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The Latin American Development Problem
Restuccia, Diego - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2011
By international standards, gross domestic product (GDP) per capita in Latin America is low: around one fourth of that of the United States. Moreover, in the last five decades, Latin America has failed to catch-up in wealth to the level of the United States while other countries at similar or...
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The Latin American Development Problem: An Interpretation
Restuccia, Diego - In: ECONOMIA JOURNAL OF THE LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN … (2013)
  <span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'CMR12';">By international standards, gross domestic product (GDP) per capita in Latin America is low: around one fourth of that of the United States. Moreover, in the last five decades, Latin America has failed to catch-up in wealth to the level of the United States while other countries at similar...</span>
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Policy Distortions and Aggregate Productivity with Heterogeneous Plants
Restuccia, Diego; Rogerson, Richard - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 11 (2008) 4, pp. 707-720
that these effects can result from policies that do not rely on aggregate capital accumulation or aggregate relative price … differences. More generally, the model can be used to generate differences in capital accumulation, relative prices, and measured …
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Policy Distortions and Aggregate Productivity with Heterogeneous Plants
Rogerson, Richard; Restuccia, Diego - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2004
aggregate capital accumulation or aggregate relative price differences. More generally, the model can be used to generate … differences in capital accumulation, relative prices, and measured TFP …
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The Latin American Development Problem: An Interpretation
Restuccia, Diego - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2012
By international standards, gross domestic product (GDP) per capita in Latin America is low: around one fourth of that of the United States. Moreover, in the last five decades, Latin America has failed to catch-up in wealth to the level of the United States while other countries at similar or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010897038
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Policy Distortions and Aggregate Productivity with Heterogeneous Plants
Restuccia, Diego; Rogerson, Richard - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2007
rely on aggregate capital accumulation or aggregate relative price differences. More generally, the model can be used to … generate differences in capital accumulation, relative prices, and measured TFP. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005771717
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Explaining Educational Attainment across Countries and over Time
Restuccia, Diego; Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2013
Consider the following facts. In 1950 the richest ten-percent of countries attained an average of 8 years of schooling … whereas the poorest ten-percent of countries attained 1.3 years, a 6-fold difference. By 2005, the difference in schooling … declined to 2-fold. The fact is that schooling has increased faster in poor than in rich countries. What explains educational …
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Explaining Educational Attainment across Countries and over Time
Restuccia, Diego; Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2014
Consider the following facts. In 1950, the richest countries attained an average of 8 years of schooling whereas the … poorest countries 1.3 years, a large 6-fold difference. By 2005, the difference in schooling declined to 2-fold because … schooling increased faster in poor than in rich countries. What explains educational attainment differences across countries and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010850131
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Explaining Educational Attainment across Countries and over Time
Restuccia, Diego; Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2013
schooling whereas the poorest ten-percent of countries attained 1.3 years, a 6-fold difference. By 2005, the difference in … schooling declined to 2-fold. The fact is that schooling has increased faster in poor than in rich countries. What explains … capital accumulation with two novel but important features: non-homotetic preferences and an operating labor supply margin. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010850133
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Explaining Educational Attainment across Countries and over Time
Restuccia, Diego; Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 17 (2014) 4, pp. 824-841
Consider the following facts. In 1950, the richest countries attained an average of 8 years of schooling whereas the … poorest countries 1.3 years, a large 6-fold difference. By 2005, the difference in schooling declined to 2-fold because … schooling increased faster in poor than in rich countries. What explains educational attainment differences across countries and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945617