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Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

This article analyses the relationship between energy consumptionin industry and industrial productivity and the implications of this forsustainable development. To this end, it presents a matrix characterizingeconomies as: (i); converging or diverging in terms of energy consumptionper unit of value added, and (ii); catching up with or falling further ...

En el presente artículo se analiza la relación entre el consumo energético de la industria, la productividad industrial y sus implicancias para un desarrollo sostenible. Con este objetivo, se presenta una matriz que caracteriza a aquellas economías que: i) convergen o divergen en términos de consumo energético por unidad de valor agregado, y ii) ...

This article attempts to explain how the innovation process is determined by factors external to the firm, whose productivity is calculated and analysed in terms of systemic innovation factors. To that end, it describes the internal innovation capabilities of firms, which explain variations in their productivity across sectors. The productivity of ...

En este artículo se intenta explicar cómo el proceso de innovación está determinado por factores externos a la empresa, cuya productividad se calcula y analiza en función de los factores sistémicos de innovación. Con ese fin, se presentan las competencias internas de las empresas para innovar, que explican la variación de su productividad por sector. ...

Since the 1970s, Brazilian agriculture has undergone far-reaching changes and has played a major role in agricultural production worldwide. This article assesses the structural heterogeneity prevailing in Brazilian and United States agriculture by studying total factor productivity (TFP), which has increased in both economies, mainly through technologies ...

This article analyses the pattern of technical change in the Brazilian economy between 1952 and 2008. A Marx-biased pattern of labour-saving and capital-using change predominated in the period under study. Three phases in the dynamism of technical change can be distinguished, however. The first, from 1952 to 1973, was highly dynamic. In the second, ...

This article aims to analyse the determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) into Brazil between 2001 and 2013. It uses a vector error correction (VEC) model to analyse both the long-term function and the impulse-response function. The results show that levels of economic activity, wages and productivity are positively related to FDI inflows, ...

En este artículo se utiliza la metodología del espacio de productos para analizar la relación entre la complejidad económica y el desarrollo económico en el Brasil y la República de Corea. Se toman los datos de importación como indicador de la desventaja comparativa revelada para destacar la relevancia del mercado local, se presenta el espacio 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 study sets out to obtain values for the income elasticities and inequality of poverty in urban and rural areas of the Brazilian states. A panel data methodology capable of capturing spatial effects via a spatial lag model is used to identify whether there are spatial spillovers of poverty in the census situations studied. Changes in growth and ...