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Schooling, cognitive skills, and the Latin American growth puzzle
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009
Economic development in Latin America has trailed most other world regions over the past four decades despite its relatively high initial development and school attainment levels. This puzzle can be resolved by considering the actual learning as expressed in tests of cognitive skills, on which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274178
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Growth and Human Development: Comparative Latin American Experience
Ranis, Gustav; Stewart, Frances - 2001
This paper seeks to examine the interdependence between economic growth (EG) and human development (HD). It is concerned with changes in per capita income and its two-way relationship with the basic societal objective of human development. Regressions across various Latin American countries are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369250
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Foreign direct investment and structural reforms: evidence from Eastern Europe and Latin America
Campos, Nauro F.; Kinoshita, Yuko - 2008
This paper investigates the role of structural reforms - privatization, financial reform and trade liberalization as determinants of FDI inflows based on newly constructed dataset on structural reforms for 19 Latin American and 25 Eastern European countries between 1989 and 2004. Our main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268588
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Growth and Adjustment in East Asia and Latin America
De Gregorio, José; Lee, Jong-wha - 2004
This paper compares the experience of growth performance and macroeconomic adjustment between East Asia and Latin America from 1970 to 2000. We find that the difference in growth performance between the two regions can be largely attributed to the differences in fundamental growth factors such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011282421
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Lateinamerika nach der verlorenen Dekade: Eine Zwischenbilanz der Reformen
Nunnenkamp, Peter - 1998
In Lateinamerika hat sich auf breiter Front eine wirtschaftspolitische Umkehr vollzogen. Immer mehr Länder haben … giobale Arbeitsteilung eingebunden. Lateinamerika profitierte von einem Boom ausländischer Direktinvestitionen. Weiten Teilen …. Kurzfristige Risiken ergeben sich für Lateinamerika daraus, daß ausländische Investoren durch die asiatische Finanzkrise generell …
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El efecto de China en el comercio internacional de América Latina
Montenegro, Claudio E.; Pereira, Mariana; Soloaga, Isidro - In: Estudios de Economía 38 (2011) 2, pp. 341-368
Using a gravity model, this article presents an analysis of aggregate trade flows aimed at identifying China's impact on Latin America's trade. The results obtained indicate that: i) China's growth in the last years implied a growing supply of exports to this market from most countries in the...
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Education, Governance and Trade-Related Technology Diffusion in Latin America
Schiff, Maurice; Wang, Yanling - 2004
This paper examines the impact on TFP of North-South trade-related technology diffusion in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). North-South R&D flows are constructed based on industry-specific R&D in the North, North-South trade patterns, and input-output relations in the South. The main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261795
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Fertility changes in Latin America in the context of economic uncertainty
Adsera, Alicia; Menendez, Alicia - 2009
We explore the relation between fertility and the business cycle in Latin American countries taking advantage of the existing cross-country and within-country differences in both fertility and macroeconomic conditions. First, we use a panel of 18 nations for over 45 years to study how different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269027
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North-South trade-related technology diffusion: Virtuous growth cycles in Latin America
Schiff, Maurice; Wang, Yanling - 2010
This paper examines the impact on TFP in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and in other developing countries (DEV) of trade-related foreign R&D (NRD), education and governance. The measures of NRD are constructed based on industry-specific R&D in the North, North-South trade patterns, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269768
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The international crisis and Latin America: Growth effects and development strategies
Corbo, Vittorio; Schmidt-Hebbel, Klaus - 2011
Latin America has been strongly affected by the international crisis and recession since late 2008. In comparison to historical experience, how has Latin America coped with the global crisis, which has been the role of different transmission mechanisms, and how have the region's structural and...
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