En "La evolución geográfica de la productividad y el empleo: Ideas para lograr un crecimiento inclusivo a través de una perspectiva territorial en América Latina y el Caribe” se utiliza una perspectiva territorial para comprender las tasas de crecimiento económico persistentemente bajas...

The paper documents the evolution of territorial disparities in labor and location productivity in 14 countries in Latin America, using millions of observations from harmonized household surveys and censuses. Between the early 2000s and the late 2010s, most countries in the region experienced...

La región de América Latina y el Caribe (ALC) demostró ser relativamente resiliente ante el aumento del estrés de deuda, la inflación persistente y la incertidumbre en torno a la invasión rusa de Ucrania. Los niveles de ingreso y de empleo en general se recuperaron tras la pandemia, la...

This study analyzes whether subjective well-being measures can explain variation in peaceful uprisings, in addition to the objective measures typically used in analyses of uprisings. Using a database combining data on uprisings and subjective well-being for 118 countries over the period 2007 to...

Plagued by war, violence and low oil prices, economic activity in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region remained subdued between 2013 and 2015, but the situation is expected to improve and growth to surge above 3 percent over the forecast period. Though still below potential, the...

Using geo-coded, firm-level data on more than 51,000 establishments in 649 metropolitan areas in 98 developing economies, from the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys and a new global database on city-level mobility and congestion, this paper estimates the "pure” firm productivity gains of urban...

After increasing for years and reaching high levels, Brazil's subjective well-being deteriorated following the economic contraction in 2015. Using data from the Gallup World Poll for the 2010s, this paper identifies the factors that underpin Brazil's subjective well-being and its change, paying...

Using fine-grained spatial data and a dynamic spatial general equilibrium model, this paper assesses the magnitude of mobility frictions in Latin America as well as the effects of their reduction on spatial development in the region. The results suggest that in most Latin American countries,...

Cities dramatically vary in their sectoral composition across the world, lending credence to the theory that some cities are production cities with high employment shares of urban tradables while others are consumption cities with high shares of urban non-tradables . A model of structural change...