The empirical growth literature has focused on capital accumulation but largely ignored productivity growth. To address … importance of efficiency changes for economic growth. Using a sample of 26 OECD countries from 1965-90, we find convergence and … important source of economic growth. …

This paper provides a survey and synthesis of econometric tools that have been employed to study economic growth. While … interesting contemporaneous patterns in growth data and second, drawing inferences on long-run economic outcomes from cross …-section and temporal variation in growth. We describe the main stylized facts that have motivated the development of growth …

We provide an overview of recent empirical research on patterns of cross-country growth. The new empirical regularities … growth model. …