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Causality between Domestic Investment and Economic Growth: New Evidence from Argentina

Bakari, Sayef - 2024

policy implications for fostering sustainable economic development in Argentina. …

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The Economic Impact on the Dominican Republic of Baseball Player Exports to the USA

Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich - 2006

This paper pulls together into one practical model two strands of economic theory to assess the impact of baseball player exports on the aggregate economic performance of the Dominican Republic. On one hand, foreign trade theory predicts a strong correlation between a country’s exports and...

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Testing for Stochastic and Beta-convergence in Latin American Countries

Escobari, Diego - 2011

This paper uses time-series data from nineteen Latin American countries and the U.S. to test for income convergence using two existing definitions of convergence and a new testable definition of β-convergence. Only Dominican Republic and Paraguay were found to pair-wise converge according to...

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Investment Constraints and Productivity Cycles in Bolivia

Mendez-Guerra, Carlos - 2019

Bolivia has suffered from a series of investment constraints and negative productivity cycles in the last half-century. In this context, this article first presents suggestive empirical evidence that physical capital accumulation has been constrained by high volatility in investment per worker,...

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Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: What Drives Human-Made Light?

Dickinson, Jeffrey - 2020

-county estimator to identify the effects of time-invariant infrastructure features on night-time light. Roads, rail, ports, airports …

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Does Domestic Investment Contribute to Economic Growth in Uruguay? What did the Empirical Facts Say?

Bakari, Sayef; Tiba, Sofien; Fakraoui, Nissar - 2019

The fundamental role of domestic investment to provide economic prosperity is very well recognized by the economic theory since the Mercantilist theory. Hence, we investigate the impact of domestic investment on economic growth for the case of the Uruguayan economy over the period 1960-2017. For...

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Structural change and sectoral interconnectedness in two resource-abundant economies

Khemraj, Tarron; Pasha, Sukrishnalall - 2023

A historical overview of structural change is presented to motivate the calculation of sectoral factor productivities for Guyana and Suriname using a structural VAR and a novel resource-dominant identification strategy. The paper finds that the extractive sector lowers manufacturing output in...

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On the Development Gap between Latin America and East Asia: Welfare, Efficiency, and Misallocation

Mendez-Guerra, Carlos - 2014

development gap between the two regions. Using a series of numerical decompositions, this article documents three facts about this … gap. First, differences in welfare-adjusted development are larger than those predicted by per-capita GDP. Second …, differences in labor productivity account for most of the differences in both production and welfare-adjusted development. Third …

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Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: What Drives Human-Made Light?

Dickinson, Jeffrey - 2020

-county estimator to identify the effects of time-invariant infrastructure features on night-time light. Roads, rail, ports, airports …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015255780

Incidencia del nivel educativo inicial femenino en el crecimiento económico: evidencia empírica para América Latina y el Caribe

Guerra, Jeimmy; García, Víctor; Rodríguez, Cristian; … - 2020

The objective of this work is to verify if the initial educational level of women is a determinant of economic growth in emerging economies. To carry out this analysis, a panel data model was estimated for a sample of 14 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, during the period 1980-2014....

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