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saving and investment, irrationality of peasant behaviour, technological aspects of externalities and demographic parameters …. Further, it develops a model that is then used to analyse the specific problem of capital accumulation in agriculture …
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Savings Count -- 4 More and Better Saving for Productive Investment 5 Saving for Stability.-6 Running Out of Time: The …
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region’s export base is in general highly concentrated in a few industries and particularly biased towards natural …
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Latin American and Caribbean countries are the most urban in the developing world and have very high home ownership rates. However, many of the region's inhabitants are still poorly housed. This book examines three key contributing issues: high housing prices relative to family income, lack of...
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Age of Productivity offers a look at how the low productivity in Latin America and the Caribbean is preventing the region from catching up with the developed world. The authors look beyond the traditional macro explanations and dig all the way down to the industry and firm level to uncover the...
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The economic, political and social situation in Chile shows a country in transition. Some observers anticipate a broad “reboot” of the nation. While Chile is still seen by many as an example of progress in South America and of developmental potential in the global South, it faces a complex...
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between agriculture and other economic sectors, exploring the use of resources (land, labour, capital) and the influence of … notion that agriculture played a negligible role in promoting economic development in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries …
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This book challenges the wide-ranging generalizations that dominate the literature on the impact of export-led growth … upon Latin America during the first export era. The contributors to this volume contest conventional approaches, stemming … the successes of a region traditionally viewed as disadvantaged by globalization and export-led growth …
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This volume deals with macroeconomic issues and their relation with economic growth. Frustrating GDP growth has been a lasting feature of Latin American economies since the 1980s. Analyzing the policy measures that were taken in a bid to avoid costly mistakes and recover economic growth, this...
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This book analyses the development challenge faced by Latin America at a time at which the concerns for the large inequality in the region are at a peak. This volume focuses on growth-with-equity, and is written by an outstanding group of Latin American and international researchers and...
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