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Should Latin America Save More to Grow Faster?

Torre, Augusto de la - 2017

A widely shared view holds that there is no policy-exploitable causal connection from saving to growth because domestic saving is fully endogenous, optimally determined, or substitutable by foreign saving. Yet, abandoning these assumptions, which are questionable in the real world of frictions,...

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On the Impact of Demographic Change on Growth, Savings, and Poverty

Cruz, Marcio José Vargas da - 2017

estimates the association between changes in the share of working-age population with per capita growth, savings, and poverty … gross domestic product per capita growth by more than one percentage point, with similarly positive effects on savings and …

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Savings, Financial Development, and Economic Growth in the Arab Republic of Egypt Revisited

Hussein, Khaled A. - 2017

Private savings play a pivotal role in financing development and sustaining growth. Recently, there have been many … theoretical developments that underpin key determinants of savings behavior, many of which merit empirical investigation …. Understanding the dynamics of the determinants of savings is crucial to inform economic policy and devise reform programs. This …

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Can Latin America Tap the Globalization Upside?

Torre, Augusto de la - 2017

reflection of relatively low domestic savings) may become an additional drag to growth by accentuating the risk of a low savings …

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Engineers, Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas

Maloney, William F. - 2017

This paper offers the first evidence on the prevalence of a central actor in modern growth theory?the engineer. Using newly collected sub-national, and international data as well as historical case studies, it then argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of...

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Crime and Violence in Development : A Literature Review of Latin America and the Caribbean

Heinemann, Alessandra - 2016

The authors review the recent literature on crime and violence in Latin America and the Caribbean and present a broad overview of the main ideas and empirical findings. They provide estimates of the magnitude of the problem, trends, and the manifestations of crime and violence in Latin America....

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Latin American Universities and the Third Mission : Trends, Challenges, and Policy Options

Thorn, Kristian - 2016

Universities in Latin America are increasingly considered instruments of social and economic development and face rising expectations in regard to supplying relevant skills, undertaking applied research, and engaging in commercial activity. The paper discusses trends and challenges within Latin...

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Latin American Growth : A Trade Perspective

Torre, Augusto de la - 2019

This paper reviews the determinants of Latin America's uneven growth based on an accounting decomposition that breaks down countries' growth (relative to the world) into three trade-related channels: (i) an export pull measuring the traction exerted by the country's exports, (ii) an external...

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Skills, Exports, and the Wages of Five Million Latin American Workers

Brambilla, Irene - 2017

The returns to schooling or the skill premium is a key parameter in various literatures, including globalization and inequality and international migration. This paper explores the skill premium and its link to exports in Latin America, thus linking the skill premium to the emerging literature...

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Urbanization and Development : Is Latin America and the Caribbean Different from the Rest of the World?

Roberts, Mark - 2017

Two long-established stylized facts in the urban and development economics literatures are that: (a) a country's level of economic development is strongly positively correlated with its level of urbanization; and (b) a country's level of urbanization is strongly negatively correlated with the...

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