The Sources of Economic Growth: An Overview

Economic Growth: Sources, Trends, and Cycles, edited by Norman Loayza and Raimundo Soto, in Series on Central Banking, Analysis, and Economic Policies.

This article is part of the conference "The Challenges of Economic Growth" organized by the Central Bank of Chile in November 2001. It summarizes the development and the state of the art on economic growth literature and critically discusses the main theoretical and empirical insights provided by the papers presented at the conference.