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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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Finding Eldorado : slavery and long-run development in Colombia

Acemoglu, Daron; García Jimeno, Camilo; Robinson, James A. - 2012

Slavery has been a major institution of labor coercion throughout history. Colonial societies used slavery intensively across the Americas, and slavery remained prevalent in most countries after independence from the European powers. We investigate the impact of slavery on long-run development...

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Development diagnostics for the Southern cone

Borensztein, Eduardo; Miller, Sebastián; Sánchez, Gabriel - 2014

This is an update and revision of our 2009 study. Using a broad dataset and an original methodology, this paper reports composite development gaps across economic, social and institutional sectors. We define development gap as the distance between the observed and the expected development level...

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The Colonial Origins of Guyana's Underdevelopment

Khemraj, Tarron - 2015

Dutch settlements on the coastal plain locked Guyana into polder agriculture and inadvertently a small widely dispersed population. The former requires high cost for drainage, irrigation and agricultural production. The latter implies the high costs – including the cost of infrastructure –...

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Teenage motherhood, education, and labor market outcomes of the mother : evidence from Brazilian data

Narita, Renata Del Tedesco; Diaz, Maria Dolores Montoya - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 17 (2016) 2, pp. 238-252

This paper studies the effects of teenage motherhood on later educational and labor market achievement of the mothers. We construct a pseudo panel from the Brazilian Household Surveys (the 1992-2004 PNADs) and from the Health Ministry data (DATASUS 1981-1992) by state of birth and cohort. We...

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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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014465016

Will Latin America Now Put a Stop to "Stop-and-Go"?

Ranis, G. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1996

This paper raises the question whether the current wave of macro-economic and structural reforms in Latin America should be viewed as a decisive change in the Continent's long-term development strategy or as part of but another stop-go cycle for which the Continent has been known in the past.

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Foreign direct investment and value added in Indonesia

Sjöholm, Fredrik - 2016

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has increased in importance over the last decades, globally as well as in Indonesia. We … examine how such inflows of FDI affects value added in Indonesia. The effect is positive: foreign firms generate relatively … high levels of value added and they also seem to have a positive impact on value added in local firms. Moreover, FDI …

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Information Technology in The Learning Economy -Challenges for Developing Countries

Ernst, Dieter; Lundvall, Bengt-Åke - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 1997

This paper inquires how the concept of the "learning economy" can be applied to the requirements of developing countries. The main purpose is to develop an analytical framework to better understand how learning and capability formation can foster industrial upgrading. Special emphasis is given...

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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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