1. Latin America and the world economy / Dale W. Jorgenson and Khuong Minh Vu -- 2. Technical change and economic growth : some lessons from secular patterns and some conjectures on the current impact of ICT / Carolina Castaldi and Giovanni Dosi -- 3. ICT and productivity growth in Europe : an...

Economic growth in Latin America and the rise of material welfare has lagged behind that of more dynamic areas of the world economy. In a region prone to policy experiments, the policies of the Washington Consensus applied since the 1990s failed to bring sustained growth to most of Latin...

The aim of this work is to investigate the role played by the so-called `globalization' processes of the last couples of decades on the international patterns of technological learning and on the distribution of incomes and growth. First, we re-assess the evidence on the general patterns of the...