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Human capital, productivity and physical capital are considered the main factors in the economies’ GDP per capita …
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capital may directly influence productivity by determining the capacity of nations to innovate new technologies suited to …
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This study explores the productivity performance of the Brazilian economy between 1970 and 1998. We assess how much of … distortions, human capital, and investment in specific technology. We conclude that the downfall in productivity is quite robust …
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The Brazilian municipalities show a huge disparity in income level. The GDP per capita difference between the richest and the poorest municipalities is about 190 times, according to IBGE (2000) database. Institutionalist theory provides a plausible explanation for the gap among municipalities...
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The Brazilian municipalities show a huge disparity in income level. The GDP per capita difference between the richest and the poorest municipalities is about 190 times, according to IBGE (2000) database. Institutionalist theory provides a plausible explanation for the gap among municipalities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330521
The exchange rate affects the economy productive structure through its impact on the external sector. Some empirical studies suggest that the recent process of exchange rate evaluation in the Brazilian economy has a significant impact on some of its key sectors competitiveness, disturbing...
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The Brazilian municipalities show a huge disparity in income level. The GDP per capita difference between the richest and the poorest municipalities is about 190 times, according to IBGE (2000) database. Institutionalist theory provides a plausible explanation for the gap among municipalities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009231228
In this article, we investigated which of the convergence hypotheses - absolute, conditional or club - best describes the movement of the income per worker for the countries of Latin America and East Asia between 1960 and 2000 using the methodology proposed by Johnson and Takeyama (2003). The...
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In this paper, we evaluate the income convergence hypothesis in Latin America and East Asia between 1960 and 2000 through the use of quantile regressions to estimate growth equations. This approach allows us to assess how the effect of policy variables on per worker income growth rate can vary...
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Factor Productivity (TFP). The basic idea is that asset allocation and use, as well as production organization, directly … productivity factor. Technological progress, in turn, works on the entire economies, with direct effects on labor productivity and …
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