The direct cause of WWI was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo on 28 June 1914. However historians feel that a number of factors contributed to the rivalry between the Great powers that allowed war on such a wide-scale to break out.
Answer
Economic growth
Explanation
According to the Solow Growth Model, economist Robert Solow found that greatest stimulus to economic growth originates from technology, resources and institutions. This model explains the long-run economic growth by defining capital accumulation, population growth and increased productivity collectively referred to as technological progress. The model predicts conditional convergence, which is to say for example countries that have similar characteristics converge to the same steady state, equal saving rates.
The present, political and economic reforms reshaped interstate relations. This has accelerated changes caused by the other significant events in the period.
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