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Quality management promotion to improve competitiveness
(1998-08)
In this article, the author aims to demonstrate the importance of quality issues in national strategies for increasing productivity and competitiveness in Latin America. Quality is an important factor in today's increasingly globalized and liberalized markets, and it is considered that the application of quality management techniques will make a ...
Natural resources: the current debate
(1993-12)
Hacia una política de innovación eficiente en América Latina
(2005-12)
La innovación se ha convertido en un tema central en la agenda
de crecimiento de América Latina. Este artículo examina cuatro interrogantes: ¿Cómo podemos saber si tras el deficiente desempeño regional de la productividad total de los factores hay realmente un "problema de innovación"? ¿Qué queremos decir cuando hablamos de innovación y cuáles son ...
The spatial concentration of high-skilled workers and city productivity: the case of Latin America
(2021-12)
The aim of this study is to cast light on the relationship between the spatial concentration of high-skilled workers and the productivity of cities in Latin America. The relationship is not clear at first sight. On the one hand, the segregation of high-skilled workers should create agglomeration economies and give rise to positive spillovers amongst ...
Firm-level innovation, government policies and the middle-income trap: insights from five Latin American economies
(2022-08)
Latin American economies need higher productivity to escape from the middle-income trap. This article analyses the drivers of innovation at the firm level, which is a critical driver of productivity growth. The article estimates a two-stepmodel where firm characteristics affect firm engagement with innovation inputs, and such engagement then generates ...
Decentralization and equity
(1992-04)
Regímenes sectoriales, productividad y competitividad internacional
(2001-12)
El presente artículo busca examinar diversos aspectos mesoeconómicos
y microeconómicos relacionados con la productividad
y la competitividad internacional en el contexto del nuevo
modelo económico latinoamericano. Estos aspectos contribuyen
de manera importante a explicar por qué dichas variables
no han evolucionado satisfactoriamente en los ...