Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Executive summary -- Introduction -- Economic growth and structural change : the role of infrastructure -- The Hub concept, competitive export, and dynamic cities as drivers of high economic growth -- Infrastructure constraints and investment needs -- Financing...

Sri Lanka achieved middle-income-country status in January 2010, on the strenght of of the economic growth fueled by the liberalization policy introduced in the late 1970s and pursued albeit unevenly in the following years. To continue growing, however, Sri Lanka needs to pay attention to its...

Several studies have documented a negative relationship between democracy and volatility. The latter is usually measured at high frequency - as the standard deviation of annual GDP growth rates. On the other hand, growth researchers have recently focused on the medium term and documented...

In this paper we argue that in 19th century U.S, households and firms that were located in cities with banks enjoyed a higher level of both consumption and production amenities than those who were located in cities without banks. We use data on banks location and city population growth in the...