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The material within these pages shows that Barbados, a Caribbean country with just over a quarter of a million people, embodies many of the classic vulnerabilities of an island with a small open economy, yet aspires to developed-country status, and is already well advanced on the road to...
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The material within these pages shows that Barbados, a Caribbean country with just over a quarter of a million people, embodies many of the classic vulnerabilities of an island with a small open economy, yet aspires to developed-country status, and is already well advanced on the road to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943497
multiple treatment setting. Results show that these programs have generally been associated with increases in employment and … productivity, but the impact is heterogeneous across programs and indicators of firm performance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010653084
Broadband plays a key role in society, impacting GDP, productivity, and employment. In the Latin American and Caribbean … associated with 3.19 percent higher GDP, 2.61 percent higher productivity, and 67,016 new jobs. It also defines the variables …
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This study examines the impact of innovation strategies on employment growth in four Latin American countries … model proposed by Harrison et al. (2008), we relate employment to three innovation strategies: make only (R&D), buy only … employment; the "make and buy" strategy comes in second. Similar results are found for small firms. These results highlight the …
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multiple treatment setting. Results show that these programs have generally been associated with increases in employment and … productivity, but the impact is heterogeneous across programs and indicators of firm performance. …
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This paper studies the impact of trade liberalization on labor and capital gross flows and productivity in the … capital were accompanied by an increase in total factor productivity, especially in sectors where tariff reductions were … larger and unions were not present. The authors found no evidence of varying productivity dynamics across different industry …
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Broadband plays a key role in society, impacting GDP, productivity, and employment. In the Latin American and Caribbean … associated with 3.19 percent higher GDP, 2.61 percent higher productivity, and 67,016 new jobs. It also defines the variables …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010673377
Analyzing the experience of Mexico under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), 'Lessons from NAFTA' aims to provide guidance to Latin American and Caribbean countries considering free trade agreements with the United States. The authors conclude that the treaty raised external trade...
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promoting convergence and accumulation among the existing agreements. …
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