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The incidence of recent child health improvements in Africa
Sahn, David E.; Younger, Stephen D. - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010380061
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The productivity gap in Latin America : lessons from 50 years of development
Fernández Arias, Eduardo; Rodríguez-Apolinar, Sergio - 2016
This paper combines development accounting exercises with economic theory to assess the importance of total factor productivity and the accumulation of factors of production as engines of growth in Latin America. Using the new, drastically revised Penn World Table (PWT) and Barro-Lee datasets,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011472124
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On the role of productivity and factor accumulation in economic development in Latin America and the Caribbean
Daude, Christian; Fernández Arias, Eduardo - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010247133
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Institutions do not rule : reassessing the driving forces of economic development
Wen, Yi; Luo, Jinfeng - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010518018
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Autocracies and development in a global economy : a tale of two elites
Akerman, Anders; Seim, Anna Larsson; Naghavi, Alireza - 2011
Data on the growth performances of countries with similar comparative (dis)advantage and political institutions reveal a striking variation across world regions. While some former autocracies such as the East Asian growth miracles have done remarkably well, others such as the Latin American...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009298306
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Current account deficits and capital flows in East Asia and Latin America : are the nineties different from the early eighties?
Milesi-Ferretti, Gian Maria; Razin, Asaf - 1997
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000965590
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The cyclicality of international public sector borrowing in developing countries : does the lender matter?
Galindo Andrade, Arturo José; Panizza, Ugo - 2017
The paper shows that international government borrowing from multilateral development banks is countercyclical while international government borrowing form private sector lenders is procyclical. The countercyclicality of official lending is mostly driven by the behavior of the World Bank...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011784486
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The making of an economic superpower : unlocking China’s secret of rapid industrialization
Wen, Yi - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010517990
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The visible hand : the role of government in China's long-awaited industrial revolution
Fortier, George E.; Wen, Yi - 2016
fundamental mechanisms behind China's rapid industrialization. This article reviews the New Stage Theory of economic development … Xiaoping in 1978: namely, small-scale commercialized agricultural production, proto-industrialization in the countryside, a …'s economic rise is that the extent of industrialization is limited by the extent of the market. One of the key strategies behind …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011539803
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Gender inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean
Berniell, Inés; Fernández, Raquel; Krutikova, Sonya - 2023
This chapter examines gender inequality, focusing on two critical spheres in which gender inequality is generated: education and work. The objective is to provide a current snapshot of gender inequality across key indicators as well as a dynamic perspective that highlights successes and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014540560