MENA countries for the period 1960–2011. While the MENA region has been widely neglected in the trade and growth literature …, this paper offers a decomposition of MENA GDP growth in order to disentangle the contributions of both service and goods … of GDP growth reveals a greater impact of goods trade, although service trade is important, and for most countries …

China's fast growth is perceived as a major determinant of its savings glut that contributes to global imbalances, but … find that China's growth is positively affected by saving but has a limited effect on saving, that inequality mainly has a … negative impact on growth but has a positive impact on saving, and that inequality is a stronger factor than growth in …

emissions, financial development, economic growth, energy consumption and trade openness for India. Our main contribution to the … energy policies for India that contribute to the curbing of carbon emissions while preserving economic growth. …

We suggest that the demographic changes caused by the one child policy (OCP) may not harm China's long-term growth … the prospects of China's long-term growth by emphasizing the OCP's growth enhancing role through human capital formation …

We evaluate the growth and welfare effects of budget-neutral reforms in the US tax system. Large gains in welfare and … growth could result from adopting a consumption-based tax system. In contrast, significant welfare and growth losses would …-negligible welfare and growth gains. …

The empirical evidence on the relationship between income inequality and economic growth is widely recognized and, now … economic growth and income inequality in the case of Mexico. To this end, a time series of data for the Gini coefficients from … in cross-country growth regressions. We first investigate (and confirm) that the two series of per capita GDP and Gini …

Growth models with endogenous mortality assume generally that life expectancy is increasing with output per capita and …

In this paper, we investigate the robustness of the relationship between trade openness and long-run economic growth … a systematic manner. We find no evidence that trade openness is directly and robustly correlated with economic growth in … different trade openness proxies and none of the proxies is robustly associated with economic growth. The data evidence also …

This paper examines the causality relationship between immigration, unemployment and economic growth of the host … (France, Iceland, Norway and the United Kingdom), growth positively causes immigration, whereas in any country, immigration … does not cause growth. …