Deichmann, UweRoberts, Mark2012-03-192012-03-192009-12-01https://hdl.handle.net/10986/4346There is significant academic evidence that growth in one country tends to have a positive impact on growth in neighboring countries. This paper contributes to this literature by assessing whether growth spillovers tend to vary significantly across world regions and by investigating the contribution of transport and communication infrastructure in promoting neighborhood effects. The study is global, but the main interest is on Sub-Saharan Africa. The authors define neighborhoods both in geographic terms and by membership in the same regional trade association. The analysis finds significant evidence for heterogeneity in growth spillovers, which are strong between OECD countries and essentially absent in Sub-Saharan Africa. The analysis further finds strong interaction between infrastructure and being a landlocked country. This suggests that growth spillovers from regional "success stories" in Sub-Saharan Africa and other lagging world regions will depend on first strengthening the channels through which such spillovers can spread -- most importantly infrastructure endowments.CC BY 3.0 IGOABSOLUTE TERMSANNUAL GROWTHANNUAL GROWTH RATEAVERAGE ANNUAL GROWTHAVERAGE GROWTHAVERAGE GROWTH RATECONVERGENCE DEBATECONVERGENCE EQUATIONSCOUNTRY SPECIFICCROSS^ COUNTRYDEPENDENT VARIABLEDETERMINANTS OF GROWTHDEVELOPING COUNTRIESDEVELOPING WORLDDEVELOPMENT ECONOMICSDEVELOPMENT POLICIESDEVELOPMENT REPORTDEVELOPMENT RESEARCHDEVELOPMENT STRATEGYDRIVINGDYNAMIC PANELECONOMETRICSECONOMIC COOPERATIONECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTECONOMIC GEOGRAPHYECONOMIC GROWTHECONOMICSEMPIRICAL EVIDENCEEMPIRICAL GROWTH LITERATUREEMPIRICAL LITERATUREESTIMATED COEFFICIENTESTIMATED COEFFICIENTSESTIMATION TECHNIQUESEXOGENOUS CONTROL VARIABLESEXPLANATORY VARIABLESEXPORTSEXTERNALITIESFINANCIAL CRISISFIRST YEARFIXED EFFECTSFREE TRADEGDPGDP PER CAPITAGLOBAL ECONOMYGOVERNMENT EXPENDITUREGROWTH OF NATIONSGROWTH PATTERNGROWTH PERFORMANCEGROWTH PROCESSGROWTH RATEGROWTH RATESGROWTH REGRESSIONGROWTH REGRESSIONSGROWTH THEORYHUMAN CAPITALINCOMEINCOME LEVELSINCOME PER CAPITAINCREASING RETURNSINDEPENDENT VARIABLESINDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRIESINFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENTINTERMEDIATE GOODSLAGGED DEPENDENTLAGGED VALUESLANDLOCKED ^ COUNTRIESLANDLOCKED COUNTRIESLONG-RUN GROWTHLONG-TERM GROWTHMODEL OF GROWTHMULTIPLIER EFFECTMULTIPLIER EFFECTSMULTIPLIERSNEGATIVE IMPACTNEIGHBORHOODS0 HYPOTHESISPANEL FRAMEWORKPER CAPITA GROWTHPOLICY CHANGEPOLICY CHANGESPOLICY RESEARCHPOLITICAL ECONOMYPOLITICAL INSTABILITYPOOR GROWTHPOPULATION GROWTHPRODUCTION FUNCTIONPROMOTING GROWTHRAILRAIL NETWORKSRAILWAYSREAL GDPREGIONAL GROWTHREGIONAL SCIENCEREGRESSION ANALYSISRETURNS TO SCALERICH COUNTRIESROADROAD NETWORKROADSSECTOR MODELSHORT-RUN GROWTHSIGNIFICANT EVIDENCESPATIAL ECONOMICSSTANDARD DEVIATIONTELECOMMUNICATIONSTFPTOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITYTRADE NEGOTIATIONSTRANSPORTTRANSPORT COSTSTRANSPORT SERVICESTRANSPORTATIONTRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURETRUEUNDERESTIMATESWORLD TRADE ORGANIZATIONWTOWorld Bank10.1596/1813-9450-5153