This article investigates the influence of environmental policy on growth assuming that the channel of transmission … (1985) where growth is driven by a mechanism à la Romer (1986). We demonstrate that environmental policy has an ambiguous … effect on growth in the steady-state when the detrimental impact of pollution on health and lifetime is taken into account …

Since its first inception in the debate on the relationship between environment and growth in 1992, the Environmental …

We analyze the empirical relationship between growth, country size and tourism specialization by using a dataset …-groups considered in our analysis. Tourism appears to be an independent determining factor for growth, and the reason for that is … conclusions in the literature, smallness per se is not good for growth. …

This paper assesses econometrically the contribution of aid to output growth in a panel of twenty transition countries … growth. A second result is that the positive effect of aid seems to be stronger when associated with economic liberalisation … economic growth and the recent declining trend in aid commitments from industrialized countries. …

-homothetic preferences in a general-equilibrium model of endogenous growth and international trade between two countries, and argue that the … is high whereas the world growth rate is low. The introduction of non-homothetic preferences rises a number of …

We obtain time series estimates of the long run growth rates of 17 OECD countries, and test the hypothesis that these … long run growth rates, and; (ii) any policies that can raise national growth rates must be international in scope. The … results therefore have bleak implications for the ability of countries to affect their long run growth rates. …

determinants of growth rates of per capita GDP among countries using two variants of Edward Leamerâ??s extreme-bounds analysis is … the factors that most affect differences of growth rates are ones that are beyond the control of policymakers. …

This research develops an evolutionary growth theory that captures the intricate time path of life expectancy in the …

We compare the relationship between net capital inflows, real exchange rate movements and growth for twenty emerging … associated with faster growth, but in emerging markets depreciations depress growth, even outside crisis periods, and are closely …

I discuss how aid can support growth in small, isolated economies. Small markets frustrate scale economies and …