The objectives of the study are the following: First, to describe the basic characteristics (or stylized facts) of economic growth in LAC countries. Second, to explain the differences across countries and over time in economic growth based on regression analysis. And, third, to forecast the changes in economic growth for the next decade based on both regression results and projections on the future behavior of growth determinants.
 A Decade Lost and Found: Mexico and Chile in the 1980s, R. Borgoeing and P. Kehoe (283 KB)
Barriers to Riches, S. Parente and E. Presscott (511 KB)
Economic Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean. Stilized Facts, Explanations, and Forecasts, by N. Loayza, P. Fajnzylber, and C. Calderon (550 KB)
Growth Without Governance, D. Kaufmann and A. Kraay (351 KB)
Industrial Policies and Growth: Lessons from International Experience, M. Noland and H. Pack (1231 KB)
Labor Market "Rigidity" and the Success of Economic Reforms Across More than One Hundred Countries, by A. Fortaleza and M. Rama (149 KB)
Macroeconomic Policies for Recovery and Growth, M. Buscaglia (726 KB)
Peru: Markets, Government and the Sources of Growth, E. Carranza, J. Fernandez-Baca, and E. Moron (418 KB)
Policy-Driven Productivity in Chile and MExico in the 1980s and the 1990s, J. Bergoeing, P. Kehoe, T. Kehoe and R. Soto (261 KB)
Policy Options for Meeting the Millennium Development Goals in Brazil: Can Micro-Simultations Help?, by F. Ferreira and P. Leite (234 KB)
The Political Economy of Latin America Economic Growth, F. Rodriguez (182 KB)
Trade Structure and Growth, by D. Ledermand and W. Maloney (118 KB)
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Other works on Growth:
Spatial Dimensions of Trade Liberalization and Economic Divergence: Mexico 1985-2002
Patricio Aroca, Mariano Bosch, and William F. Maloney (2005)
Agriculture and National Welfare Around the World
Claudio Bravo and Daniel Lederman (2004)
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