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LIBERALIZATION, PUBLIC SPENDING AND CONVERGENCE IN LATIN AMERICA: AN SPATIAL ECONOMETRIC MODEL

Jorge E, Mendoza - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

results showed conditional convergence for the region from 1950 to 1975, and both absolute and conditional divergence from …

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Testing for Stochastic and Beta-convergence in Latin American Countries

Escobari, Diego - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper uses time-series data from nineteen Latin American countries and the U.S. to test for income convergence … using two existing definitions of convergence and a new testable definition of β-convergence. Only Dominican Republic and … convergence exists when allowing for structural breaks using the two-break minimum LM unit root of Lee and Strazicich (2003). The …

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Convergence Clubs determined by Economic History in Latin America

Quiroga, Barrientos; Andrea, Paola - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The concept of club convergence has been widely used in empirical analysis to group countries in clubs with similar … test convergence within each club. I find significant and positive convergence speed within each of the clubs, implying …

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The great equalizer?: Globalization effects on gender equality in Latin America and the Caribbean

Seguino, Stephanie - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This paper assesses the impact of 30 years of globalization on gender equity in well-being in Latin America and the Caribbean. Data indicate that while some gaps in well-being have narrowed, progress is uneven across a set of nine indicators, and in some cases, conditions have worsened. Despite...

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The Influence of Religious Beliefs and Ethnic Diversity on the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Latin America and Muslim Countries

DelaCruz, Juan J - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

In the absence of substantial differences in the growth rates of per capita GDP across countries, what are the factors that explain the rapid spread of the HIV infection within a nation? This is an empirical question that needs to be explained. In order to elucidate the correlation between HIV...

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Foreign Debt and Domestic Savings In Developing Countries

Luke, Okafor; Joanna, Tyrowicz - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper approaches the question of potential causality between foreign debt and domestic savings in the context of developing countries. Literature provides evidence in as far as foreign debt and development is concerned, but little attention was given so far to internal potential for capital...

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Structural Transformation in Developed and Developing Countries

Bah, El-hadj M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Dierences in key features of the development process across rich and poor countries can provide clues to the sources of the large variation of cross- country income. Kuznets included structural transformation as one of six stylized facts of economic development, nding that developed countries...

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Economic Size and Debt Sustainability against Piketty's Capital Inequality

cho, hyejin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This article presents a methodology designed to facilitate alternative variables measuring economic growth. A capital-labor split of Cobb-Douglas function is adapted for use in the context of economic growth. A capital/income ratio and two fundamental law of capitalism originated by Thomas...

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Brazil’s Place in the Global Economy

Porzecanski, Arturo C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Brazil is a country with long-standing ambitions for a major role in the world economy and in global governance, but its footprint in various measures of both remains relatively modest. On current trends, the gap between ambition and achievement will likely remain large, so we provide a critique...

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FDI in Peru and Uzbekistan: A comparative analysis in brief

Metaxas, Theodore; Kechagia, Polyxeni - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

The majority of the developing economies worldwide use foreign capitals inflow so as to achieve economic growth. The host countries proceed to economic and political transformations so as to improve their attractiveness and to become top foreign direct investment destinations. In addition, the...

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