The empirical literature on economic growth and development has moved from the study of proximate determinants to the …

growth accounts including intangible capital for 14 countries. We find (a) intangible investment in the EU is less than the … 2007 capital deepening accounted for almost 50% of growth in the EU and 65% in the US, with intangible investment … growth, consistent with spillovers from intangibles. …

calls for a more detailed study of East German growth between 1947 and 1990 as well as for more historical benchmark …

Although Japanese economic growth after the Meiji Restoration is often characterised as a gradual process of trend … dynamic performance of the US economy before 1950. A comparison with the United Kingdom, still the world productivity leader … exporter of manufactured goods not simply by catching-up in labour productivity terms, but by holding the growth of real wages …

an important predictor of adult life expectancy. Fertility, childhood development, longevity, education and income growth … different regimes. In a Malthusian regime with no education fertility increases with adult life expectancy. In the modern growth … transition, including the hump in both population growth and fertility, and replicate the observed rise in educational attainment …

This paper extends the standard growth regression model by adding an assumption that a country follows the global … technology frontier either fully or partially. This additional assumption changes significantly the growth regression model and … its results in three main ways. First, it shows that although a country converges to its long-run growth path, this path …

This paper investigates how telecommunications infrastructure affects economic growth. This issue is important and has … the macro-growth equation. After controlling for country-specific fixed effects, we find evidence of a significant …