that if annual GDP growth averages 7 percent and the employment elasticity is one-half, urban unemployment could double to … about 10 percent over the next three to four years. These pressures would be limited by stronger economic growth, especially …

obsolete and make business service outsourcing via cross-border trade more feasible. Although the (service-led) growth … to trade commercial- and specialized business services on long-run growth by applying a dynamic panel data approach to … account for unobserved country specific effects and endogenous growth determinants. The system GMM estimates validate that a …

It is frequently suggested that export diversification contributes to an acceleration of growth in developing countries … international competition. Vertical diversification out of primary into manufactured exports is also associated with growth since … vertical export diversification are positively correlated with economic growth. Yet there have been remarkably few empirical …

This paper examines the problem of optimal tax mix analytically in a two-sector growth model with transitional dynamics …

impact of these shocks on economic growth. This paper reviews the literature on macroeconomic vulnerability and finds that …

economic outcomes such as income growth, poverty and inequality indicators. Our analysis is based on microsimulations for eight …

of societal risk transfer mechanisms mitigating the effects disasters. Dynamic panel estimates using growth data from a …