The celebrated Uzawa(1961) theorem holds that，on the steady-growth path of neoclassical growth model，technological progress must be purely labor-augmenting rather than capital-augmenting，except the special case where the production function takes the form of Cobb-Douglas. With an augmented...

Can extending social welfare expenditures promote economic growth? This issue has been discussed extensively, with some research pointing to net benefits while others find a net negative impact. Insight can be gained by careful analysis of several sub-questions. For example, for two countries...