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This paper studies the behavior of investment during demographic transitions. In particular, I focus on the period …, Asia, and Oceania investment rates are higher 15 years before and during the window than in other periods, whereas in Latin … America they are lower. To understand the relation between investment and a demographic window, I build an overlapping …
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Investment in machinery is a key aspect in the analysis of long-term economic growth during the era of the spread of …. This article offers continuous (annual) and consistent series on the magnitude of this investment in all of the Latin …
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One of the main concerns of Latin Americans today is the lack of adequate employment opportunities. This concern is based on the widespread perception that not enough employment is being generated, and that few individuals have access to well- remunerated jobs. This work asks whether there is a...
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One of the main concerns of Latin Americans today is the lack of adequate employment opportunities. This concern is based on the widespread perception that not enough employment is being generated, and that few individuals have access to well-remunerated jobs. This work asks whether there is a...
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This paper aims to identify the main contributing factors to the observed gender pay inequality in the last 10 years in Latin America and the Caribbean. It also aims to identify the main restrictions to design evidence-based policy. The average woman in the region works 25 h more per month than...
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productivity effects barely offset higher union compensation, and that unions are negatively related to investment in capital and R …
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We estimate public investment gaps in a sample of developing countries using a public investment demand function. We … mortality and lower secondary school completion) to predict public investment needs in 2030 among IDB borrowing countries. Our … estimates suggest that in 2014 the total public investment gap of IDB borrowers was close to $170 billion (3.1 percent of the …
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This analysis focuses on studying whether four significant trends in Latin America may be important determinants of FDI. The trends explored are: increased financial liberalization, improvements in the quality of institutions, shifts towards leftist governments, and increased dependence on...
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preferential access to available output, and extending control over the world's extractive industries. But Chinese investment need … countries in Latin America, Africa, and elsewhere that intend to use Chinese investment to develop their extractive sectors … difference; and third, that foreign investment is a catalyst for change …
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