In 2015, the EU regional / cohesion policy has passed its 40th anniversary. During this time, it has undergone various manifestations with ever-changing objectives. It started as a mixture of structural and regional policy aimed at reducing regional economic disparities within the Union. Since...

In the postwar period until today the call for more intensive economic growth, again and again, enjoyed a substantial popularity in the world of politics, in particular with reference to possible current solutions of given economic problems. Here growth considerations and decisions in the past...

Is there a "middle-income trap"? Theory suggests that the determinants of growth at low and high income levels may be different. If countries struggle to transition from growth strategies that are effective at low income levels to growth strategies that are effective at high income levels, they...

Die Lage der russischen Wirtschaft ist dramatisch. Um 3,7% ist die gesamtwirtschaftliche Leistung 2015 eingebrochen. Die verhängten Wirtschaftssanktionen sowie der Ölpreisverfall haben zu der Abwärtsspirale beigetragen. Doch die eigentlichen Schwächen der russischen Wirtschaft sind eher...

In 2015, the EU regional / cohesion policy has passed its 40th anniversary. During this time, it has undergone various manifestations with ever-changing objectives. It started as a mixture of structural and regional policy aimed at reducing regional economic disparities within the Union. Since...

Following the European Commission's guidelines, WIFO has undertaken a monitoring of the implementation of the Austrian National Reform Programme within the framework of the European 2020 growth strategy. The main components are the development of normative target corridors to assess progress in...

Machine generated contents note: -- Part I Setting the Stage -- 1. India at the Cusp -- 2. 1947-2016: A Tour d'Horizon -- 3. Ends and Means, State and Market -- Part II The Growth Challenge -- 4. Capital Accumulation and Animal Spirits -- 5. Growth and the Employment Problem -- 6. Productivity...

Getting growth going is hard and rare -- History as prologue -- Dictators build and sustain pro-growth coalitions -- Dictators incite domestic capitalists to invest -- Selective interventions in rice agriculture -- The state and industrial development -- Technological upgrading -- Democrats,...

Part 1. South Asia's competitiveness challenge and opportunity -- The region's competitiveness potential remains largely unrealized -- Improving competitiveness requires raising productivity rather than keeping costs low -- Part 2. Productivity performance: firms and linkages -- Business...