This paper shows how high bargaining power for firms and search costs in the labor market can impede a switch towards new, more competitive economic activities. This is because search costs drive the quality of the horizontal matching between worker types and the old and new sectors of the...

Infrastructure and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa analyzes the extent to which, how, and how fast the infrastructure needs of the poor have been met in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Author Antonio Estache: Antonio Estache is Professor of Economics at Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, and a...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Background -- Investment and Reform Needs -- Competition Rules and Regulatory Design -- Macroeconomic and Microeconomic Linkages between Infrastructure Reforms and Poverty -- Macroeconomic Linkages -- Microeconomic Linkages --...

We consider the relationship between tourism and economic growth for Latin American countries since 1985 until 1998. The analysis proposed is based on a panel data approach and the Arellano-Bond estimator for dynamic panels. We obtain estimates of the relationship between economic growth and...

We consider the relationship between tourism and economic growth for Latin American countries since 1985 until 1998. The analysis proposed is based on a panel data approach and the Arellano-Bond estimator for dynamic panels. We obtain estimates of the relationship between economic growth and...

Durante los últimos 20 años se ha desarrollado una extensa literatura centrada en comparar la actuación de empresas privadas y públicas desde un punto de vista microeconómico. Con este trabajo se pretende extender el debate sobre la relevancia de los diferentes tipos de propiedad de los...

We consider the relationship between tourism and economic growth for Latin American countries since 1985 until 1998. The analysis proposed is based on a panel data approach and the Arellano-Bond estimator for dynamic panels. We obtain estimates of the relationship between economic growth and...