Cross-country growth regressions have in recent years become a major growth industry. The most common purpose of this … work has been to investigate the determinants of economic growth. But it is also possible to use the existing growth data … to determine the extent to which policy choices help or hinder growth. This paper generates estimates of the net …

The stability of cyclical growth within the context of a model in Matsuyama (1999) is examined. It is shown that but … cyclical growth is derived. The growth enhancing property of 2-cycles are shown to be retained by any cycle; the results of … simulation exercises carried out are reported to show that for very wide range of parameter values, such cyclical growth paths …

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

This paper studies the impact of long-run productivity growth on job finding and separation rates, and thus the … faster growth to reduce unemployment by decreasing the separation rate and inducing job creation. We demonstrate that … growth on unemployment. Our quantitative analysis shows that our model increases the magnitude of the negative impact of …

, growth, instability and crises. We take a macroeconomic perspective and examine four channels of transmission of …

of the world. Since the late 1950s, its growth performance has been outstanding. Poverty incidence has declined …

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 …

Recent work has documented industrial output growth around the poor periphery from 1870 to the present, finding …% industrial growth club: Japan 1899, China 1900, the Philippines 1913, Taiwan 1914, Korea 1921, and India 1929. The Philippines …