Competing in the world economy does not automatically boost a nation's productivity and restructure its economy. Such … strategies to increase productivity and improve access by businesses to productive resources.Abstract: Participar en la economía …

; labor markets show lackluster performance, with low participation rates, high and persistent informality, and, in some cases …

Raising labor productivity is recognized as a critical factor for increasing economic growth and reducing poverty … levels in Latin America. Low levels of education continue to be singled out as the main obstacle to higher productivity in … additional policies should be pursued in order to ensure higher productivity for workers in the region. …

Total factor productivity (TFP) in Latin America has not increased since the mid- 1970s, and in many countries it has … 10 Latin American countries to quantify the heterogeneity of firm productivity and the degree of resource misallocation … within countries. Productivity heterogeneity and resource misallocation are found to be much larger than in the United States …

social costs, with a particular focus on Chile. The study concludes that the problem lies in the low productivity of the … manufacturing and service sectors. Given the increasing economic weight of the services sector in the region, its low productivity … has become an obstacle to aggregate productivity. The study suggests that an increase in productivity in the service …

This presentation aims to understand what is behind aggregate productivity and how it grows, expanding the scope beyond … productivity (TFP) to reflect market inefficiencies. The authors show that improving the efficiency of markets is another route … towards higher productivity and income growth, and that there is a need to look at what is happening at all sectors of the …