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

We examine impact of natural disasters on annual output and output growth in Vietnam. Using provincial data for primary … on the macro-economy. Results show that more lethal disasters result in lower output growth but that more costly …

disasters on a panel of 113 countries and its relationship with economic growth using data ranging from 1960 to 1996. The … rate of GDP growth in the period between 1960 and 1996. These effects range from a decrease of 0.9% to an increase of 0 …

the relationship between different measures of natural disaster impact and long-run economic growth. The sample is …

of low emissions compatible with sustainable levels of human welfare? With steady growth in human quality of life … of the first generation subject to achieving a given, constant rate of growth in all subsequent generations. Hence, our … paths entailing very low emissions in the future, positive rates of growth in QuoL are possible while the first generation …

that leads to the stabilization of concentrations at 450 ppm. (2) North and South converge to a path of sustained growth at … year while Souths rates of growth are markedly higher. The transition paths require a drastic reduction of the share of … education in South. Surprisingly, in order to sustain Norths utility growth rate, some output must be transferred from South to …

Maximin) criterion, and, second, the Sustainable Growth Optimization criterion, that maximizes the utility of the first … generation subject to a given future rate of growth. We apply these criteria to our calibrated model via a novel algorithm … reference ones. On the other hand, higher growth rates require substantial increases in the fraction of labor devoted to …