economic development. The empirical analysis performed in the thesis, and summarised here, focuses on two mayor world trends in … modern economic development, namely increasing agglomeration and rising inequalities within countries. In particular, the …

This article studies the role of technology drivers in catching up at different stages of development. Countries can be … at different stages of development when entering in a new catching-up cycle. Thus, the technological drivers of growth … or lose the run). The empirical results show the building of a 'racing pattern' as countries climb up development stages …