DIGITAL REPOSITORY
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

La economía brasileña, tradicionalmente una de las más cerradas de América Latina, fue finalmente abierta al comercio internacional entre 1988 y 1994. El impacto de una exposición muchísimo mayor al comercio internacional resultó muy diferente de lo previsto, tanto por los defensores como los críticos de la apertura. El presente artículo trata de ...

Although the services sector accounts for nearly 70% of employment and income in developed and developing countries alike, it is well known that the economic performance of the tertiary sector does not depend exclusively on its capacity to add value. This article will evaluate the productive structure of the sector, by considering intra- and ...

This article analyses the stagnation of productivity and the increasing structural heterogeneity of Mexican manufacturing industry in the period 1994-2008. Traditional indicators of dispersion are estimated for 200 activity classes, 50 branches and nine divisions of the manufacturing sector; and these corroborate the widening disparity in productive ...

This article applies the stochastic-frontier model to examine total factor productivity (tfp) and its components in Latin America between 1960 and 2010. The likelihood-ratio test shows that, for a selection of Latin American countries over the 50 years analysed, the macroeconomic variables of technical inefficiency included in the model generally ...