The empirical growth literature has focused on capital accumulation but largely ignored productivity growth. To address … importance of efficiency changes for economic growth. Using a sample of 26 OECD countries from 1965-90, we find convergence and … important source of economic growth. …

There has been a revival of interest in the effect of risk on economic growth. We quantify both ex ante and ex post … remarkable long-running panel data set for rural households in Zimbabwe. We find that risk substantially reduces growth: in the …, the first micro-based estimate of the effect of shocks on growth. About two-thirds of the impact of risk is due to the ex …

In the current study, we attempt to develop a model on how institutional quality aids economic growth convergence and … FDI inflow in GCC countries using panel dataset spanning 1996 to 2016. We estimate growth convergence by deviating GDP … growth rate of individual economy from its group average, emanating equation approximate ADF equation which was used for …

1996 to 2017. To this purpose, we estimate growth equations, which are directly derived from a neoclassical growth model … we fail to find any role of human capital for regional economic growth, we find that interregional migration and … interdependencies of the growth experience of Russian regions contribute to economic convergence between them. …

We provide an overview of recent empirical research on patterns of cross-country growth. The new empirical regularities … growth model …