supermarket value chains and how those firms' participation might stimulate growth through regional trade. Our results show that …The last two decades have seen rapid economic growth in Zambia and the proliferation of foreign supermarket chain … stores. However, this growth has translated into neither significant job creation nor significant poverty reduction …

There has been a revival of interest in the effect of risk on economic growth. We quantify both ex ante and ex post … remarkable long-running panel data set for rural households in Zimbabwe. We find that risk substantially reduces growth: in the …, the first micro-based estimate of the effect of shocks on growth. About two-thirds of the impact of risk is due to the ex …

This paper examines whether growth regressions should incorporate dualism and structural change. If there is a … factor productivity. The paper develops empirical growth models that allow for this effect in a more flexible way than … labour can explain a significant fraction of the international variation in TFP growth. …

indicators could support both endogenous and neoclassical growth theories in the convergence debate. This paper investigates … convergence in real per capita GDP and inequality adjusted human development in 38 African countries, disaggregated into 10 … is that the income component of the human development index moves slower than others in the convergence process and thus …

oil and gas, and the progressive catch up of Asian countries, leading to a convergence in terms of both GDP and CO2 …

growth phases. Results show that expansionary regimes are associated with convergence and positive correlation between growth …Growth dynamics are remarkably heterogeneous, in particular when one focuses on developing countries. Economic miracles … and failures are embedded within extended phases of either growth or decline. We propose a methodology and a taxonomy that …

importance of efficiency changes for economic growth. Using a sample of 26 OECD countries from 1965-90, we find convergence and …The empirical growth literature has focused on capital accumulation but largely ignored productivity growth. To address … this imbalance, we propose a methodology for analyzing productivity convergence based on frontier production functions. We …