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The economic slowdown experienced in Colombia since 1980 is explained by the structural stagnation of the national economy and the escalation of violence associated with the expansion of drug trafficking. The available data do not reject this hypothesis. The article sustains that...
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This work analyzes the process of convergence of the per capita incomes of Mexico and the USA from 1954 to 2008. It was …-1982. It is then analyzed the process of convergence to see if the variables are co-integrated and to verify the stability of …, from 1954 to 1982, and the second, from 1992 to 2008. During the period 1954-1982, a process of absolute convergence …
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Este documento analiza los grandes cambios en las principales áreas de política económica estructural en América Latina entre 1985 y 2009 y presenta un conjunto de índices que intentan medir qué tan favorables son para el libre funcionamiento de los mercados las políticas comercial,...
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Based on satellite photos of night light from NASA and the U.S. Department of Defense, and using the methodology proposed by Henderson, Storeygard and Weil (2012), this paper measures the economic growth of the main 15 beach tourist areas in Mexico for the period from 1993 to 2017. This...
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This paper theoretically interprets how international real capitalist competition pressures trade balances of the peripheral countries to depend on absolute cost advantages based on the super-exploitation of labor power and nature; dependence which creates cyclical dynamics within those...
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El desempeño macroeconómico de Bolivia durante el período de 1994 a 1998 es analizado y comparado con el desempeño de períodos anteriores y el desempeño de otros países en desarrollo (agrupados de acuerdo al ingreso, región y condición de su deuda). Esto permite evaluar lo alcanzado en...
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The aim of this paper is to explore whether postmaterialism explains differences in Total entrepreneurial-activity rates across Spanish Autonomous Communities. A distinction is made between potential entrepreneurs, nascent entrepreneurship, new business formation and Established business, as...
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This paper analyzes Bolivia's long-term economic growth between 1950 and 2015, identifying its proximate causes through a growth accounting exercise, which considers the direct and indirect effects of Total Factor Productivity (TFP) on GDP per worker. The novelty is that the measurement of TFP...
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