Using a comprehensive database on bank credit, covering 135 developing countries over the period 1960�2011, we identify, document, and compare the macro-economic dynamics of credit booms across low-and middle-income countries. The results suggest that while the duration and magnitude of credit...

This chapter emphasizes the importance of health policy and its implementation and connection to economic growth. The chapter also offers a different view of progress in the provision of better health facilities. The study looks at today's health systems-the amalgam of people, practices, rules,...

This volume is a collection of selected empirical studies on determinants of economic growth in Africa. Grouped into three parts, chapters examine the influence of financial sources and economic growth; sources of productivity growth; and prices, exchange rates and trade relationships with...

Vielfältig sind die Krisenzeichen unserer Zeit. Der gesellschaftliche Zusammenhalt schwindet, die politischen Strukturen erodieren und die wirtschaftlichen Verhältnisse überzeugen nicht mehr. Von einer Tendenzwende wird angesichts der Neuerungen, Enttäuschungen, Unbestimmtheiten,...