The age of productivity : transforming economies from the bottom up
Productivity, the main driver of economic prosperity, is languishing in Latin America and the Caribbean and is preventing the region from catching up with the developed world. Asking why the region is falling farther and farther behind, this book looks beyond the traditional macro explanations and d...
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| Language: | English |
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[Washington, D.C.] : New York :
Inter-American Development Bank ; Palgrave Macmillan ,
c2010
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| Series: | Development in the Americas
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The age of productivity
- 2. Aggregate productivity : the key to unlocking Latin America's development potential
- 3. Productivity in Latin America : the challenge of the service sector
- 4. Productivity from the bottom up : firms and resource allocation in Latin America
- 5. Trade and productivity : a route to reallocation with a high transport toll
- 6. Why credit matters for productivity
- 7. Taxes and productivity : a game of hide and seek
- 8. Safe and sound social policy : reconciling protection with productivity
- 9. Big questions about small firms
- 10. The importance of ideas : innovation and productivity in Latin America
- 11. Phantom or phoenix? : industrial policies in Latin America today
- 12. The politics of productivity