 | Inter-American Development Bank - 2000 - 209 pages
...for these variables: conditional on other variables, poorer countries catch up by growing faster, and output is an increasing function of education, life...openness, and the quality of public institutions. 52 See Table 2 in Gallup, Sachs and Mellinger (1999). 53 Notice that we lack a synthetic indicator... | |
 | John Luke Gallup, Alejandro Gaviria, Eduardo Lora - 2003 - 192 pages
...for these variables: conditional on other variables, poorer countries catch up by growing faster, and output is an increasing function of education, life...openness, and the quality of public institutions. We stress the fact that these results are conditional on other factors because, as we have seen, a... | |
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Pop 100km are highly significant and of the expected sign. All other things being equal, annual growth is 0.9 percentage points lower in tropical countries than in nontropical countries. Annual growth in landlocked countries (Pop 100km = 0) is 1.0 percentage... 