Slower growth, or even a decline, of the labour force and an increase in old-age dependency will slow down the growth of aggregrate output and output per capita in many developed countries. However, a major question is whether there is any systematic link between demographics and the...

The post-war growth experiences of developing countries lead to the idea that income equality may accelerate economic growth. In this paper, a theoretical model showed the possibility that equality makes a country human-capital abundant, which enables industrialization and higher economic...

This paper explains adverse international capital flows and economic growth using a model with asymmetric information in the capital market. The capital markets in developing countries are found to suffer more severely from asymmetric information than those in developed ones, which results in a...