Over the past century, all OECD countries have been characterized by a dramatic increase in economic conditions, life expectancy and educational attainment. This paper provides a positive theory that explains how an economy might evolve when the longevity of its citizens both influences and is...

For the past two decades, Tunisia has been undertaken important structural reforms,which call in most cases for market and trade liberalization (agricultural structural adjustmentprogram, GATT reforms, free trade area with the European Union). The private-led type ofgrowth strategy with less...

The Italian Industrial Districts (IDs) are now considered in the national and international literatureas one of the main factors of the successful and rapid industrial development of Italy after theSecond World War. In this paper we outline the general characteristics of the IDs approach andthen...

Economic and agricultural convergence across the EU regions has for a long time attractedthe attention of economists and more so in the recent decade following the EU enlargement.Empirical contributions have referred explicitly or implicitly to the Solow’s model ofeconomic growth testing...

Empirical evidence on three assertions commonly-made by populationpolicy advocates about the relationships among population growth, humancapital formation and economic development is discussed and evaluated inthe light of economic-biological models of household behavior and of itsrelevance to...

This paper attempts to assess the feasibility of the current strategy of manufactured export-led growth for Turkey over the Fifth and Sixth Five-Year Plan periods (1985-1994). The explicit hypothesis of the paper is that a domestic market,wage-goods oriented development strategy with agriculture...

Since the seminal work of Adam Smith, markets have been considered an efficienttool for co-ordinating the behaviour of economic agents. The basic characteristicof a market economy is that the complex system of interaction amongindividuals is not centrally coordinated. Under the assumption of...

We analyze the evolution of Sub-Saharan Africa’s agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) over the past 45 years, looking for evidence of recent changes in growth patterns using an improved nonparametric Malmquist index. Our TFP estimates show a remarkable recovery in the performance of...

This paper analysed the growth performance of non-rice crop sectors by estimating total factorproductivity (TFP) growth for the selected coarse cereals viz., maize, sorghum and pearl millet inIndia. The analysis indicates that the TFP growth contributed substantially to the output growth...

The increase of the rate of growth in the underdeveloped areas of the world bears today outstanding interest for both developed and underdeveloped nations. For developed societies, if only for an interest in the maintenance abroad of a leadership position, there are the needs for protection of...