Economic Growth

Solow Growth Model
A comprehensive look at the Solow growth model, a fundamental concept in economics explaining economic growth through capital accumulation.
Solow residual
Understanding the Solow residual in economic growth accounting, its importance, and applications.
Export-led Growth
Growth in which exports increase faster than other components of national expenditure.
Urban Economics
The study of the economics of urban areas including factors influencing the growth of towns and metropolitan areas, and challenges unique to conurbations.
Adoption
The take-up of new technology by firms or consumers linked to economic growth.
Capital Widening
A situation when the capital stock grows at the same rate as the labour force, so that the capital–labour ratio remains constant, while the aggregate output continues to grow.
Catch-up
Economic convergence in income per capita through knowledge and technology spillovers from developed to less developed countries.
Creative Destruction
A model of economic growth driven by quality-improving innovations that make old technologies or products obsolete.
Disembodied Technical Progress
Improvements in technical knowledge that increase output without needing new equipment investments.
East Asian Tigers
An exploration of the rapid economic growth experienced by Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan since the 1950s.
Economic Activity
An exploration of the production and consumption of goods and services in both market and non-market forms.
Economic Convergence
A detailed exploration of the tendency for economies to become increasingly similar over time.
Economic Growth
An overview of the concept of economic growth and its significance in economics.
Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981
US legislation enacted to encourage economic growth through reductions in individual income tax rates, incentives for small businesses, and other measures.
Embodied Technical Progress
Improvements in technical knowledge exploited through investment in new equipment.
Endogenous Growth
Economic growth where the growth rate is determined by the choices of economic agents.
Growth Model
An economic framework used to understand the factors contributing to economic growth over a period of time.
Growth Rate
The proportional or percentage rate of increase of any economic variable over a unit period, often applied to yearly intervals.
Human Capital
The stock of knowledge, skills, and abilities that determine the labor productivity of an individual.
Immiserizing Growth
Growth of national or regional production which actually decreases welfare.
Investment in Knowledge
Expenditure on research and development, higher education, and software to ensure economic growth through technological advancement.
Locomotive Principle
The principle describing how growth in leading sectors or countries can drive wider economic expansion.
Natural Growth Rate
The growth rate of national income which maintains a constant unemployment rate, factoring in labor force growth and technical progress.
Optimal Growth Theory
The analysis of the best growth path for an economy by balancing current utility loss and future utility gain. See also golden rule.
Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility
A division within the International Monetary Fund focused on concessional lending and debt relief for the world's poorest countries.
Rate of Growth
Economic analysis of the rate of growth, dealing with rates at which key economic indicators increase over a period.
Stages of Economic Growth
The theory that countries develop through a series of modes of economic organization, each leading to the next.
Stagnation
A situation in which there is little or no change in techniques or income levels.
Supply-Side Economics
An overview of supply-side economics, focusing on its core principles, historical context, and its contrast with Keynesian economics.
Two-Sector Endogenous Growth Model
A model in which physical and human capitals are produced in different sectors, leading to endogenous steady-state growth.
Under-developed Countries
A comprehensive entry on under-developed countries, offering definitions, historical context, and analytical frameworks.
Wagner’s Law
An observation by Adolph Wagner on the increasing share of the public sector in GDP over time