We investigate the spatial distribution of TFP growth rates using exploratory spatial data analysis and other spatial … spatial autocorrelation in TFP growth rates, indicating that high and low values tend to be clustered in space. We also find … indicative of a tendency towards clustering over time, a conclusion reinforced by our finding of two clusters of high TFP growth …

and sanitation. Building on previous evidence on urban concentration and economic growth, in this paper we analyse … urban environment - in particular the quality of urban infrastructure - strongly determine the growth-enhancing benefits of … urban concentration (something that previous studies on urban concentration and economic growth have not considered …

We contribute to the role of telecommunications infrastructure on economic growth in three ways. We separately examine … growth. We find that mobile services contribute much more to growth but that the effect diminishes as the provincial economy …

Education is thought to be central to economic development. Yet, relatively little is known about how developing …

In this paper we study the impact of diversity on regional growth by extending the existing literature in such that we … evidence that regions with higher degrees of human capital diversity exhibit higher GDP-per-capita and employment growth, as … diversification encourage knowledge spillover and therefore promote regional growth mainly focused on the diversity of the regional …

theoretical models offered by M. Berliant and M. Fujita with respect to the impact of cultural diversity on economic growth and … localized externalities. Preliminary evaluation of correlation between growth of income, wages and increase in the share of … correlation is only observed between growth of income, wages and share of international migration. Econometric estimation of the …

non-R&D effects is significant for a number of diffffrent issues. First, the results show a sizable impact on TFP growth …

In this paper, we study maximizing long-run economic growth trade-off in monetary and fiscal policies in an endogenous … growth model with transaction costs. We show that both monetary and fiscal policies are subject to threshold effects, a … expenditures, maximizing-growth government must choose relatively high seigniorage (respectively income taxation), if ?tax evasion …

Earlier literature on economic growth models identified Africa specific determinates of economic growth. In standard … models of economic growth Africa dummies were significant. A more resent strand of literature attributes the significance of … Africa dummies to inappropriate estimation techniques. If growth models were appropriately estimated, the Africa dummy would …