I have a new paper out by this title, which you can download here. It shows that unconditional convergence is alive and well, but that we need to look for it within manufacturing industries rather than the economy as a whole. Industries that start at lower levels of labor productivity grow faste...

The International Food Policy Research Institute has posted videos of the presentations from a conference in Ghana a few months back. My presentation on the paper Globalization, Structural Change, and Productivity Growth is here. My discussion of the policy implications in the second-best poli...

This is one that Charles Babbage received in 1821 from The Edinburgh Journal of Science "It is with no inconsiderable degree of reluctance that I decline the offer of any Paper from you. I think, however, you will upon reconsideration of the subject be of opinion that I have no other alternativ...