This essay reviews the historical and ongoing role played by trade in sustained high growth and human development … argues that trade led economic growth must be prioritised in the post-2015 development agenda. … progress, and makes the case that the post-2015 development agenda should include considerations related to trade rules and …

economic growth. This research has relied on a variety of econometric techniques applied to large cross-country data sets …. Although the documented positive effects of both RER competitiveness and stability on growth appear to be robust, it is still …: the financial globalization channel and the tradable-led growth channel. I conclude that since these mechanisms are not …

development until countries reach upper-middle income, and only thereafter falls. This note quantifies the shape of the mobility …

economic development. The empirical analysis performed in the thesis, and summarised here, focuses on two mayor world trends in … modern economic development, namely increasing agglomeration and rising inequalities within countries. In particular, the … impact of both trends on long-run economic growth is studied, and results are discussed in light of relevant policy debate. …

that economic development programs to increase metropolitan job growth will have a progressive effect if the cost per job …This paper examines how a metropolitan area's job growth affects its income distribution. The research uses annual … metropolitan job growth increases real family income in the lowest income quintile by a significantly greater percentage than for …

Policy makers find it difficult to promote economic development through entrepreneurship and SMEs. In this paper we … development. The scholarly fields that have been interested in this, entrepreneurship economics and development economics, have … associated with entrepreneurship in development, and by proposing a new synthesis definition of entrepreneurship. …

, for example, the foundations of the human-capital based catch-up growth were laid very early. More broadly, we argue that … Korea, Japan, and China returned to the growth-path at different points of the 20th century, and this return was pre …-determined by their early numeracy development. …