sector. This discrepancy in technological proximity between sectors influences the differential productivity growth rates in …

short summary of some key problems of the HIPC Initiative. It then reviews critically the growth assumptions of HIPC debt …

This paper proposes an empirical framework that relates poverty reduction to production growth. We use the GGDC …/UNU-WIDER Economic Transformation Database to measure the contribution to growth of productivity improvements within sectors and … change and productivity growth in manufacturing. An attribution exercise suggests that structural change and agricultural …

. As in endogenous growth models, technological progress increases the number of varieties, raising average productivity …

Growth is endogenous in small open economies with substantial hidden or open unemployment, even under constant returns … to scale. Growth promoting policies, however, have implications for the balance of trade, and two instruments are needed … in order to achieve targets for both the growth rate and the balance of trade. The real exchange rate can serve as one of …

barriers played in China's growth and urbanization. We find that the primary drivers for real per capita GDP growth are … toward China's admission to the WTO it does not contribute much to real per capita GDP growth. During this transition process …

We set up a unified growth model with gender-specific differences in tastes for consumption, fertility, education of … education, and sluggish economic growth towards a state of low fertility, high education, and fast economic growth if the child …