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The Political Economy of Productivity in Argentina: Interpretation and Illustration

Urbiztondo, Santiago; Cristini, Marcela; Moskovitz, Cynthia - Inter-American Development Bank - 2009

This paper examines how the main characteristics of Argentina’s policymaking process (PMP) affect the productivity of its economy using the conceptual framework presented in Murillo, Scartascini and Tommasi (2008), Stein et al. (2008), Spiller and Tommasi (2007), and IDB (2005). First, the...

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Politics, Policies and the Dynamics of Aggregate Productivity in Colombia

Eslava, Marcela; Melendez, Marcela - Inter-American Development Bank - 2009

This paper describes private actors’ involvement in Colombia’s policymaking process. While more transparent and formal channels are used to discuss horizontal policies, they are also less effective. The adoption of targeted policies, however, follows a faster track and depends more on...

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Policy Benchmarking for Productivity and Growth: Review and Proposed Framework for the Caribbean

Melgarejo, Karl Alexander; D'Acosta, Michael; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013

This paper contributes to the analysis of the Caribbean's growth performance by setting out a framework for benchmarking indicators of key micro drivers and related structural policies that help explain differentials in productivity and real GDP per capita across the region, and relative to...

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Competitiveness: Sector Strategy (2003)

Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2003

knowledge and technologies by means of diagnosing science and technology systems, strengthening institutions for science and … creation of more effective institutions to support private productive activities, so as to promote the modernization of public … institutions that support private productive activities; and F) The productive and sustainable management of natural resources, for …

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Firm innovation and productivity in Latin America and the Caribbean : the engine of economic development

Grazzi, Matteo (ed.); Pietrobelli, Carlo (ed.) - 2016

This volume uses the study of firm dynamics to investigate the factors preventing faster productivity growth in Latin America and the Caribbean, pushing past the limits of traditional macroeconomic analyses. Each chapter is dedicated to an examination of a different factor affecting firm...

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Firm innovation and productivity in Latin America and the Caribbean : the engine of economic development

Grazzi, Matteo (ed.); Pietrobelli, Carlo (ed.) - 2016

This volume uses the study of firm dynamics to investigate the factors preventing faster productivity growth in Latin America and the Caribbean. Each chapter is dedicated to an examination of a different factor affecting firm productivity - innovation, ICT usage, on-the-job-training, firm age,...

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