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The paper first summarizes the theoretical and empirical literature on the growth and inequality impact of the liberalization of trade, FDI, portfolio flows, and migration. It then compares the inequality and growth performance of Latin America over 2000-2008 with that recorded during the same...
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We explore the ability of core inflation to predict headline CPI annual inflation for a sample of 8 developing economies in Latin America during the period January 1995-May 2017. Our in-sample and out-of-sample results are roughly consistent in providing evidence of predictability in the great...
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-2000 in the fields of trade, foreign direct investment (FDI) and capital flows, and the rise in migration. Finally, it …
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The paper analyzes Jamaica's experience of low growth despite consistently high investment. Cross-country analysis … excessively on a few maturing sectors with limited scope for productivity growth. Furthermore, public investment has been crowded …
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In this study we present a comparison of investment and production per head in 21 areas of the World, and we find that … disappointing result has been the stagnation in many countries, of investment and production per capita during this decade. We … countries. We analyze the evolution of investment and savings in 132 countries of America, Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe and …
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advantage of the high returns to investment seemingly offered by that small open economy under such favorable conditions, on the … process of small open economies: the responses of investment to positive TFP shocks are muted and shortlived, while those to …
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direct investment in nine emerging markets in two regions, Latin America and Asia …
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Economic experts indicate that the investment prospects in Latin America and the Caribbean are not positive. They … also have legal significance, as they offer guidelines for predicting in which economic sub-sectors investment claims may …. Its main objective is, however, the study of current legislative policies on investment in Latin American countries, and …
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In recent years, the negotiation and conclusion of international investment agreements (IIAs) in Latin America has gone … hand-in-hand with a rethinking of investment standards and the elaboration of new IIA models. This is evident, among others …, in Brazil’s cooperation and facilitation investment agreements (CFIAs), the continuing negotiations on the creation of a …
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In this paper we analyse the impact of policy uncertainty on foreign direct investment strategies. The paper follows …
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