beneficial in early stages of development, generated in later stages a hurdle for human capital accumulation and economic growth … from an agrarian to an industrial economy generating diverging growth patterns across countries. Land abundance, which was … of industrialization affected the transition to modern growth and has brought about changes in the ranking of countries …

development. …

-faring and airborne transportation technologies, to examine its impact on the course of economic development across the globe … effect on the process of development and contributed to the contemporary variation in the standard of living across countries. …

income. I find that institutions are the main determinant of development, but that endowments have a sizeable direct impact …

Several recent papers suggest that the negative association between natural resource intensity and economic growth can … institutional quality consistently have a negative growth effect but a positive interaction that turns the curse around when …

Paper reviews India's growth performance since independence. Phrases suchas "Hindu Rate of Growth," sometimes make a … attention on the wrong issue. There is nothing in the literature that suggeststhat this period of the "Hindu Rate of Growth" had … anything to do with Hinduism per se.This paper shows that had a lot to do with the Indian version of Socialism. The 30 …

Building on a Kaleckian-structuralist macroeconomic growth model this paper examines the impact of the interaction … between labor market gender equality and social reproduction (SR) or care provisioning, on economic growth across U.S. states … relationship between women's labor force participation rate (WLFPR) and state's per-capita growth rate across these regimes. The …

Historically, episodes of rapid growth are accompanied by significant structural change. In this paper we therefore aim … to quantify the extent to which factor accumulation induces structural change and productivity growth in industrializing … economies. To fix ideas we present an extension of Barro, Mankiw and Sala-i-Martin?s (1995) growth model that incorporates two …

, to enhance countries' growth. I argue that the relationship between stock markets and growth is exaggerated and that the … simple act of opening a formal stock market is not a good predictor of whether a country will experience economic growth …. While it is possible that in some instances opening a stock market can lead to increased growth, I do not find any evidence …