Abstract: A growth accounting exercise is conducted for 88 countries for 1960-94 to examine the source of cross-country differences in total factor productivity (TFP) levels. Two differences ...

For decades, we’ve been conditioned to believe that growth is driven by the entrepreneurship ... Are the boomers capable of driving the economy forward? Just look at the numbers.

Working Papers describe research in progress by the author(s) and are published to elicit comments and to further debate Summary: The conventional growth-accounting approach to estimating the sources ...

The “artificial” underwriting of economic growth by federal government largesse can only go so far. Throughout this period, the question that always lurked in the background concerned the ...

A biannual World Bank publication that assesses the country’s economic outlook, the magazine focuses its latest issue on basic education as a key source of growth. “Although the Cameroonian economy ...

The CSIS Energy Program assessed the existing academic literature, commissioned new research papers, convened an expert summit, and compiled the findings to produce Energy in America: Energy as a ...

President Donald Trump predicted that GDP could expand as much as 9% a year, compared with Congressional Budget Office ...

Vollrath offers a detailed decomposition of the sources of economic growth, which uses a mathematical technique that the eminent M.I.T. economist Robert Solow pioneered in the nineteen-fifties.

A History and a Reckoning” charts the growth of growth as an economic idea, policy objective and source of anxiety. The author occupies the broad middle ground between the proponents of the ...

A new report finds that Massachusetts’ economic growth over the past decade has been powered in large part by its Hispanic and Latino residents, who make up just 13.5% of the population but ...