The paper analyzes Jamaica's experience of low growth despite consistently high investment. Cross-country analysis provides evidence of a significant and negative relationship between total public debt and productivity growth. Looking at the specific channels through which high debt affects...

In this work we made an empirical application of the model of Romer (1993) for the 32 states of Mexico on period 1990-2000, in order to determine if this country faces a gap of physical goods or a technological gap in the ample sense (that is to say, that inlcluye knowledge and ideas). We found...

The aim of this paper is to study the regional inequalities in the enlarged European Union using Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis applied to per capita GDP for 258 European regions over the period 1995-2000. Strong evidence in favor of global and local autocorrelation as well as spatial...

We examine the contribution of FDI on poverty reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa from 1990 to 2005. The effects of FDI on poverty are analyzed through two mechanisms: institutional and economic. First, analyzing the institutional mechanism by a principal component analysis, we find out that...

Presents the experiences, strategies and problems, and particularly its social impact relating to reforms in the port of Veracruz, Mexico.

Une analyse de pauvreté basée sur une approche non monétaire permet de cerner plusieurs aspects du phénomène de la pauvreté qui ne sont pas toujours ciblés par l’approche monétaire. Une analyse de pauvreté basée sur la combinaison des deux approches permet alors de mesurer ce...