DIGITAL REPOSITORY
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...