with negative growth rates and a process away from globalisation. …

presentday institutions, but are also partly independent of institutional quality. <p> …

This paper reviews the recent literature dealing with the relationships between economic growth, income distribution …. Neither does it find any systematic link from fast growth to increasing inequality. Some recent empirical evidence has tended … to confirm the negative impact of inequality on growth, on the other hand. Others have found that the level of initial …

discusses the extent to which this explains their recent growth success. It starts with a review of some theoretical arguments … in the growth and globalisation debate, which is followed by a presentation of facts about Asia-Pacific international … economic integration and growth relative to other regions of the world. Then we discuss the causes of the growth acceleration …

The paper investigates the poverty impact of growth in Ethiopia by analysing panel data covering the period 1994 to … determinants. Decomposition of changes in poverty into the growth and redistribution components indicates that potential poverty …

Is social capital always important for economic growth? A number of recent micro studies suggest that interpersonal … trust and social capital will have its greatest impact on economic performance when court institutions are relatively weak …. The conventional wisdom from macro studies, however, is that social capital is unconditionally good for growth. On the …

knowledge growth as reflected in patents statistics. New Zealand's distinctive institutions and human capital fostered the … intensive growth. By investigating the cointegrating and causal relationships among the output of 25 industries we show that a … integrated farm and factory to promote intensive growth. …

scramble for Africa. When we broaden the analysis, it is shown that the positive effect of colonial duration on democracy is … that a long history of statehood is bad for democracy while there is almost no effect of the national identity of the …