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Unions and Economic Performance in Developing Countries : Case Studies from Latin America
Rios-Avila, Fernando - 2014
This paper analyzes the economic impact of unions on productivity in the manufacturing sector across six Latin American …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010235243
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Unions and Economic Performance in Developing Countries : Case Studies from Latin America
Rios‐Avila, Fernando - 2014
This paper analyzes the economic impact of unions on productivity in the manufacturing sector across six Latin American …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013059249
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Productivity linkages between services and manufacturing: Firm-level evidence from developing countries
Shepherd, Ben - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
associated with manufacturing productivity. Moreover, the link between productivity in services and manufacturing is particularly … strong for manufacturing firms that are more intensive in their use of services inputs. At the mean level of services input … use in the dataset, a 10% improvement in services productivity is associated with a 0.6% improvement in manufacturing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107779
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Regional monetary cooperation in Latin America
Ocampo Gaviria, José Antonio; Titelman Kardonsky, Daniel - 2012
Latin American has the longest history of regional integration efforts in the developing world. This paper analyzes the experience of regional monetary cooperation in Latin America over the past three decades. This experience has been overall successful but also uneven, both in terms of country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009579536
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Regional Monetary Cooperation in Latin America
Ocampo, José Antonio - 2012
Latin American has the longest history of regional integration efforts in the developing world. This paper analyzes the experience of regional monetary cooperation in Latin America over the past three decades. This experience has been overall successful but also uneven, both in terms of country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013102109
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Back to BITs and Bites : Do Trade and Investment Agreements Promote Foreign Direct Investment within Latin America?
Bengoa-Calvo, Marta - 2018
In this paper we investigate the impact of regional trade agreements (RTAs) and bilateral investment treaties (BITs) on intra-regional foreign direct investment (FDI) across Latin American countries from 1995 to 2012. We use an augmented gravity model in which we control for cross-country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012931765
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The effects of trade, aid, and investment on China's image in developing countries
Eichenauer, Vera; Fuchs, Andreas; Brückner, Lutz - 2018 - This version: March 2018
One goal of China's Go Out policy is to create goodwill in countries around the world. At the same time, China's growing economic engagement has provoked much criticism. This paper is the first to study whether these activities change the attitudes of individuals in developing countries towards...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011818445
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Development diagnostics for the Southern cone
Borensztein, Eduardo; Miller, Sebastián; Sánchez, Gabriel - 2014
This is an update and revision of our 2009 study. Using a broad dataset and an original methodology, this paper reports composite development gaps across economic, social and institutional sectors. We define development gap as the distance between the observed and the expected development level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011286684
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Indigenous Peoples, Human Development and the Capability Approach
Gigler, Bjorn-Soren - 2017
Both indigenous peoples and the capability approach (CA) take a holistic view on development and stress the multiple dimension of development as the expansion of people's well-being including social, cultural and spiritual elements. The paper investigates to what extent the capability approach...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962213
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In the Shadow of Violence : A New Perspective on Development
North, Douglass C. - 2015
This paper extends the North, Wallis, and Weingast (2009) framework for understanding the problems of development. Our approach distinguishes two development problems that are normally conflated. Most approaches to development focus on the second problem, namely, the transition of societies from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016711