Investigates the role of women workers in the manufacturing sector in general, and its sub-sectors in particular, from …

, microsaving and microinsurance, making this range of financial services a key-tool for economic growth of many developing … economic growth and the environment. After exploring the relationship between microfinance and SD in developing areas, this …

, microsaving and microinsurance, making this range of financial services a key-tool for economic growth of many developing … economic growth and the environment. After exploring the relationship between microfinance and SD in developing areas, this …

, environmental quality eventually falls as economic growth continues, although ongoing innovation could change that conclusion. In …

The paper reviews the “stylized facts” on economic growth gathered by Easterly and Levine in their 2001 joint paper and … illustrates some of the points made on the basis of data from the IMF’s World Economic Outlook on real growth and per capita GDP … since 1970. The data show that the growth performance of many poor countries has been disappointing: most of the “developing …

While production of ICT equipment plays a subordinate role for economic growth in most of these countries, they do … benefit from capital deepening arising from falling prices of ICT equipment. Adapting established growth accounting approaches … to the data environment of low-income countries, we quantify the growth impacts of absorption of ICT equipment, finding …

of growth slowdowns, which are identified as large sudden and sustained deviations from the growth path predicted by a …

economic growth in a sample of African countries from 1988 to 2007. Further, we investigate whether financial inclusion is one … of the channels through which mobile phone development influences economic growth. In estimating the impact of ICT on … economic growth, we use a wide range of ICT indicators, including mobile and fixed telephone penetration rates and the cost of …

risk of conflict recurrence as an explanatory variable in the growth regression, because post-conflict countries have a …