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Drivers of technological capabilities in developing countries: An econometric analysis of Argentina, Brazil and Chile
Molina-Domene, María A.; Pietrobelli, Carlo - In: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 23 (2012) 4, pp. 504-515
study covers firms from the manufacturing sector. We first construct a Capability Score to provide a preliminary measure of …
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Competitiveness in the Latin American manufacturing sector: trends and determinants
Garcia-Herrero, Alicia; Dos Santos, Enestor; Urbiola, Pablo - BBVA Research, Grupo BBVA - 2014
the manufacturing sectors of most countries in the region went down from 2007 to 2012, after relatively favourable … progress in labour productivity. The main exception to these regional trends is Mexico, where gains in the manufacturing … reversal of these trends has been making it difficult for the Mexican manufacturing sector to gain competitiveness. Case …
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Latin American economic development
Cárdenas, Mauricio; Helfand, Steven M. - Palgrave Macmillan
This article examines the strategies, successes and failures of economic development in Latin America since 1870. We divide the analysis into four key development phases: primary export-led growth (1870–1929), import substitution industrialisation (1945–82), debt crisis (1980s) and...
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Industry and Economic Development in Latin America
Guisan, Maria-Carmen; Aguayo, E. - 2008
We analyse the evolution of Manufacturing Value-Added per inhabitant in 20 Latin American and Caribbean countries … Manufacturing in Latin American countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014215550
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Civil Society Organizations in Latin America as a Democratic Anchor for Long-Term Social Development
Gómez, Santiago - 2013
This paper provides an empirical investigation of the “social capital” theories that link civil society and democracy. Using data from the Civil Society Index for 44 countries, we find that not only this relationship exists, but that civil society is also positively correlated with human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014179090
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Firms and Labor in Times of Violence: Evidence from the Mexican Drug War
Utar, Hale - 2022
This paper examines how firms in an emerging economy are affected by violence due to drug trafficking. Employing rich longitudinal plant-level data covering all of Mexico from 2005–2010, and using an instrumental variable strategy that exploits plausibly exogenous spatiotemporal variation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351699
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Firms and labor in times of violence : evidence from the Mexican drug war
Utar, Hâle - 2022
This paper examines how firms in an emerging economy are affected by violence due to drug trafficking. Employing rich longitudinal plant-level data covering all of Mexico from 2005–2010, and using an instrumental variable strategy that exploits plausibly exogenous spatiotemporal variation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013170284
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SME policy and firms' productivity in Latin America
Ibarrarán, Pablo; Maffioli, Alessandro; Stucchi, Rodolfo - 2009
Very little is known about the effectiveness of SME policies, and a careful look at the structure, mechanisms and incentives provided by these policies suggest caution in their implementation and, most importantly, the need to carefully and closely monitor their results. This paper relies on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271309
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Agglomeration externalities and urbanization in Ecuador
Rosero, Grace Carolina Guevara; Riou, Stephane; … - 2015
the manufacturing from the service industry. The magnitude of the externalities from diversity is positive and significant … in manufacturing but much higher in the service industry. Interestingly, our regressions exhibit the non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400509
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SME Policy and Firms’ Productivity in Latin America
Ibarrarán, Pablo; Maffioli, Alessandro; Stucchi, Rodolfo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Very little is known about the effectiveness of SME policies, and a careful look at the structure, mechanisms and incentives provided by these policies suggest caution in their implementation and, most importantly, the need to carefully and closely monitor their results. This paper relies on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008578127