The Determinants of Economic Growth /

The Determinants of Economic Growth / edited by M.S. Oosterbaan, Thijs Ruyter Van Steveninck, N. Windt.

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What causes growth? Why have some countries grown much faster than others? Why do some countries not grow at all, or even experience negative (per capita) growth rates? What can governments do to raise the growth rates of their countries? These questions were discussed at a conference organized by t...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Oosterbaan, M. S.
Other Authors: Ruyter Van Steveninck, Thijs, Windt, N.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2000.
Subjects:
Economics.
Endogenous growth (Economics)
Economic policy.
International economic relations.
Macroeconomics.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Economic growth and its determinants
  • An overview
  • 1 Recent developments in endogenous growth theory
  • 1.1 Framework for the empirical analysis of growth
  • 1.2 Empirical findings on growth across countries
  • 1.3 Implications of the cross-country findings for advanced countries
  • 2 The joys and sorrows of openness: A review essay
  • 2.1 The many dimensions of openness
  • 2.2 The joys of openness
  • 2.3 The sorrows of openness
  • 2.4 Conclusions
  • 3 Technology in growth
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Development of the literature
  • 3.3 Empirical studies: R & D and the impact of property rights on growth
  • 3.4 Conclusions
  • 4 Financial markets, financial flows, and economic growth in LDCs
  • 4.1 A fiscal foreword
  • 4.2 Domestic finance
  • 4.3 Foreign debt accumulation
  • 4.4 Foreign direct investment
  • 4.5 Conclusions
  • 5 Institutional development and economic growth
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 What are institutions?
  • 5.3 Culture and social equilibria
  • 5.4 Extensive and intensive growth
  • 5.5 Changing material and cosmological beliefs
  • 5.6 The family, the market, and the state
  • 5.7 Conclusions
  • 6 Human capital and growth: The cost of rent seeking activities
  • 6.1 Introduction
  • 6.2 Standard formulations of the role of human capital in empirical growth equations
  • 6.3 Rent-seeking as an economic activity
  • 6.4 The impact of rent-seeking on economic output
  • 6.5 Rent-seeking and growth in an endogenous growth model
  • 6.6 Empirical assessment: Evaluating human capital devoted to rent-seeking activities
  • 6.7 Conclusions
  • 7 Recent advances in economic growth: A policy perspective
  • 7.1 Introduction
  • 7.2 Growth theory: Some basic concepts
  • 7.3 Education and human capital
  • 7.4 Technology, R & D, and trade
  • 7.5 Financial markets and capital flows
  • 7.6 Institutions and inequality
  • 7.7 Empirical studies
  • 7.8 Conclusions
  • Epilogue.

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