This paper offers the first systematic historical evidence on the role of a central actor in modern growth theory - the … engineers diverged in their growth trajectories over the next century. The results are supported by historical case studies from …

Externalities play a central role in most theories of economic growth. We argue that international externalities, in … particular, are essential for explaining a number of empirical regularities about growth and development. Foremost among these is … that many countries appear to share a common long run growth rate despite persistently different rates of investment in …

countries, the financial openness policy in the Non-GCC countries have reduced the benefits of FDI on growth, this finding is …

estimation, the paper estimates a growth model using the difference in the log of GDPC between periods t and t+1. Buttressed by … sufficient empirical evidence, the paper's findings corroborate that the Arab Spring had been negatively associated with growth …