This study investigates the effects of GDP per capita on infant mortality using panel data from 83 developing countries over a period of 40 years. Although economic growth broadly decreases infant mortality, the impact of economic growth on infant mortality for the periods of economic booms and...

Books reviewed: Free Trade under Fire, Douglas A. Irwin, author. Secondary Privatization in Transition Economies: The Evolution of Enterprise Ownership in the Czech Republic, Poland, and Slovenia, Barbara Blaszczyk, author, Iraj Hoshi and Richard Woodward (eds.). Going Alone: The Case for...

Books reviewed in this article: Warwick J. McKibbin and Peter J. Wilcoxen - Climate Change after Kyoto: Blueprint for a Realistic Approach Ludger Woessmann - Schooling and the Quality of Human Capital Mordechai E. Kreinin and Michael G. Plummer - Economic Integration and Development: Has...

It is shown that convergence in inequality has been significantly slower amongst developing countries.

Recent contributions to the empirical growth literature show no tendency to convergence in specification, as researchers seek to identify new variables that can account for significant regional effects in earlier work. We conduct non-nested tests between the models of Barro (1997), Easterly and...

It is shown that convergence in inequality has been significantly slower amongst developing countries.