This paper offers the first systematic historical evidence on the role of a central actor in modern growth theory - the … engineers diverged in their growth trajectories over the next century. The results are supported by historical case studies from …

This paper reviews the determinants of Latin America's uneven growth based on an accounting decomposition that breaks … down countries' growth (relative to the world) into three trade-related channels: (i) an export pull measuring the traction … brings to light three regional growth dynamics: the first is centered on commodities and South America, the second on …

development and growth. Nowadays, in contrast, as a mode of analysis structuralism is distinctly unfashionable, and has been … superceded by newer endogenous growth theories, which build on earlier neoclassical contributions. Beyond broad endorsements of … whether endogenous growth theories been able to shed much light on the dynamics of growth. This paper revindicates the utility …

, and also unrelated to long-term economic growth; and (6) the provision of local public goods in the early twentieth …