demography. However, the paper contends that their lacklustre growth performance over the last two decades has also been due to …

The study presents recent global evidence on the transformation of economic growth to poverty reduction in developing … countries, with emphasis on the role of income inequality. The focus is on the period since the early/mid-1990s when growth in … study finds that on average income growth has been the major driving force behind both the declines and increases in poverty …

they have played significant roles in the region’s slow and episodic economic growth. Results from cross …-country regressions covering 31 Sub-Saharan African countries suggest that growth in Africa is not simply a question of capital … growth of African economies does not depend so much on their ability to innovate, but rather on their capacity to absorb and …

How does innovation impact on development? How, and under what conditions, do entrepreneurs in developing countries … innovate? And what can be done to support innovation by entrepreneurs in developing countries? This policy brief addresses … these questions and explains the relationship between entrepreneurship, innovation and development. Policy lessons are drawn …

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