presents empirical studies related to economic growth and its determinants across countries, based on the use of data …

Economists have traditionally been interest in analyzing economic growth enhancing factors. Entrepreneurship is one of … distributive justice are affected. Usually economic growth and progress have been considered as synonymous, but following Holcombe … economic growth can generate problems, for example, inequality. These problems could be solved, for example through a …

Human capital as a critical engine of economic growth is present in many empirical and theoretical body of knowledge on … growth models and theory. However, the conclusion on its importance as a driver of economic growth remains inconclusive. The … human capital in the economic growth phenomena. Measuring human capital remains the main obstacle to assessing the …

We develop a tractable dynamic model of productivity growth and technology spillovers that is consistent with the … firms farther from the frontier try to imitate more productive technologies. The equilibrium choice leads to a balanced-growth …

Purpose This paper aims to test three hypotheses in city growth literature documenting the poverty reduction observed … sample and the author's improved econometric methods allows one to better understand and measure how important income growth … is for poverty reduction, the patterns of agglomeration and population growth in all Brazilian cities. Design …

In recent decades, economic growth in countries around the world has become increasingly dependent on the dynamism of …

major determinant of economic growth and productivity (Levine, Loayza and Beck 2000). Typically, paradigms are based on … that financial development and credit booms might not only support growth but jeopardize the whole economic system. While … there exists a huge literature on the finance growth nexus before the international financial crisis analyses on post …