We examine the record of cross-country growth over the past fifty years and ask if
developing countries have made progress on closing the income gap between their per …

The history of humankind witnessed a continual improvement of living standards. The
introduction of agriculture stabled our food supplies. The industrial revolution eradicated …

This paper examines whether major output collapses are more likely under autocracy. Using
data on 123 developing countries over 1971–2016, we model the joint evolution of output …

The study presents a systematic literature review with bibliometric analysis of the existing
literature on convergence hypothesis sourced from the Scopus database over two decades …

We study the contraction of foreign direct investment (FDI) flows in the United States during
the recent financial crisis and show their unusual non‐resiliency, which depends in part on …

Previous research suggests that economy-wide poverty traps are rarely observed in the
data. In this paper, we explore a related hypothesis: low-income countries rarely improve …

We investigate the existence of a middle-income trap using finite state Markov chains,
constant growth thresholds, and mean passage times. As well as studying output per head …

本文构建了一国的创新增长模型, 模型刻画了知识外部性, 竞争与创新增长三者之间的关系,
知识外溢通过降低创新进入门槛, 鼓励创新竞争, 增进知识积累, 促进一国的创新增长 …

Investigation of economies as complex adaptive systems may provide a deeper
understanding of their behavior and response to perturbation. We use methodologies from …

One of the key issues of research in the area of economic growth and development has
been the convergence hypothesis or the debate on the 'poor becoming the rich' …