Human capabilities play an important part in the emergence from stagnation to modern economic growth. Historical and macroeconomic studies show substantial effects for nutrition and health on income levels and on rates of ...

Human development is characterized by intergenerational traps that slow economic growth. Such a trap exists in Mexico, with increasing returns for education not accessed by most of the population. In addition, early child ...

We introduce imperfect creditor protection in a multi-country version of Schumpeterian growth theory with technology transfer. The theory predicts that the growth rate of any country with more than some critical level of ...

We construct a multi-country Schumpeterian growth model in which technological change can occur either through research and development or through implementation. R&D requires a threshold level of human capital that depends ...

Market failures in human capital investment and innovation explain the main features of human development and economic growth. This is shown in a Schumpeterian multi-country model with technology transfer and trade. Thus, ...

A Schumpeterian (technological) theory of development and underdevelopment in an open global economy with technology transfer, trade and investment is presented. While free trade provides a powerful force for convergence, ...

En este trabajo se resume una teoría Schumpeteriana (tecnológica) del desarrollo y del subdesarrollo en el contexto de una economía globalizada y abierta, que toma en cuenta el comercio, la inversión y la transferencia ...

Afro-Indigenous health inequities are jointly estimated for Bolivia, Guatemala, Peru and Brazil. The concentration index for various health and health factor indices is decomposed according to two socio-geographic ...

It is a widely held belief that foreign direct investment (FDI) has a positive effect on economic growth. We test this hypothesis by performing convergence regressions derived from a model of endogenous technological change. ...

Nutrition and health interact with long-term economic growth through an intergenerational process of human capital accumulation characterized by market failures. Early child development is a pivotal link in human capital ...