States. The paper classifies developing countries and discusses impediments to economic development and core elements of a … growth strategy. …

Historically, episodes of rapid growth are accompanied by significant structural change. In this paper we therefore aim … to quantify the extent to which factor accumulation induces structural change and productivity growth in industrializing … economies. To fix ideas we present an extension of Barro, Mankiw and Sala-i-Martin?s (1995) growth model that incorporates two …

economic development. The empirical analysis performed in the thesis, and summarised here, focuses on two mayor world trends in … modern economic development, namely increasing agglomeration and rising inequalities within countries. In particular, the … impact of both trends on long-run economic growth is studied, and results are discussed in light of relevant policy debate. …

at different stages of development when entering in a new catching-up cycle. Thus, the technological drivers of growth …This article studies the role of technology drivers in catching up at different stages of development. Countries can be …] can play different roles to accelerate the rate of growth and change their relative position in the leadership rank (win …