China’s unbalanced growth strategy has seemingly fostered growing inter-regional growth disparities and there is little … specified to detect underlying long-term growth trends in small samples due to the pronounced and frequent inter-regional short …-term fluctuations. Our paper suggests a novel approach to distinguish between these long-term growth trends and short-term fluctuations …

temperature and precipitation levels. We design an improved set of instruments for growth based on this fact, and find that growth … significantly overestimate the increase in the probability of democratic transitions resulting from negative growth shocks, although …

This study examines the determinants of technological innovation and its impact on firm labor productivity across Latin … American countries (Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, and Uruguay) using micro data from innovation surveys. In … innovation investment are much more heterogeneous than in OECD countries. Cooperation, foreign ownership, and exporting increase …

Despite the tremendous human suffering caused by natural disasters, their effects on economic growth remain unclear … contradictory findings reported in the literature, this study explores the effects of natural disasters on growth separately by …-country panel dataset, three major insights emerge. First, disasters do affect economic growth but not always negatively, with …

effectiveness of development aid in promoting growth. We focus on whether aid promotes economic growth in transitional economies. We … find that aid, on average, has had a positive impact on growth for this specific group of countries. This result is robust … on good policy and there is little evidence of non-linear growth effects arising from aid. …

We study the impact of growth and growth accelerations on poverty and inequality in Indonesia using a new panel dataset … Indonesia. Growth in non-mining significantly reduces poverty and inequality. In contrast, overall growth and growth in mining … appears to have no effect on the same. Growth acceleration in non-mining reduces poverty and inequality whereas the same in …

informal finance, especially financing from friends and family, is positively associated with sales growth of microenterprises … firm growth. Our findings underline the importance of finance for entrepreneurship and microenterprise growth, and the role …

This paper confirms recent evidence of a positive impact of aid on growth and widens the scope of evaluation to a range … of outcomes including proximate sources of growth (e.g., physical and human capital), indicators of social welfare (e … coherent and favorable pattern of results emerges. Aid has over the past 40years stimulated growth, promoted structural change …