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Date issued: 3월 2010 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Tello, Mario D.;Távara, José

This paper assesses the institutional setting and productive impact of selected productive development policies (PDPs), institutions, and programs implemented in Peru during the period 1990-2007. The…

Date issued: 3월 2010 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Alston, Lee J.;Mueller, Bernardo;Melo, Marcus André;Pereira, Carlos

This paper explores the link between Brazil's political institutions and its disappointing productivity and growth in recent decades. Although political institutions provide the president with…

Date issued: 3월 2010 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Rosales-Tijerino, Julio;Rivera, Luis;Monge-González, Ricardo

This paper analyzes five Productive Development Policies (PDPs) implemented in Costa Rica, finding that they are not optimally addressing market failures. Moreover, government failures rather than…

Date issued: 3월 2010
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank


Date issued: 3월 2010
Author(s): Maldonado, René;Bajuk, Natasha;Watson, Gregory

In 2009 remittance flows to Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) declined as a result of the impact of the global financial crisis on countries in which migrants from the region live and work. The…

Date issued: 3월 2010
Author(s): Maldonado, René;Bajuk, Natasha;Watson, Gregory

Durante el 2009, los flujos de remesas que reciben los países de América Latina y el Caribe (ALC) experimentaron una contracción como consecuencia de los efectos de la crisis financiera global en los…

Date issued: 3월 2010 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Panadeiros, Monica;Benfield, Warren

Jamaica seems to be a puzzling case for economic growth: despite the structural reforms implemented in the last three decades and adequate investment levels, real GDP per capita is roughly the same…

Date issued: 3월 2010
Author(s): Blyde, Juan S.;Pinheiro, Armando Castelar;Daude, Christian;Fernández-Arias, Eduardo

In the first eight decades of the 20th century, Brazil ranked among the countries with highest growth rates in the world. During the period 1930-80, in particular, it managed to reduce its per…

Date issued: 3월 2010 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Antón-Sarabia, Arturo;Hernández, Fausto

Mexican public finances are weak; national tax collection as a percentage of GDP is among the lowest in the world. On the other hand, expenditure needs are enormous. There have been several attempts…

Date issued: 3월 2010
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

The period covered by MERCOSUR Report 14 (July 2008-June 2009) was marked by the international crisis. The inflationary phase of the crisis (August 2007-June 2008) fuelled certain expansionary trends…