This volume uses the study of firm dynamics to investigate the factors preventing faster productivity growth in Latin … examination of a different factor affecting firm productivity - innovation, ICT usage, on-the-job-training, firm age, access to … Innovation Dynamics and Productivity: Evidence for Latin America -- 3 Innovative Activity in the Caribbean: Drivers, Benefits …

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 …

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 …

The review examines how higher education institutions are supporting innovation and entrepreneurship in their …

for promoting higher productivity and welfare than policies encouraging entrepreneurship. … business characteristics, finding that entrepreneurship is rare but more frequent in the upper class than the middle or lower …-class entrepreneurs' activity is an engine for economic growth. Instead, the findings suggest that the types of businesses run by these …

This paper uses datasets from six surveys to describe entrepreneurship in Argentina. While the quantity of … entrepreneurship in Argentina is high, its quality is low, given the high proportion of informal and necessity entrepreneurs. Income is … found to play a greater role in determining probability of becoming an entrepreneur than parental wealth; entrepreneurship …

This paper revisits economic growth in Colombia using a growth diagnostics methodology to identify the most binding … constraints for economic growth and the policies that, if implemented, can have the largest positive impact. The data shows … for economic growth, independent of whether uncertainties from poor protection to property rights are resolved. …