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Functional distribution of income and growth regime in Peru, 1942−2013
- Author(s):
- Alarco Tosoni, Germán |
- Castillo García, César
- Serie:
- No.
- 125
- Date Issued
- 2018-12-18
- Physical Description
- p. 211-227; grafs., tabls.
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This paper begins by reviewing the literature on the relation between economic growth and the functional distribution of income since the time of the classical economists, highlighting the work of Kalecki and the post-Keynesians who develop the growthregimes approach. It reconstructs and analyses s...
Deindustrialization, labour and violence in El Salvador
- Author(s):
- Cáceres, Luis René
- Serie:
- No.
- 125
- Date Issued
- 2018-12-18
- Physical Description
- p. 179-209; grafs., tabls.
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This study explores how deindustrialization is influencing the labour market in El Salvador. The variables under analysis are disaggregated by sex in order to permit an analysis of the differences in the ways that women and men react to deindustrialization. The results indicate that deindustrializa...
Colombia’s potential for trade with the European Union and other major global markets
- Author(s):
- Ahcar, Jaime
- Serie:
- No.
- 125
- Date Issued
- 2018-12-18
- Physical Description
- p. 153-178; grafs., tabls.
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This paper identifies potential for trade between Colombia and the European Union following the implementation of a free trade agreement as from 2013. Predictions of potential are based on estimates produced by the Poisson pseudo maximum likelihood estimator applied to a gravity model, controlling ...
Macroeconomic shocks and policy reforms: lessons from the 1999 downturn in Chile
- Author(s):
- Guzmán, Julio
- Serie:
- No.
- 125
- Date Issued
- 2018-12-18
- Physical Description
- p. 134-151; grafs., tabls.
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This article analyses the Chilean government’s response to the 1999 recession that followed on from the Asian financial crisis, focusing on the macroeconomic policy reforms adopted and the institutional factors that influenced this response. The analysis is based on a review of previous research on...
Health-care expenditures, economic growth and infant mortality: evidence from developed and developing countries
- Author(s):
- Dhrifi, Abdelhafidh
- Serie:
- No.
- 125
- Date Issued
- 2018-12-18
- Physical Description
- p. 69-91; grafs., tabls.
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This paper investigates the effects of health-care expenditures on child mortality rates using a simultaneous-equation model for 93 developed and developing countries with data spanning the period 1995–2012. The findings show that health expenditure has a positive effect on reducing child mortality...
Knowledge networks associated with the production of natural resources in Latin America: a comparative analysis
- Author(s):
- Arza, Valeria |
- Marín, Anabel |
- López, Emanuel |
- Stubrin, Lilia
- Serie:
- No.
- 125
- Date Issued
- 2018-12-18
- Physical Description
- p. 93-118; grafs., tabls.
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The opportunities for innovation that arise from natural-resource production are associated with the formation of knowledge networks that facilitate learning both within and outside the sectors in question. This article identifies the types of knowledge networks associated with innovation activitie...
Horizontal inequality and ethnic discrimination in four Latin American countries
- Author(s):
- Puyana, Alicia
- Serie:
- No.
- 125
- Date Issued
- 2018-12-18
- Physical Description
- p. 45-67; tabls.
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This article analyses ethnic discrimination in Mexico relative to Chile, Colombia and Peru from a perspective of horizontal inequality. It presents the numerous ways in which such discrimination is perpetuated and shows how far back in history segregation reaches, having taken root in the period of...
Asymmetric monetary and exchange-rate policies in Latin American countries that use inflation targeting
- Author(s):
- Libman, Emiliano
- Serie:
- No.
- 125
- Date Issued
- 2018-12-18
- Physical Description
- p. 29-44; grafs., tabls.
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In recent decades, Latin American countries have adopted more flexible exchange-rate regimes and set inflation targets. Several authors argue that some countries’ monetary and exchange-rate policies suffer from a procyclical bias, whereby central banks are reluctant to reduce interest rates when in...
Technical progress in GDP production and CO2 emissions in Brazil: 1970−2012
- Author(s):
- Santetti, Márcio |
- Marqueti, Adalmir |
- Morrone, Henrique
- Serie:
- No.
- 125
- Date Issued
- 2018-12-18
- Physical Description
- p. 119-132; grafs., tabls.
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In this study, technical progress is analysed in terms of its influence on the mix of inputs of labour, capital and energy that go into the production of gross domestic product (GDP) and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. The results of this analysis show that the Brazilian economy exhibited a Marx-bi...
The geography of development in Latin America and the Caribbean: towards a new multidimensional taxonomy of the Sustainable Development Goals
- Author(s):
- Tezanos Vázquez, Sergio
- Serie:
- No.
- 125
- Date Issued
- 2018-12-18
- Physical Description
- p. 7-27; grafs., maps., tabls.
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The Latin America and the Caribbean region has an ambiguous place in the new geography of development: while it is a predominantly middle-income region, it is home to no more than 3% of the world’s poor population. Consequently, there is a risk that the international community will (mis)interpret t...