economic development and growth is still in its infancy. In order to facilitate further necessary research on this topic, this …

Global climate change has a potentially large impact on economic growth but measuring their economic impact is subject … evaluation of climate change (MECC) model – to evaluate the impact of climate change on GNP growth. The model is based on five … basic indicators – (i) the climate change growth rates (αi); (ii) the national climate change vulnerability rate (ΩT); (iii …

Schlagwörter: Tropical cyclones; sectoral economic growth; environment and growth; natural disasters; input …This paper unravels the contemporaneous, lagged, and indirect effects of tropical cyclones on annual sectoral growth … significantly negative influence of tropi-cal cyclones on aggregate GDP growth can be attributed to contemporaneous neg …

This paper explores the implications of Unified Growth Theory for the origins of existing differences in income per … factors that have governed the pace of the transition from stagnation to growth and have thus contributed to contemporary … variation in economic development. It uncovers the forces that have sparked the emergence of multiple growth regimes and …

Growth dynamics are remarkably heterogeneous, in particular when one focuses on developing countries. Economic miracles … and failures are embedded within extended phases of either growth or decline. We propose a methodology and a taxonomy that … will characterize countries' growth patterns on the basis of the sequence of regimes they experience. In particular, 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 …