The age of productivity
Subtitle: transforming economies from the bottom up
By: edited by Carmen Pagés.
Contributors: Pagés, Carmen.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Inter-American Development Bank
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780230623521
Subjects: Labor productivity -- Latin America; Labor productivity -- Caribbean Area; Manpower policy -- Latin America; Manpower policy -- Caribbean Area
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The age of productivity; title: Aggregate productivity : the key to unlocking Latin America's development potential; title: Productivity in Latin America : the challenge of the service sector; title: Productivity from the bottom up : firms and resource allocation in Latin America; title: Trade and productivity : a route to reallocation with a high transport toll; title: Why credit matters for productivity; title: Taxes and productivity : a game of hide and seek; title: Safe and sound social policy : reconciling protection with productivity; title: Big questions about small firms; title: The importance of ideas : innovation and productivity in Latin America; title: Phantom or phoenix? : industrial policies in Latin America today; title: The politics of productivity.