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Chile: The road to joy is paved with obstacles
Yajima, Giuliano Toshiro - In: PSL quarterly review 75 (2022) 302, pp. 285-297
The second round of the Presidential elections in Chile marked a swing in the local political scenario. The coalition led by Gabriel Boric secured an unprecedented victory under the premise of delivering long-awaited reforms to a financially volatile, structurally fragile and deeply unequal...
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Income share of the top 10 %, the middle 50 % and the bottom 40 % in Latin America : 1920-2011
Astorga, Pablo - 2023
the labour force in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela (LA6) from 1920 to 2011 using a new dataset …
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Desenvolvimentismo: A construção do conceito
Fonseca, Pedro Cezar Dutra - 2015
This paper aims to formulate a concept of developmentalism from the Latin American historical reality. It's observed that the term qualifies manifold phenomena, in the past and in the present, without efforts on its delimitation. Thus, the concepts polysemy becomes ambiguity about its denotative...
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Revealing the diversity and complexity behind long-term income inequality in Latin America, 1920-2011
Astorga, Pablo - 2024
This paper analyses and documents new long-term income inequality series for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico …
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Does it Make a Difference? Comparing Growth Effects of European and North American FDI in Latin America
Tondl, Gabriele; Prüfer, Patricia - 2007
FDI from the European Union (EU) ranks before FDI from North America (NA) in some of the Latin American countries. We … investigate the impact of EU- versus NA-FDI on the growth rate including about 50 controls. Country specific effects and parameter … best models and most robust parameters. Our results indicate that positive effects of FDI are dependent on the functioning …
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New Trends in Latin America and Their Implications for Foreign Direct Investment
Blanco, Luisa R. - 2010
This analysis focuses on studying whether four significant trends in Latin America may be important determinants of FDI … as significant incentives or deterrents to FDI in the Latin American region, this empirical analysis uses a baseline … model that includes a set of control variables identified in previous empirical analyses as important determinants of FDI in …
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The FDI-Growth Nexus in Latin America : The Role of Source Countries and Local Conditions
Prufer, Patricia - 2008
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has surged in Latin America (LA) since the mid 1990s. European and North American FDI … is of capital importance. We investigate the FDI-growth nexus in LA allowing for different source countries, regional … heterogeneity, interaction terms with FDI, and more than 20 growth determinants. We use Bayesian Model Averaging to address model …
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Determinants of FDI into Latin America : An Empirical Study
Das, Bidisha - 2017
This paper seeks to examine the determinants of FDI into Latin America with an aim to make policy recommendations to … boost FDI into the region. Using data for 17 Latin American countries for the period from 1990 to 2013 and two-way fixed … FDI. The results suggest that infrastructural development, human capital and good governance play crucial roles in …
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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
intra-regional foreign direct investment (FDI) across Latin American countries from 1995 to 2012. We use an augmented … the enforcement of BITs in fostering intra-regional FDI. We observe heterogeneous impacts within the bloc: BITs exert a … positive but small effect, with an estimated increase in FDI stocks between 4-7.25%, for middle income countries such as …
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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...
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