Academics and policy makers have long considered an adequate supply of infrastructure
services to be essential for economic development. This paper reviews recent theoretical …

The increase in economic disparities over the past 30 years has prompted extensive
research on the causes and consequences of inequality both in the United States and, more …

Kurang lebih empat dekade pembangunan sebagaimana terus dipraktekkan hingga
sekarang tidak menunjukkan keberhasilannya dalam meningkatkan pendapatan maupun …

The world economy is facing important medium-and long-term challenges. Whereas rich
countries will be challenged to increase their economic productivity to sustain current …

One of the most urgent challenges in African economic development is to devise a strategy
for improving statistical capacity. Reliable statistics, including estimates of economic growth …

In his previous Schumpeter Prize-winning work, Lee analysed the'middle-income trap', in
which a developing country grows strongly only to plateau at a certain point. Yet certain …

One of the puzzles about why some countries have stronger economic growth than others
revolves around the so-called'middle-income trap', the situation in which a country that has …

The central fact that has motivated the empirics of economic growth—namely unconditional
divergence—is no longer true and has not been so for decades. Across a range of data …

Once marginalized in the world economy, Africa today is a major global supplier of crucial
raw materials like oil, uranium and coltan. China's part in this story has loomed particularly …

This paper is an introduction to the special issue from the 3rd Global Entrepreneurship
Monitor Research Conference held in Washington, DC, in 2008. The paper has three …