This is the background paper for the productivity extension of the World Bank's Long-Term Growth Model (LTGM). Based on … an extensive literature review, the paper identifies the main determinants of economic productivity as innovation … Penn World Table, and assesses the pattern of productivity growth across regions and income groups over the same sample …

Is there a tradeoff between raising growth and reducing inequality and poverty? This paper reviews the theoretical and … empirical literature on the complex links between growth, inequality, and poverty, with causation going in both directions. The … evidence suggests that growth can be effective in reducing poverty, but its impact on inequality is ambiguous and depends on …

poor rose over 1981-2005, despite falling numbers of absolutely poor. With sustained economic growth, the incidence of … relative poverty becomes less responsive to further growth. Slower progress against relative poverty can thus be seen as the …