Has aggregate income growth been effective in reducing poverty and inequality in Latin America? / Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet -- Social protection for the unemployed : programs in Latin America / Gustavo Márquez -- Heterogeneity and optimal unemployment insurance / Hugo A. Hopenhayn...

This volume uses the study of firm dynamics to investigate the factors preventing faster productivity growth in Latin America and the Caribbean. Each chapter is dedicated to an examination of a different factor affecting firm productivity - innovation, ICT usage, on-the-job-training, firm age,...

1. The political economy of regional development banks -- 2. Towards a new political economy view of the Inter-American Development Bank -- 3. The IDB's role in South American political economy in the 1990s -- 4. Argentina in the political economy of the Americas -- 5. The IDB's role in the...