This paper confirms recent evidence of a positive impact of aid on growth and widens the scope of evaluation to a range … of outcomes including proximate sources of growth (e.g., physical and human capital), indicators of social welfare (e … coherent and favorable pattern of results emerges. Aid has over the past forty years stimulated growth, promoted structural …

dynamic economy-wide models for Ethiopia and Uganda that capture both traditional aspects of the debate (growth linkages and … agglomeration is an important source of long-term growth and structural transformation, but that investing in cities does not … greatly reduce national poverty over the short-term. In this regard, agricultural growth is more effective, albeit with slower …

We conduct an extensive robustness analysis of the relationship between trust and growth by investigating a later time …. We find that when outliers (especially China) are removed, the trust-growth relationship is no longer robust. On average …

growth.We formulate two proposals that can make training more counter-cyclical and increase the amount of training. …

growth. Data from the World Values Survey enable us to investigate tolerance-growth relationships for 54 countries. We … tolerance toward homosexuals is negatively related to growth. For tolerance toward people of a different race, we do not find …

effects of its own investment, while treating other countries' investments as given. Average world growth is endogenous, as is …

, as well as studies of inequality and economic growth. The main conclusion is that there is little, if any, Swedish … of the welfare state. The recent favorable growth record of Sweden, including the period of financial stress (2008 …

The paper surveys the literature on the effects of finance on productivity growth. In both the theoretical and … growth. Focusing on the direct channels of growth, the author has found both positive and negative contribution of finance to … growth. Clearer positive effects emerge when considering growth channels related to productivity dynamics, with the estimated …

The view that profitability, not growth, is the driving force behind the firm performance, and unprofitable high growth … hypothesis that controlling for leverage, low growth-high profitability (profit) firms outperform high growth-low profitability … (growth) firms regarding both directions of their transition to an upper state and a lower state in subsequent periods. The …