Este artículo tiene como propósito principal examinar el estado, la evolución y las causas de la competitividad exportadora de la industria de Antioquia durante el período 1977-2000, región que además del liderazgo industrial, se distinguió por la defensa del régimen proteccionista....

In his 1966 Inaugural Lecture at Cambridge, entitled On the Causes of the Slow Rate of Economic Growth in the UK, the Hungarian-born British economist, Nicholas Kaldor presented a series of "laws" to account for the growth rate differences between Britain on the one hand, and the more successful...

In recent years, India has enjoyed one of the highest growth rates worldwide, weathering the global financial crisis better than many other countries. Prudent macroeconomic policies will be critical to prolonging the current expansion, given the risks associated with high inflation and volatile...

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In this introduction, Andrew Sharpe provides the context for the Symposium on Future Productivity Growth in Canada, a panel organized by the CSLS at the Canadian Economics Association Meetings, June 2003 at Carleton University. He provides a context for the presentations by highlighting certain...

Major European countries, unlike the United States, did not experience an acceleration in labour productivity growth in the second half of the 1990s. In this article, Gilbert Cette from the Bank of France and the University of Aix-Marseilles II, Jacques Mairesse of INSEE-CREST, and Yusef Kocoglu...

This paper analyzes the theoretical and quantitative implications of optimal capital taxation in the neoclassical growth model with aggregate shocks and incomplete markets. The model features a representative-agent economy with proportional taxes on labor and capital. I first consider the case...

This article presents some reflections on the Colombian economic situation in 2003 and next year's perspectives. We consider that the economy has been improving since the second quarter of 2002, but at a slow rhythm. In spite of the improvement in some global and sectorial economic indicators,...

Over viewing the most recently evolutions throughout global economy, we can easily conceive that the collateral effects of economical globalization and market integration, represents the main issues debated in specialized professional or political circles. The unanimous impression underlines the...

This publication presents a system of macroeconomic indicators, which allows carrying out monitoring of financial stability in the emerging markets. The authors developed methodology for quarterly monitoring, which helps revealing negative tendencies in advance, which threaten the financial...