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La violencia en Latinoamérica y sus efectos sobre la inversión y la educación/Violence in Latin America and its Effects in Investment an Education
OSPINA PLAZA, NATALIA; GIMÉNEZ ESTEBAN, GREGORIO - In: Estudios de Economía Aplicada 27 (2009) Diciembre, pp. 781-781
Latin American countries during the period 1995 to 2002, which analyses the relationship between violence and investment in … physical and human capital. This analysis confirms that violence affects negatively to investment in physical capital, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008480901
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External Shocks, Structural Change, and Economic Growth in Mexico 1979–2006
Blecker, Robert A. - 2008
NAFTA in 1994. Estimates of an investment function and other tests show that growth drives investment but not conversely, in … the short run. Inflows of foreign direct investment have positive effects on investment, but the coefficients are small …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005162578
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Trade, investment, and capital flows:Mexico's macroeconomic adjustment to the Great Recession
Ibarra, Carlos A. - Sobre México. Temas en economía - 2014
After a two-year deceleration, in 2009 the Mexican economy suffered a contraction only matched, in its modern history, by the one recorded in 1995, in the wake of the peso crisis of December 1994. As in the latter crisis, the economy immediately bounced back, posting positive growth in 2010....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010907692
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"Unions and Economic Performance in Developing Countries: Case Studies from Latin America"
Rios-Avila, Fernando - Levy Economics Institute - 2014
productivity effects barely offset higher union compensation, and that unions are negatively related to investment in capital and R …
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The China Boom in Latin America: An End to Austerity?
Kaplan, Stephen B. - Institute for International Economic Policy (IIEP), … - 2014
How does a shifting economic power balance between the United States and China affect the strategic choices of Latin American governments? During the last several decades, Latin America has often relied on a Western development model that aimed to attract global market capital. After excessive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011148633
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The China Boom in Latin America: An End to Austerity?
Kaplan, Stephen B. - Institute for International Economic Policy (IIEP), … - 2014
How does a shifting economic power balance between the United States and China affect the strategic choices of Latin American governments? During the last several decades, Latin America has often relied on a Western development model that aimed to attract global market capital. After excessive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011148639
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The China Boom in Latin America: An End to Austerity?
Kaplan, Stephen B. - Institute for International Economic Policy (IIEP), … - 2014
How does a shifting economic power balance between the United States and China affect the strategic choices of Latin American governments? During the last several decades, Latin America has often relied on a Western development model that aimed to attract global market capital. After excessive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011148641
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Economic Size and Debt Sustainability against Piketty's Capital Inequality
cho, hyejin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This article presents a methodology designed to facilitate alternative variables measuring economic growth. A capital-labor split of Cobb-Douglas function is adapted for use in the context of economic growth. A capital/income ratio and two fundamental law of capitalism originated by Thomas...
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Taxes and Growth in a Financially Underdevelopped Country: Evidence from the Chilean Investment Boom
Hsieh, Chang-Tai; Parker, Jonathan A. - In: ECONOMIA JOURNAL OF THE LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN … (2007)
prospects and poorly developed financial markets because it primarily reduces the investment of financially constrained firms …, investment that has marginal product greater than the after-tax market real interest rate. Contrarily, taxes on distributed … profits or capital gains primarily reduce the investment of financially unconstrained firms. Chile experienced a banking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021345
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FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT BY SPAIN IN LATIN AMERICA: BRAZIL, ARGENTINA AND MEXICO
MARTINEZ, Elena; JAREÑO, Francisco - In: Applied Econometrics and International Development 14 (2014) 2
This paper analyzes the evolution of Spanish foreign direct investment (FDI) in Latin America in recent years (from the … with the highest indices of Spanish investment (Brazil, Argentina and Mexico) is performed. The study finds that of the …
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