the EU, weighing on the convergence process. Stronger … productivity growth would allow Bulgaria to close the income gap with the EU average more quickly and to alleviate the structural … productivity suggest that for Bulgaria closing the gap with EU standards in the areas of institutional and infrastructure quality …

theoretical and empirical perspectives on allocation of public resources to health vis-a-vis other sectors from the perspective of … reprioritization, one of the modalities for realizing fiscal space for health. Theory and cross-country empirical analyses do not … provide clear, cut explanations for the observed variations in government prioritization of health. Standard economic theory …

The usual models of endogenous growth treat knowledge codification as a byproduct of R&D and as costless. In contrast … to this, one can observe great efforts of private firms for the purposeful codification of knowledge. We incorporate … costly knowledge codification in an overlapping generations framework of endogenous growth and show that the steady …

Knowledge accumulation in the richer countries provides them with comparative advantages in higher productivity … products. The countries that import the higher productivity intermediate products and capital equipments produced in the richer … countries, however, derive benefits from knowledge spillovers. The empirical analysis in this paper shows that what type of …

Part of a larger research, this paper aims to point out several key elements of the productivity in the field of … paper starts with the framing in the context of the knowledge based economy and its requirements concerning scientific … approach on productivity. Customizations are made to educational services, followed by certain extensions of the issues …