Schlagwörter: Tropical cyclones; sectoral economic growth; environment and growth; natural disasters; input …This paper unravels the contemporaneous, lagged, and indirect effects of tropical cyclones on annual sectoral growth … significantly negative influence of tropi-cal cyclones on aggregate GDP growth can be attributed to contemporaneous neg …

adjustment mechanisms economies retain. The theoretical literature on growth implications of earthquakes relies on the same … during recovery from the destructive effects of an earthquake. To this end, we employ a specific growth environment, namely …

have little arable land. There is empirical evidence to suggest that these factors are related to income growth …

This paper studies the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) on national economic growth with the help of GMM … panel regressions. Effects on productivity growth, capital and labor inputs as well as innovation activities are …

One of the most interesting facts about the growth of developed nations, especially of the US growth, in the last three … decades is significant growth of the ratio of the wage of skilled labor to that of unskilled labor. At the same time, existing … growth which is common to all developed countries and which can explain the greatest part of education cost ratio increase in …

conflicts, and output growth performance over the last few centuries. By analyzing political responses to the distributional …

This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on economic growth in Sierra Leone, a country where an empirical … significant contribution in promoting economic growth in the country. This finding is found to be robust across approaches and … specifications. Whilst aid may have been associated with improvement in economic growth in the country, its impact during the period …