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We analyse the evolution of Manufacturing Value-Added per inhabitant in 20 Latin American and Caribbean countries during the period 1980-2002, and present a comparison with more industrialized countries. We find that very few Latin American countries have experienced an increase in that variable...
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This paper examines the effects of bribery on product and process innovation at the firm level in Latin American … recurring econometric problem in corruption-innovation studies. Overall, we find evidence to support the ‘sand the wheels …’ hypothesis and argue that this negative effect is slightly higher in process innovation compared to product innovation. Using …
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Using newly collected national and sub-national data and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present income differences, and, in...
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Using newly collected national and sub-national data and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present income differences, and, in...
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