Recent growth trends in some OECD countries have attracted widespread attention. In particular, the conjunction of a number of developments in the United States has contributed to an impression that something fundamental may have changed. These include: strong non-inflationary growth, coupled

concerned with regional growth and development have focused mainly on the role of firms in cities, and particularly on how these firms make location decisions and to what extent they concentrate together in agglomerations or clusters. This short article summarizes recent advances in our thinking about

.5 per cent annually). The government estimates growth of 6.6 per cent for 2008. Far from this recent growth simply being a rebound from a crisis, as Duncan sees it, there are good reasons to view it as indicative of a move to a higher growth path, and as sustainable, at least in the longer-term.1

Has Africa finally reached the path to sustained growth? We find that much of the improvement in economic performance in Africa after 1995 is attribu-table to a substantial reduction in the frequency and severity of growth declines in all economies and an increase in growth accelerations in mineral

This chapter examines the process of development from an epoch of Malthusian stagnation to a state of sustained economic growth. The analysis focuses on recently advanced unified growth theories that capture the intricate evolution of income per capita, technology, and population over the course

Recent literature suggests that long-run averages of growth and inflation are only weakly correlated and such correlation is not robust to exclusion of extreme inflation observations; inclusion of time series panel data has improved matters but an aggregate parametric approach remains

diffusion relates to other factors affecting economic growth in open economies. The following main section of the paper provides a review of recent empirical results on (i) basic results in intemational technology diffusion; (ii) the importance of specific channels of diffusion, in particular trade

Recent theoretical results describing the sum capacity when using multiple antennas to communicate with multiple users in a known rich scattering environment have not yet been followed with practical transmission schemes that achieve this capacity. We introduce a simple encoding algorithm

A permutation group G (acting on a set Ω, usually infinite) is said to be oligomorphic if G has only finitely many orbits on Ω n (the set of n-tuples of elements of Ω). Such groups have traditionally been linked with model theory and combinatorial enumeration; more recently their group

Abstract. Studies from a variety of disciplines document recent change in the northern high-latitude environment. Prompted by predictions of an amplified response of the Arctic to enhanced greenhouse forcing, we present a synthesis of these observations. Pronounced winter and spring warming over