With a new development framework under way and an increasingly urgent need to address political, socioeconomic and … environmental issues on a global scale, this is a critical moment for the international development agenda. Almost 15 years after … the Millennium Declaration, a new phase for international development is about to begin and, with it, comes the …

and recent adoption by donors and multilateral development banks, there is limited empirical evidence supporting this form …

This paper combines development and growth accounting exercises with economic theory to estimate the relative … importance of total factor productivity and the accumulation of factors of production in the economic development performance of … Latin America. The region s development performance is assessed by contrast with various alternative benchmarks, both …