This paper compares structural change in four Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico) and seven additional countries which...
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This paper develops a framework to analyze the potential of different variables to increase total factor
productivity (TFP) growth in...
The goal of this paper is to analyse the main characteristics of Argentine manufacturing industry and the development phases (going back more than...
Best practices in defence of competition in Argentina and Brazil: useful aspects for Central America
Developing countries with a relatively long expertise in competition policy, such as Argentina and Brazil, may provide a very valuable point of...
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The present work examines the access to credit by financially constrained
SMEs in Argentina over the last decade, focusing on...
Abstract This paper presents a methodology for adjusting measures of income and poverty for the risk faced by a household. The approach draws on...
Abstract We study the effect of fertility on maternal labour supply in Argentina and Mexico exploiting a source of exogenous variability in...
The following is an extension of research in the Division of Sustainable Development and Human Settlements on sustainable development and policy...
The problem of social security for women in Latin America has not yet been resolved. The recent pension reforms have not contributed to solving it...
(*) This document was prepared by André A. Hofman of the Economic Projections Center of the Statistics Division, and Heriberto Tapia research...
Abstract During the Asian crisis, intermediate exchange rate regimes vanished. It has been argued that those regimes were no longer useful...
Abstract When an economy goes through a transition from a closed to an open market economy, the agents that operate in it face a need to...
Abstract Based on the analysis of the Argentinean currency board and the full dollarization scheme in Ecuador this paper argues that an...
At the turn, of the twentieth century, a large number of Europeans -mainly Italians and Spaniards- left their homelands and headed to the distant...
Abstract The deep economic crisis of Argentina has been causing an active quest for conclusions of topical or general importance. Indeed, an...
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The technical study described in this report was undertaken by
the Economic Commission for Latin America and the...
Abstract The financial crisis of 1994-1995 sounded a wake-up call to Latin America, indicating that regulation and supervision needed to be...
Abstract In the relatively short history of Mercosur, the countries of the region have gone through wide macroeconomic fluctuations....
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The technical study described in this report was undertaken by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (...
(*) Alfredo Calcagno and Sandra Manuelito, are Economic Affairs Officers with the Economic Projections Centre of the United Nations Economic...