This paper revisits the relationship between international trade and economic growth. We measure trade openness indices … growth. Openness in terms of final consumer goods turns out to be insignificant in most specifications. We also estimate … traditional cross country growth regressions where we use trade data to construct the two trade openness indices for 174 countries …

This paper examines how skill-biased growth can generate economic fragmentation (income disparities) that give rise to …, respectively. We show how skill-biased growth leads to an expansion of the individualistic and communitarian groups, at the expense …

between economic growth and income inequity. We develop a simple model to establish that economic growth and inequality can … (economic growth). Our findings for the Associations of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), People Republic of China and India (ACI …) economies are two-fold: first, we observed that for low values of economic growth, inequality and growth bear an inverted U …

turn looks for engines of sustained growth. We use a micro-founded macroeconomic model calibrated to Greece. Our …