This paper surveys the convergence literature. It begins by laying out different definitions of
convergence and by showing the link between the convergence issue and the growth theory …

The transition from stagnation to growth and the associated phenomenon of the great
divergence have been the subject of an intensive research in the growth literature in recent …

Why has China grown so fast for so long despite vast corruption? In China's Gilded Age,
Yuen Yuen Ang maintains that all corruption is harmful, but not all types of corruption hurt …

Long-term scenarios play an important role in research on global environmental change.
The climate change research community is developing new scenarios integrating future …

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 …

This chapter introduces a new composite index of financial inclusion for 151 economies
using principal component analysis (PCA) to compute weights for aggregating nine …

In this paper, we examine the various links among foreign direct investment (FDI), financial
markets, and economic growth. We explore whether countries with better financial systems …

Global GDP projections for the 21st century are needed for the exploration of long-term
global environmental problems, in particular climate change. Greenhouse gas emissions as …

For most of the vast span of human history, economic growth was all but nonexistent. Then,
about two centuries ago, some nations began to emerge from this epoch of economic …

This paper provides a survey and synthesis of econometric tools that have been employed
to study economic growth. While these tools range across a variety of statistical methods …