empirically revisit the traditional financial development proxies relationship with economic growth after world's second greatest …

introducing the potato in the Old World. Our results highlight the interplay between technological change, public health, and …The historical diffusion of potatoes to the Old World is an excellent example of how technological innovation … contributes to the socioeconomic growth (Nunn and Qian, 2011). On the other hand poor health conditions might offset the benefits …

This paper proposes the hypothesis that genetic distance to the health frontier influences population health outcomes …. Evidence from a world sample suggests that genetic distance, interpreted as long-term cultural and biological divergence, is an … important factor in understanding health inequalities across countries. In particular, the paper documents a remarkably robust …

How far is the world away from ensuring that every child obtains the basic skills needed to be internationally … competitive? And what would accomplishing this mean for world development? Based on the micro data of international and regional … skills for 159 countries that cover 98.1% of world population and 99.4% of world GDP. We find that at least two-thirds of the …

, it is possible to identify a variety of channels through which trade affects the evolution of world income and its …

Competitiveness Index, a renowned measure of the competitiveness of national economies according to the methodology of the World …

fossil fuels (e.g. starting with coal in the UK in the 17th century, and continuing in the rest of the world with coal and …