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This study is a first contribution to prioritization across productivity determinant capabilities that attempts to obtain the equivalent of a "shadow price" for each of these capabilities by estimating their impact on the success a country may have in reaching higher income per capita groups....
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that reduce growth and thwart poverty reduction efforts. The argument of this paper is that there are various possible … helps to understand the high levels of inequality. The contemporary fiscal version of that assertion goes something like … macroeconomic imbalances, high inflation, low growth, as well as low-quality public policies. When redistributive efforts are short …
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This paper examines the aggregate implications of size-dependent distortions. These regulations misallocate labor across firms and hence reduce aggregate productivity. It then considers a case-study of labor laws in France where firms that have 50 employees or more face substantially more...
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This paper provides estimates of the impact of demographic change on labor productivity growth, relying on annual data … population shares have significantly negative effects on labor productivity growth, working via various channels - including …
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We consider the relationship between tourism and economic growth for Latin American countries since 1985 until 1998 … estimates of the relationship between economic growth and growth in tourists per capita conditional on main macroeconomic … variables. We show that the tourism sector is adequate for the economic growth of medium or low-income countries, though not …
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development in Latin America is unequal. Inequality in results appears as early as 24 months and increases with age. There is … variation in inequality. For example, correlations with the socio-economic characteristics of the home and maternal education …
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This paper seeks to identify the most promising fiscal strategy to boost long-term economic growth in Argentina and … quantify its effects. To this end, the authors updated a growth-diagnostics study for Argentina and corroborated that low … improved appropriability and long-term growth. …
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economic development and growth is still in its infancy. In order to facilitate further necessary research on this topic, this …
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