Development and Growth in Mineral-Rich Countries
Presentation at the International Wuppertal Colloquium on Sustainable Growth, Resource Productivity and Sustainable Industrial Policy, in Wuppertal, Germany, 17–19 September 2008.
Development and growth in mineral-rich countries
Í Sustainable Growth and Resource Productivity: Economic and Global Policy Issues, ritstj. Raimund Bleischwitz, Paul J.J. Welfens og ZhongXiang Zhang.
Oil management: Norway’s example
Norwegian children are taught at school that Norway was Europe‘s most impoverished country in 1905, when the Norwegians unilaterally dissolved […]
Governance and growth: Why does Georgia lag behind Estonia?
The development gap between former Soviet states is striking – top performers like Estonia have joined the European Union while […]
Iceland and its financial predicament: History and context
Understanding Iceland and its current financial predicament requires some history and context. Here Iceland’s best known professor of economics explains […]
IMF Institute Lectures
Lectures held in Pretoria, South Africa, July 2008. Lecture 1: Sources of Economic Growth (New version) Lecture 2: Alternative Views of the […]
Norway’s Wealth: Not Just Oil
Norwegians enjoy a very high standard of living. Is it due to their oil? This column describes the country’s impressive […]
Determinants of economic growth: A comparative analysis of Estonia and Georgia
Skrifað ásamt Eduard Hochreiter, í Economic Transformation of Central and Eastern European Countries, Conference Proceedings. Abstract We study and […]
Development and Growth in Mineral-Rich Countries
Presentation at the Sixth ESCB workshop on emerging markets at the Bank of Finland, in Helsinki, 8-9 May 2008. Also presented […]
Democracy and Growth
Public lecture at the The Finnish Economic Assocation, in Helsinki.