--88 period growth has been faster for dependencies than for colonies; for British and French colonies than for Portuguese …We investigate the impact of 20th--century European colonization on growth in Africa. We find that in the 1960 … growth accelerates after decolonization. Proxies for colonial heritage add explanatory power to growth regressions and make …

colonization mattered for growth. The following had some beneficial growth effects: being a dependency rather than a colony; being …, growth accelerates after independence. Variables proxying for colonial heritage add explanatory power to standard growth …

Republics (CARs) since 1990. The focus is on the pattern of growth and structural change during the cycle of decline and …

Republics (CARs) since 1990. The focus is on the pattern of growth and structural change during the cycle of decline and …

paper considers two distinct channels through which openness might affect growth, namely trade in final goods and technology … although trade and the resulting specialization in production generate a force of divergence between the two economies, this … question from the point of the view of unified growth theory. Contrary to other recent attempts to study this question, the …

This paper studies the origins and consequences of international technology gaps. I develop an endogenous growth model … theory characterizes how innovation and learning determine technology gaps, trade and global income inequality. Countries … innovation-dependence by industry from R&D and bilateral trade data. Calibrating the model implies technology gaps, due to cross …

Most existing evidences for indeterminacy are obtained from analyzing models that do not consider trade. This paper … that even though indeterminacy arises under autarky, it can be eliminated when trade takes place with another country …

hand the effects on bilateral trade (geographical specialization) and, secondly, the effects on the export and import … better respected in high income countries. However, the causality between labour standards and growth remains a controversial … issue. The strategies of export-led growth might encourage developing countries to contain the rising process of standards …

hand the effects on bilateral trade (geographical specialization) and, secondly, the effects on the export and import … better respected in high income countries. However, the causality between labour standards and growth remains a controversial … issue. The strategies of export-led growth might encourage developing countries to contain the rising process of standards …

negative exter- nal trade shocks may be accommodated by the migration of jobs be- tween sectors; the negative impact on some …, will be temporary, unless labour market rigidities prevent the necessary adjustment. We ar- gue that trade shocks trigger a … disequilibria. Therefore, the structural change that follows trade shocks can no longer be analysed within an equilibrium framework …