Understanding Latin America and the Caribbean's income gap
By: Jorge Thompson Araujo, Ekaterina Vostroknutova, Konstantin M. Wacker, and Mateo Clavijo, editors
Series: Directions in development
Publisher: The World Bank Group
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9781464804502; 9781464804519
Subjects: Industrial productivity; Income; Technology; Technology Caribbean Area
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Executive summary; title: Overview / Jorge Thompson Araujo, Ekaterina Vostroknutova, Konstantin M. Wacker, and Mateo Clavijo; title: The Latin American efficiency gap; title: Reconciling micro- and macro-based estimates of technology adoption lags in a model of endogenous technology adoption / Maya Eden and Ha Nguyen; title: Structural change in Latin America : does the allocation of resources across sectors, products, and technologies explain the region's slow productivity growth? / Marc Schiffbauer, Hania Sahnoun, and Jorge Thompson Araujo; title: Productivity convergence at firm level : new evidence from Americas / J.David Brown , Gustavo A. Crespi , Leonardo Iacovone A & Luca Marcolin; title: Institutions and return to firms' innovation with a focus in Latin America / Ha Nguyen and Patricio A. Jaramillo; title: Convergence, poverty, and macroeconomic volatility : a Latin American perspective / Konstantin M. Wacker; title: List of boxes; title: Table of figures.