The paper studies the dynamics of economic growth caused by an increase in the growth rate of tourism demand.We develop a simple dynamic model of a small open economy, which is completely specialized in the production of tourism services (island economy model), populated by a large number of...

Modern theories of economic growth recognize human capital as the main factor of growth. Strong investments of countries in education and research are justified by this fact. However, there are few studies analyzing the interaction between the development of human capital and the economic growth...

This paper reformulates the neoclassical Solow model of economic growth in discrete time by introducing a generic population growth law that verifies the following properties: 1) population is strictly increasing and bounded; 2) the rate of growth of population is decreasing to zero as time tends...

One of the key elements in any standard economic growth theory is that population growth exponentially at a constant rate n gt; 0. This simple model can provide an adequate approximation to such growth only for the initial period because, growing exponentially, population approaches infinity...

In standard economic growth theory it is assumed that labour force follows exponential growth, a not realistic assumption. As described in, for example, Maynard Smith, Ref. 1, the growth of natural populations is more accurately depicted by a logistic growth law. This paper analyzes how...

In this paper we study the dynamics of economic growth for 140 countries during the period 1951-2003. The variables representing economic performance are levels and growth rates of per capita GDP. Using the concept of economic regime, we introduce a notion of distance between the dynamical paths...