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The informality phenomenon and its contribution to the growth of the city of Guayaquil

Torresano, José Véliz; Christiansen, Suleen Díaz - In: Journal of economics, finance & administrative science 19 (2014) 37, pp. 90-97

Under-employment or informality is a compelling truth in developing countries, and Ecuador is no exception, least of … all the city Guayaquil. This descriptive study attempts to investigate informality, its reality and characteristics, and … influence the non-formalization of its activities. The results support that informality may be seen as an enterprise mechanism …

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Has the finance-growth link been broken? : panel data evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean

Williams, Kevin - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 19 (2018) 3, pp. 404-423

This paper examines the two-way relationship between economic growth and financial development for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). The sample consists of 32 emerging and developing countries from LAC spanning the period 1970-2014. Controlling for country and time fixed effects, the first...

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The Argentina Paradox : microexplanations and macropuzzles

Taylor, Alan M. - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 27 (2018), pp. 1-17

The economic history of Argentina presents one of the most dramatic examples of divergence in the modern era. What happened and why? This paper reviews the wide range of competing explanations in the literature and argues that, setting aside deeper social and political determinants, the various...

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Loss-of-learning and the post-Covid recovery in low-income countries

Buffie, Edward F.; Adam, Christopher S.; Zanna, Luis-Felipe - In: Journal of macroeconomics 75 (2023), pp. 1-20

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More unequal or less? : a review of global, regional and national income inequality

Amarante, Verónica; Colacce, Maira - In: CEPAL review (2018) 124, pp. 7-31

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Resilience capacity of South countries with respect to the global economic crisis : an empirical comparative analysis of Sub-Saharan African and Latin American countries

Lessoua, Albert; Guadalupe, Jorge; Diaw, Diadié; … - In: International journal of applied economics and … 22 (2014) 4, pp. 133-158

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Growth and volatility of tax revenues in Latin America

Fricke, Hans; Süssmuth, Bernd - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 54 (2014), pp. 114-138

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Regional convergence and trade liberalization under weak state capacity : evidence from Mexico

Spruk, Rok - In: European journal of comparative economics 18 (2021) 2, pp. 173-216

Long-term regional convergence hypothesis is examined for 32 Mexican states in a regional growth model with poverty traps using a new dataset on regional income inequality for the period 1940-2011. Although zero-growth poverty trap hypothesis is rejected for 28 out of 32 states, the evidence...

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The rise and fall of Argentina

Spruk, Rok - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 28 (2019), pp. 1-40

I examine the contribution of institutional breakdowns to long-run development, drawing on Argentina’s unique departure from a rich country on the eve of World War I to an underdeveloped one today. The empirical strategy is based on building a counterfactual scenario to examine the path of...

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Capital flows, savings, and growth in the 1990s

Gruben, William C. - In: The quarterly review of economics and finance : journal … 38 (1998) 3, pp. 287-301

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