This paper examines data on economic growth and various social indicators and compares the past 25 years (1980 … seen a sharp slowdown in the rate of economic growth, as well as a decline in the rate of progress on major social …

This paper examines data on economic growth and various social indicators for 193 countries over the past 50 years … growth and in progress on social indicators during the second (1980-2000) period, there has been a recovery on both economic … growth and, for many countries, a rebound in progress on social indicators (including life expectancy, adult, infant, and …

Economic growth in the 19th and 20th centuries, following the Industrial Revolutions, was much faster than in preceding … centuries. This unprecedented global growth coincided with the global proliferation of democracy, with some evidence for … bidirectional causation. Macroeconomic forecasts have predicted slower economic growth in the 21st century--perhaps substantially …

countries. Economists have used the disequilibrium adjustment property of growth models to justify the view that convergence … parameters of a growth model that has the conditional convergence property and then computing the speed of convergence implied by … a stochastic neoclassical growth model and compute the speed of conditional convergence in the non-stochastic model from …

development”. The notion of economic development has several dimensions: quantitative measurement (growth), qualitative dimension … of the time factor into the theory of economic development links into a single unit quantitative changes (growth …), qualitative changes (structure) and oscillating character of economic processes, and makes growth and structure interdependent …