This paper uses the construction of India's Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) highway to explore the impact of an exogenous increase in market access and competition across the firm life cycle and generates four...
América Latina y el Caribe (ALC) continúa gestionando competentemente los desafíos impuestos por la débil demanda global, el mayor nivel de endeudamiento, la incertidumbre en torno a la guerra en Ucrania...
Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) continues to competently manage challenges of weak global demand, higher debt, uncertainty surrounding the war in Ukraine, and the ongoing although diminishing inflationary...
The Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region has proved to be relatively resilient in the face of increased debt stress, stubborn inflation, and uncertainty arising from the Russian invasion of Ukraine...
As the Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis recedes, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is back to work and looking forward. Is the region back to normal? As chapter 1 discusses, reported deaths related to...
The Latin America and the Caribbean region is consolidating its recovery from the COVID-19 crisis, but the road ahead poses challenges: The damage inflicted by the pandemic on education and poverty require...
The Latin America and the Caribbean region is consolidating its recovery from the COVID-19 crisis, but the road ahead poses challenges: The damage inflicted by the pandemic on education and poverty require...
The Latin America and the Caribbean region is consolidating its recovery from the COVID‐19 crisis, but the road ahead poses challenges: The damage inflicted by the pandemic on education and poverty require...
The Latin America and the Caribbean region is consolidating its recovery from the COVID‐19 crisis, but the road ahead poses challenges: The damage inflicted by the pandemic on education and poverty require...
The Latin America and the Caribbean region is consolidating its recovery from the COVID-19 crisis, but the road ahead poses challenges: The damage inflicted by the pandemic on education and poverty require...
The Latin America and the Caribbean region is consolidating its recovery from the COVID-19 crisis, but the road ahead poses challenges: The damage inflicted by the pandemic on education and poverty require...
The Latin America and the Caribbean region (LAC) is progressing toward consolidating its recovery from the COVID-19 crisis. Vaccination is well-advanced in most of the region, increasing resilience against...
Recent literature suggests that the positive impact of population density on wages, the canonical measure of agglomeration effects, is multiples higher in developing countries than in advanced economies...
Productivity accounts for half of the differences in gross domestic product per capita across countries. Identifying policies that stimulate productivity is thus critical to alleviating poverty and fulfilling...
Productivity accounts for half of the differences in gross domestic product per capita across countries. Identifying policies that stimulate productivity is thus critical to alleviating poverty and fulfilling...
This paper models an entrepreneur’s choice between investing in a safe activity or experimenting with a new risky one, and how much to invest in the “entrepreneurial capital” that would permit more effective...
This paper employs a matched firm production/innovation panel data set from Chile to explore the response of firm innovation to the increased competition arising from the China shock. In addition to covering...
The stagnation of productivity in the developing world, and indeed, across the globe, over the last two decades dictates a rethinking of productivity measurement, analysis, and policy. This volume presents...
Economists have long argued that developing countries have the potential for high productivity growth if they adopt existing technologies and apply them to the local context. This report brings to bear...
This paper studies the cross-country patterns of risky innovation and growth through the lens of international trade. It uses a simple theoretical framework of risky quality upgrading by firms under varying...