The sources of economic growth and development have been puzzling economists from the modern dawn of the profession …. While the Solow-Swan neo-classical model dominated research on growth in the 1960s and 1970s, the 1980s saw the emergence of … growth theories that disputed, largely on theoretical grounds, the Solow-Swan assumptions and conclusions. In this paper, we …

This paper studies the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) on national economic growth with the help of GMM … panel regressions. Effects on productivity growth, capital and labor inputs as well as innovation activities are …

An influential paper by Berg et al., 'Redistribution, inequality, and growth: new evidence', uses the SWIID data to … examine the impact of inequality and redistribution on growth in both developing and developed countries. It finds that while … inequality is harmful for growth, redistribution does not hamper growth. This comment demonstrates that the redistribution and …

about the evolution and dynamics of output growth? Largely, no. Second, the existence and magnitude of output externalities …

Externalities play a central role in most theories of economic growth. We argue that international externalities, in … particular, are essential for explaining a number of empirical regularities about growth and development. Foremost among these is … that many countries appear to share a common long run growth rate despite persistently different rates of investment in …

spillover into domestic production. -- Natural disasters ; growth …