Research on economic growth suggests that the era of colonization has had an impact on the levels of economic …

Using an extension of Lucas¡¯ model of endogenous growth with education externality, we show that an environmental tax … may increase growth. This is because the tax makes physical capital accumulation less attractive, thereby correcting for …

The aim of this paper is to study the nature of the relationship between energy consumption and economic growth in … percentage increase in oil products consumption increases economic growth by around 1.1%. This result confirms the intuition that … an economic policy aimed at improving energy supply will necessarily have a positive impact on economic growth. On the …

mineral stocks on public revenues, labour movements between sectors, and economic growth in an attempt to elucidate the poor …

Using an extension of Lucas' model of endogenous growth with education externality, we show that an environmental tax … may increase growth. This is because the tax makes physical capital accumulation less attractive, thereby correcting for …

of Slow Growth in African Economies." The paper advises that despite decades of slow growth in Africa there should be … average non-African developing economy its growth rate from 1965 to 1990 would have almost doubled. My attempt to purely … replicate this conclusion fails. Adopting other developing country policies would have increased African growth, but by only 0 …

economic growth. The theoretical literature has treated these two channels separately, with natural resources affecting growth … that in turn affect growth. Whether natural resources stimulate growth or induce a poverty-trap crucially depends on … inequality and higher cost of political participation, a high-growth and a poverty-trap equilibrium co-exist even with abundant …