Since the industrial revolution, advances in science and technology have continuously accounted for most of the growth and wealth accumulation in leading industrialized economies. In recent years, the contribution of technological progress to growth and welfare improvement has increased even...

The benefits from growth following devaluation of the CFA franc in Burkina Faso in 1994 were undermined by increasing income inequality. Factors that fed that growth in income inequality: disparities in wages and in educational attainment and unequal access to productive assets