de los municipios de México y condados de los Estados Unidos. Específicamente, se busca determinar si existe convergencia …. En cambio, en el caso de México se encuentra una dinámica congruente con crecimiento de la manufactura en los condados de … los Estados Unidos y los municipios de México diverge en el tiem …

-income Latin American countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru. It explores the role played by several …

This paper finds convergence of real per capita GDP in Mexico’s states and regions during the period of higher average …

result of low investment. Latin America is poorer because of lower human capital levels and lower TFP-not because of a lower … business climate indicators converge rapidly. Poor countries without those attributes do not. We show that low investment is …

public sector investment in determining both the extent and the speed of convergence. The paper also considers the importance … of the stock of human capital, trade orientation, and foreign direct investment in the long-run growth process. Empirical … the notion of differential effects of public and private investment on long-term growth, as well as for the convergence …