sufficient to finance services to farmers. The broad challenge is to encourage both large- and small-scale private investment. …

panel data models with country-specific fixed effects. The empirical results show that the most robust growth determinants … are the price of investment goods, distance to major world cities, and political rights. This suggests that growth …-promoting policy strategies should aim to reduce taxes and distortions that raise the prices of investment goods; improve access to …

training. They use a panel of large firms with unusually detailed information on the duration of training, the direct costs of … and 24 percent for those providing training. Formal job training is a good investment for many firms and the economy …

. This paper shows how dynamic pseudo-panel methods can overcome these difficulties, allowing estimation of non-linear income … Mexico and are compared to panel data estimates from a short rotating panel. The results do find evidence of nonlinearities … in household income dynamics and demonstrate large bias in the panel data estimates. Nevertheless, even after allowing …

and of the flexibility and freedom of its labor market. But estimation of mobility using panel data is biased by the … presence of measurement error and non-random attrition from the panel. This paper shows that dynamic pseudo-panel methods can …-classical measurement errors. These methods are applied to data on earnings from a Mexican quarterly rotating panel. Absolute mobility in …

probability of a crisis are of the expected sign. The panel data set covers the time period 1973 through 2003 for 90 countries …