This is the presentation of the study "Competitiveness and Growth in Latin America: Country Case: El Salvador". The study finds that phenomena associated with migration are key in understanding slow growth in El Salvador. Migration has substantially reduced the growth of labor force....

This is the latest version available of this document. This paper follows the GDM approach, with the aim of identifying the binding constraints to Ecuadorian growth, defined as those constraints whose removal would have the largest payoff in terms of growth. As per the strategy, different...

This is the last version available of "Competitiveness and Growth in Argentina: Appropriability, Misallocation or Disengagement?". Argentina is an unfortunate example of vanished growth, as its per capita GDP in 2006 was barely 22% bigger than in 1974. During these past three decades it has...

Esta es la última versión disponible de "Estrategia para avanzar en las negociaciones del TLC entre Ecuador y EUA". El documento revisa el estado de las negociaciones del tratado de libre comercio (TLC) y los temas neurálgicos para los dos países, Ecuador y Estados Unidos, y propone una...

Esta es la última versión disponible. Este estudio es parte de la cooperación técnica " Fluctuaciones en el Precio del Petróleo y Estabilidad Macroeconómica en Centroamérica. El objetivo del presente estudio es evaluar la viabilidad de una estrategia que contenga medidas de ahorro de...

This is the latest version available of this document. The study states that perhaps the core problem and challenge for Central American economic recovery is the regions' high cost of energy. The inordinately high energy cost structure for the nations of Central America is caused in part by the...

This presentation corresponds to the Working Paper "Revisiting Economic Growth in Colombia: A Microeconomic Perspective" The objective of the study is to revisit economic growth in Colombia using the methodology proposed by HRV (2004) as a framework to think about the most binding constraints...