- together with standard growth models to frame the role of religion in economic growth. Unifying a growing literature, we argue … that religion can enhance or impinge upon economic growth through all four elements because it shapes individual … development. It affects human capital through both religious and secular education. It affects population and labor by influencing …

-together with standard growth models to frame the role of religion in economic growth. Unifying a growing literature, we argue that … religion can enhance or impinge upon economic growth through all four elements because it shapes individual preferences … development. It affects human capital through both religious and secular education. It affects population and labor by influencing …

This paper surveys the empirical and theoretical link between education and growth in the growth process of Asian … countries. Particular attention is paid to the link between education and productivity, and to models that characterize key … features of growth processes of Asian countries. Empirical studies show that these key features include liability to falling …

This chapter is an exposition, rather than a survey, of the one-sector neoclassical growth model. It describes how the … non-renewable natural resources, endogenous population growth and technological progress. In each case, the purpose is to …

The transition from stagnation to growth and the associated phenomenon of the great divergence have been the subject of … an intensive research in the growth literature in recent years. The discrepancy between the predictions of exogenous and … endogenous growth models and the process of development over most of human history, induced growth theorists to advance an …