vulnerability of countries to global shocks and to reach growth and poverty reduction goals. Investments in girls and women need to … stresses and harness demographic opportunities for growth. This is the case because the fate of women and girls, especially in …

The growth experience of India and other South Asian countries suggests that a “Service Revolution”—rapid income growth … services be a driver of sustained growth, job creation, and poverty reduction? What kind of policies and institutions do …, job creation, gender equality, and poverty reduction led by services—is now possible. What is a service revolution? Can …

growth model with endogenous fertility. I propose a redistribution scheme and show that refugee resettlement from a more … resettlement policy to stimulate human capital accumulation and hence economic growth in both economies. …

economy, namely an increase in the share of government spending in GDP and an increase in female labour force participation …. This paper suggests that these two changes are causally related. We develop a growth model where the structure of the … economy is endogenous so that participation in market activities and government size are causally related. Economic growth and …

growth model with endogenous fertility. I propose a redistribution scheme and show that refugee resettlement from a more … resettlement policy to stimulate human capital accumulation and hence economic growth in both economies. …

We study the relationship between geography and growth. To do so, we first develop a dynamic spatial growth theory with … realistic geography. We characterize the model and its balanced growth path and propose a methodology to analyze equilibria with …

Africa’s precrisis growth and poverty reduction was the result of increased external resources, a buoyant global … growth are good. Additional resources and further policy reforms could launch the continent on a path of sustained growth and … poverty reduction. …