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On the Role of Productivity and Factor Accumulation in Economic Development in Latin America and the Caribbean
Daude, Christian; Fernandez-Arias, Eduardo - 2010
This paper combines development and growth accounting exercises with economic theory to estimate the relative … importance of total factor productivity and the accumulation of factors of production in the economic development performance of … Latin America. The region's development performance is assessed by contrast with various alternative benchmarks, both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328263
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The Productivity Gap in Latin America: Lessons from 50 Years of Development
Fernández Arias, Eduardo; Rodríguez-Apolinar, Sergio - 2016
This paper combines development accounting exercises with economic theory to assess the importance of total factor … successful development benchmarks are explained by subpar productivity gains rather than slower factor accumulation. The … empirical analysis of the interplay between productivity and accumulation in the process of development suggests that one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011535769
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The productivity gap in Latin America : lessons from 50 years of development
Fernández Arias, Eduardo; Rodríguez-Apolinar, Sergio - 2016
This paper combines development accounting exercises with economic theory to assess the importance of total factor … successful development benchmarks are explained by subpar productivity gains rather than slower factor accumulation. The … empirical analysis of the interplay between productivity and accumulation in the process of development suggests that one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011472124
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On the role of productivity and factor accumulation in economic development in Latin America and the Caribbean
Daude, Christian; Fernández Arias, Eduardo - 2010
This paper combines development and growth accounting exercises with economic theory to estimate the relative … importance of total factor productivity and the accumulation of factors of production in the economic development performance of … Latin America. The region s development performance is assessed by contrast with various alternative benchmarks, both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010247133
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An investigation of cross-country incme differences
Ferreira, Pedro Cavalcanti; Issler, Joao victor; … - In: Revista de Analisis Economico – Economic Analysis Review 20 (2005) 2, pp. 3-22
This paper investigates the nature of income inequality across nations. Several exercises, such as variance decompositions, simulations and counter-factual analyses are performed. We find that, although total factor productivity has a leading role in explaining the dispersion of output per...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005808230
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The Evolution of International Output Differences (1960-2000): from Factors to Productivity
Pessoa, Samuel de Abreu; Ferreira, Pedro Cavalcanti - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2004
This article presents a group of exercises of level and growth decomposition of output per worker using cross-country data from 1960 to 2000. Its shown that at least until 1975 factors of production ( capital and education) were the main cause of output dispersion and that productivity variance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051445
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The Evolution of International Output Differences (1960-2000): From Factors to Productivity
Ferreira, Pedro Cavalcanti; Pessôa, Samuel de Abreu; … - IBMEC Business School - Rio de Janeiro - 2005
This article presents a group of exercises of level and growth decomposition of output per worker using cross-country data from 1960 to 2000. It is shown that at least until 1975 factors of production (capital and education) were the main source of output dispersion across economies and that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005551026
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Economic growth in Asia : determinants and prospects
Lee, Jong-Wha; Hong, Kiseok - 2010
research and development can substantially raise GDP growth in the region and partly offset the slowdown in growth caused by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008749709
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Brain drain and economic growth : evidence of productivity growth from brain circulation
Yu, Woosik - In: European journal of government and economics : EJGE 10 (2021) 2, pp. 128-145
This paper analyzes the effect of the so-called 'brain drain' on economic growth through the channel of growth in total factor productivity. We analyze panel data that measure the severity of brain drain, which are from IMD and the U.S. National Science Foundation. Our analysis shows that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013174011
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On the Role of Productivity and Factor Accumulation in Economic Development in Latin America and the Caribbean
Daude, Christian; Fernández-Arias, Eduardo - Centre de développement, Organisation de Coopération … - 2010
This paper combines development and growth accounting exercises with economic theory to estimate the relative … importance of total factor productivity and the accumulation of factors of production in the economic development performance of … Latin America. The region’s development performance is assessed in contrast with various alternative benchmarks, both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008525329