The paper discusses different attempts to measure economic growth in Europe before the Industrial Revolution. It is argued that the figures published by Angus Maddison probably overestimate growth between 1000 and 1820. Next, a method for simulating long-term patterns of growth is presented, and...

El subempleo o informalidad se muestra como una verdad acuciante en las naciones en desarrollo, y el Ecuador no es una excepción, menos aún la ciudad de Guayaquil. Este estudio descriptivo pretende indagar sobre la informalidad, su realidad y sus características, y especialmente su aporte al...

In recent times, Sraffian Supermultiplier Model (SSM) (Freitas & Serrano, 2015; Serrano, 1995; Serrano et al., 2019) has become prominent in both theoretical and empirical discussions within the demand-led-growth framework. The SSM has three distinctive features: the rate of growth of output is...

Este documento presenta un análisis pormenorizado de la estructura del gasto público en España y de su evolución reciente, en comparación con el resto de los países europeos. España presenta un peso del sector Administraciones Públicas (AAPP) asimilable al de los países de su entorno,...

This paper looks at the hypothesis of conditional convergence of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita for a set of eighteen Latin American countries establishing a positive link with the growth rate of those economies. To that purpose, Ø-convergence, σ-convergence and Ú-convergence...

The Mexican economy has shown four decades of slow growth; still it would be reasonable to expect changes in its productive structure along such a long period of time considered, as a result either of the embodied technical change or as a result of the economic policies, that have sought the...