The 1960s and 70s were decades of solid growth rates for Latin America and the Caribbean
region as a whole. This changed in the 1980s, when the growth rate of output per capita fell …

Total factor productivity (TFP) in Latin America has declined relative to the US since the mid-
1970s. This paper applies a comparable methodology to firm-level data of ten Latin …

Antecedentes: El objetivo de este artículo es analizar el crecimiento económico, la
productividad y sus determinantes en cinco países de América Latina (Argentina, Brasil …

This paper combines development and growth accounting exercises with economic theory
to estimate the relative importance of total factor productivity and the accumulation of factors …

In recent Latin American history, economists have advanced many different recipes to
promote the region's economic growth. Given these differences of professional opinion and …

Este trabajo analiza el problema de crecimiento económico lentode México. Descompone el
aumento del producto por el lado de lademanda e ilustra la incidencia fundamental de la …

Because of several policy distortions, including import‐substitution industrialization,
widespread government intervention, and both domestic and international competitive …

This paper presents a number of facts about growth in Latin America, and shows how critical
correlates of growth have evolved over time. In comparison with other regions, Latin America …

This article examines the effects of sectorial shifts and structural transformation on the recent
productivity path of Latin America. We use a four-sector (agriculture, industry, modern …

The objective of this article is to propose a new methodological approach to determine the
level of competitiveness of subnational territories (regions). To this end, the relationship …