China’s unbalanced growth strategy has seemingly fostered growing inter-regional growth disparities and there is little … specified to detect underlying long-term growth trends in small samples due to the pronounced and frequent inter-regional short …-term fluctuations. Our paper suggests a novel approach to distinguish between these long-term growth trends and short-term fluctuations …

economic growth and points to the importance of tertiary education in the explanation of growth for developing countries. In … previous literature, our results show that, under broad and plausible model parameterizations, the marginal growth effect of …

Using a variety of statistical approaches, we show that the relationship between property rights and growth is … nonlinear; stronger enforcement of property rights raises growth up to a point before growth begins to decline. We provide a …. Stronger property rights have two opposing effects. On the one hand it increases capital formation and growth. On the other …

institutional innovation. …

economic growth, drawing on evidence from Latin America and other developing regions. The econometric evidence strongly … suggests that the sector contributes to growth more than its share of GDP, certainly in Latin America but also elsewhere. Cross …-country studies show that, on average in the developing world, agriculture tends to have an impact on both national growth and poverty …

Summary Interest in agriculture for growth and poverty reduction reawakened in the early 2000s made all the keener by … the sudden rise in cereals prices on world markets in 2007-08. But is it still possible to drive agricultural growth …

constraint for the growth of southern Italy’s mainly as a consequence of the deep process of governmental decentralization that … began in the1970s. We formalize this hypothesis by using an endogenous growth model with public capital. In this model, the … managed locally. To assess the role of decentralization as a trigger of the influence of local social capital on growth, we …

This paper presents a New Economic Geography model of structural change, agglomeration and growth. By assuming the same … time. Second, the introduction of non-homotheticity introduces a new channel through which growth is affected by trade … costs and agglomeration. In particular, integration is always growth-enhancing while agglomeration is growth-detrimental. …

balanced growth path properties of this economy, and focus on the sensitiveness of its qualitative dynamic behaviour, according … to different subsets in the parameters space. The model is able to perform both endogenous growth and sustainability of …