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...

This presentation discusses economic growth and development in the Dominican Republic from the 1990s to 2006. The presentation contains detailed graphics on the transformation of the economic structure and concludes with resulting working hypotheses.

This presentation comments on John Weiss' Export Growth and Industrial Policy: Lesson from the East Asian Miracle Experience. The presentation took place at the 2005 LAEBA Second Annual Conference, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 28-29 November. The paper focuses on whether industrial policy is still...

The IDB's Integration & Trade Journal includes articles on the different aspects of integration in Latin America and the Caribbean, on hemispheric integration and, furthermore, on similar processes in other parts of the world. The aim is to address the topics included herein from a remarkably...

This presentation corresponds to the study "Growth Diagnostics for Argentina" The study is organized on the basis of the growth-diagnostics methodology (GDM). Since Argentina is already growing at a high rate, the main concern of the study is to explore how the country can sustain the current...

This is the last version available of "Growth Diagnostics for Argentina". The study is organized on the basis of the growth-diagnostics methodology (GDM). In the last four years Argentina has experienced a substantial acceleration in growth. The 2002-2006 average annual growth rate was close to...

This paper examines the growth experiences of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay (Southern Cone countries). The analysis sheds light on the strengths and weaknesses of long-run growth of these countries by identifying similarities and differences with other countries and assesses...

In order to analyze how satisfactory the growth process in Latin America has been over the past 40 years it is important to make relevant comparisons with other experiences. To tackle this issue, the authors focus on the per capita economic growth rate and its contributing factors, comparing the...

Why are growth rates in Latin America so disappointing? This book reviews the results of an ambitious research project to determine the binding constraints to growth, that is, the barrier whose removal would yield the greatest benefit in terms of growth. Included are case studies from seven...