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Revitalizing the Jamaican Economy: Policies for Sustained Growth

Thomas, Desmond; Artana, Daniel; Zavala, Emilio Osambela; … - Inter-American Development Bank

Revitalizing the Jamaican Economy: Policies for Sustained Growth aims to improve our understanding of the constraints to social and economic development in Jamaica. It also proposes practical solutions to overcome some of those problems. This book is a collection of studies commissioned by the...

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Job Creation in Latin America and the Caribbean: Recent Trends and Policy Challenges

Pagés-Serra, Carmen; Scarpetta, Stefano; Pierre, Gaëlle - Inter-American Development Bank

More than a decade has passed since the introduction of comprehensive macroeconomic stabilization packages and trade, fiscal, and financial market reforms in Latin America and the Caribbean. However, growth prospects remain disappointing; labor markets show lackluster performance, with low...

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Sources of Growth in Latin America: What Is Missing?

Blyde, Juan; Fernández-Arias, Eduardo; Gill, Indermit S.; … - Inter-American Development Bank

The country studies and their background papers included in this book were prepared for the Latin America and the Caribbean section of the "Global Research Project: Explaining Growth" of the Global Development Network (GDN), a research effort conducted in association with the Latin American and...

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What Difference Do Unions Make?: Their Impact on Productivity and Wages in Latin America

Murillo, Maria Victoria; Carmen Urízar H.; … - Inter-American Development Bank

productivity or an intrusion of politics into the workplace. In spite of these strong opinions, the effects of unions in Latin … impact of unions on private-sector firm performance, agricultural productivity, and educational outcomes in public school …

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Dealing with Negative Oil Shocks: The Venezuelan Experience in the Eighties

Hausmann, Ricardo - Inter-American Development Bank - 1995

The Venezuelan experience in the 1980s is a particularly fertile ground for the analysis of negative shocks. Two large shocks took place under very different control regimes, thus highlighting the role the institutional setting plays in determining the response. Moreover, the experience can shed...

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Partial Credit Guarantees and Firm Performance: Evidence from the Colombian National Guarantee Fund

Stucchi, Rodolfo; Arráiz, Irani; Arjona, Marcela Meléndez - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

by the NGF are able to grow in terms of both output and employment. However, we did not find any effect on productivity …

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The Political Economy of Productivity: The Case of Chile

Navia, Patricio; Eyzaguirre, Nicolás; Olivari, Jocelyn; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

This paper analyzes the political economy of productivity-related policymaking in Chile following a political … productivity at this stage; and ii) the Chilean PMP is less transparent than previously thought (Aninat et al., 2008), thus …

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Innovation, R&D Investment and Productivity in Chile

Alvarez, Roberto; Ortega, Claudio Bravo; Navarro, Lucas - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

process innovation on productivity in the Chilean manufacturing industry during the past decade. In general, the evidence … suggests there is not a contemporaneous effect of product innovation on productivity, but there is a positive effect of process …, the results show the presence of lagged effects product innovation on productivity two years after innovation. Compared …

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Shaky Roads and Trembling Exports: Assessing the Trade Effects of Domestic Infrastructure Using a Natural Experiment

Blyde, Juan; Martincus, Christian Volpe - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

Our knowledge of the trade effects of domestic infrastructure is very limited. The reason is twofold. First, data needed to examine these effects are not readily available. Second, identifying such effects requires properly addressing potential endogeneity problems affecting the relationship...

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Innovation, R&D and Productivity: Case Studies from Peru

Kuramoto, Juana R. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

This paper analyzes quantitative findings on the innovative behavior of firms in the production chains of pisco and shoe manufacture in Peru, which are served by the network of Technological Innovation Centers (CITEs), the most important technology policy instrument available in Peru. These two...

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