Caribbean section of the "Global Research Project: Explaining Growth" of the Global Development Network (GDN), a research effort … falling behind. The growth record of Latin America in the recent past has been poor. For decades the average income per capita …

Caribbean section of the "Global Research Project: Explaining Growth" of the Global Development Network (GDN), a research effort … falling behind. The growth record of Latin America in the recent past has been poor. For decades the average income per capita …

reports a strong correlation between labor formality and firm performance measured as output and employment growth. A one … employment growth. …

accounting books specification, robust results are obtained, supporting a significant and positive effect of credit growth on …

allocated to political allies is ineffective for growth, whereas aid extended to countries that are not allies is highly …

This paper models the impact on economic growth of HIV/AIDS when the epidemic is in a mature phase, in contrast with … epidemic in Central America, show that AIDS is not likely to threaten economic growth through either labor or capital … accumulation channels; impacts are estimated between 0.007 and 0.27 percent points of GDP growth annually for the period 2001 …