growth reducing in both Africa and Latin America, with the most striking changes taking place in Latin America. The bulk of … to which) structural change contributes to overall productivity growth. In countries with a relatively large share of … natural resources in exports, structural change has typically been growth reducing. Even though these "enclave" sectors …

institutions. A range of evidence indicates that participatory democracies enable higher-quality growth …

link between trade policy and growth have serious shortcomings. Papers that we review include Dollar (1992), Ben … tariff and non-tariff barriers to trade--are significantly associated with economic growth …

This paper argues that domestic social conflicts are a key to understanding why growth rates lack persistence and why … so many countries have experienced a growth collapse after the mid-1970s. It emphasizes conflicts interact with external … support for this hypothesis. Countries that experienced the sharpest drops in growth after 1975 were those with divided …

This paper studies the relationship between political conflict and economic growth in a simple model of endogenous … growth with distributive conflicts. We study both the case of two "classes" (workers and capitalists) and the case of a … income and growth. For example, it is shown that policies which maximize growth are optimal only for a government that cares …

Unlike most cross-country growth analyses, we focus on turning points in growth performance. We look for instances of … rapid acceleration in economic growth that are sustained for at least eight years and identify more than 80 such episodes … since the 1950s. Growth accelerations tend to be correlated with increases in investment and trade, and with real exchange …