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To Offshore or Nearshore IT services? An investigation using transaction cost theory

Trampel, Julia - EconWPA - 2004

The phenomenon of offshoring, that is, the outsourcing of highly- qualified services into low wage countries was until … the controversial issue of the advantageousness of offshoring. The trend, which has been enforced by numerous consultants … validity. The following paper deals with the advantageousness of offshoring in the case of IT services. In order to detach …

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New Directions in Latin American Macroeconometrics

Jr, Thomas M Fullerton; Araki, Eiichi - EconWPA - 2004

An overview of modeling and forecasting methodologies for price trends and other macroeconomic variables in Latin America is provided. Five approaches are reviewed within the time series and econometric traditions from which they are selected. Each method is reviewed within the context of data...

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America Latina: Hambre y Alimentos en Abundancia

Lewin, Paul - EconWPA - 2005

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Fear of China: Is there a future for manufacturing in Latin America?

Moreira, Mauricio Mesquita - EconWPA - 2004

China’s emergence has raised pointed questions about the future of manufacturing in Latin America. Once saw as its economic future, the viability of this activity in the region has long been challenged by traditional trade theory and, in practical terms, by at least three generations of Asian...

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The Latin American and Caribbean Energy Review 2003

Garrón, Mauricio; Villarreal, Alejandro; Chiliquinga, Byron - EconWPA - 2005

The 2003 Energy review,contains information about the 2003 energy situation of each of our member countries, regional data, as well as economic and social indicators corrected and extended through historical series. It presents and innovative structure for analysis that allows the reader to...

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The Globalisation and its Implications for the Economic Development of Latin America

Blum, Matthias; Stosberg, Jörg - EconWPA - 2003

The process of globalisation has in several ways an impact on the Latin American Economies. The recent developments give a carefully optimistic view on the economic consequences for these countries. While all of the Latin American nations still lag behind the industrialised countries with...

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Issues on Agricultural Negotiations in the FTAA and Linkages With the Doha Round

Nogues, Julio J. - EconWPA - 2005

An FTAA that provides gains to all participants remains a major challenge for LA. Given the demanding pre-conditions required in these and other negotiations with industrial countries, I am unsure whether all LA countries will be able to confront this challenge successfully. It is of paramount...

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Factor Endowments, Trade Direction, and Growth Performances of the Americas and East Asia in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Lai, Hongyi Harry - EconWPA - 1997

Factor-endowment based trade with the leading economy helps to explain the differing development performances of the Americas and East Asia in the past two centuries. Between 1830 and 1945, labor-abundant Britain, the most advanced country, traded heavily with land-abundant countries in the...

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Does China have an impact on foreign direct investment to Latin America?

Santabarbara, Daniel; Garcia-Herrero, Alicia - EconWPA - 2005

We analyze empirically whether the emergence of China as a large recipient of FDI has affected the amount of FDI received by Latin American countries. For the longest time span possible given data availability (from 1984 to 2001), we do not find a substitution from Latin American inward FDI to...

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User's Guide to an Early Warning System for Macroeconomic Vulnerability in Latin American Countries

Herrera, Santiago; Garcia, Conrado A. - EconWPA - 2000

The object of this paper is to develop an Early Warning System of Macro Vulnerability for several Latin American countries based on previous work of Kaminsky, Lizondo and Reinhart (1997) and Kaminsky (1998). We build a composite leading indicator that signals macroeconomic vulnerability, showing...

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