CAUSAL INFLUENCES ON PRODUCTIVITY PERFORMANCE 1820-1992 - A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE

This paper has three main purposes: a) it uses a comparative quantitat ive framework to demonstrate the pace of economic growth in different parts of the world economy since 1820, and to identify the major cause s which have been operative; b) it analyses the different approaches w hich economists have developed to interpret proximate growth causality ; and (c) it reviews the role of institutions and other deeper and les s measurable influences on growth performance.