The objective of this article is to measure and to analyze total factor productivity – TFP- growth in the Bogota manufacturing industry over the period 1985-2005. From the early 90s Colombia applied several policy actions aiming at increasing trade openness of its economy. Taking this into...

The objective of this article is to determine the effects of different components of government spending on the per capita economic growth rate in a set of Latin American countries over the period 1975-2000. Within the neoclassical framework (Solow, 1956; Swan, 1956), government spending, and public...

The purpose of the paper is to measure and to analyze total factor productivity -- TFP -- growth in the Colombian manufacturing industry over the period 1985-2007. During this period, specifically from the early 90s, Colombia applied several policy actions aiming at increasing trade openness of...