Highlights•Migration has simultaneous offsetting positive and negative effects on
sustainability.•Migration affects sustainability in environmental, social, and economic …

The concept of regional development trap refers to regions that face significant structural
challenges in retrieving past dynamism or improving prosperity for their residents. This …

This article provides an overview of the growing literature on urban-rural gaps in the
developing world. I begin with recent evidence on the size of the gaps as measured by …

Economists' understanding of long-run economic development has greatly improved thanks
to the historical statistics compiled by the late Angus Maddison. Yet his method for …

A rigorous, pathbreaking analysis demonstrating that a country's prosperity is directly related
in the long run to the skills of its population. In this book Eric Hanushek and Ludger …

We describe the theory and practice of real GDP comparisons across countries and over
time. Version 8 of the Penn World Table expands on previous versions in three respects …

" Little else is required to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest
barbarism, but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice; all the rest being …

We investigate the determinants of regional development using a newly constructed
database of 1,569 subnational regions from 110 countries covering 74% of the world's …

A large portion of differences in output per capita across countries is explained by
differences in total factor productivity (TFP). In this article, we summarize a recent literature …

The purpose of this paper is to empirically determine the effects of political instability on
economic growth. By using the system-GMM estimator for linear dynamic panel data models …