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External conditions and growth performance
A central dimension of globalization is the world trend toward larger trade and financial openness, observed in most industrial and developing economies. Openness increases the integration of world goods and capital markets, contributing to potential gains in growth and welfare. However, increased ...
Overoptimism boom-bust cycles and monetary policy in small open economies
In the 1990s several emerging market economies such as Chile Mexico and a number of southeast Asian countries displayed episodes of peaking growth rates combined with increasing current account deficits and appreciating currencies which ended with abrupt reversions in capital flows and recessions. In ...
Economic growth and the Chilean labor market
Este artículo analiza la dinámica del mercado laboral chileno en diferentes períodos de crecimiento económico. La evidencia muestra una marcada sincronía del crecimiento real del PIB con la tasa de desempleo y la creación de empleos. Específicamente, la tasa de desempleo cae y la creación de empleos ...
The effects of business cycles on growth
This paper explores the links between business cycles and long-run growth. Although it is clear from a theoretical point of view that both of these phenomena are driven by the same macroeconomic variables, the interaction between economic fluctuations and growth has been largely ignored in the academic ...
Flexibilidad microeconómica en américa latina
En este artículo se caracteriza el grado de inflexibilidad microeconómica en varios países de América Latina, y se concluye que Brasil, Chile y Colombia son más flexibles que México y Venezuela. Ladiferencia se explica principalmente por el comportamiento de los establecimientos grandes, que seajustan ...
The sources of economic growth: an overview
The importance of economic growth cannot be overstated. Income growth is ssential for achieving economic, social, and even political development. Countries that grow strongly and for sustained periods of time are able to reduce their poverty levels significantly, strengthen their democratic and political ...
It's not factor accumulation: stylized facts and growth models
The central problem in understanding economic development and growth is not, in fact, to understand the process by which an economy raises its savings rate and increases the rate of physical capital accumulation. Many development practitioners and researchers continue to target capital accumulation ...
Too poor to grow
Development theorists have long been intrigued by a variety of mechanisms capable of generating vicious cycles of poverty and stagnation—broadly referred to as poverty traps. These mechanisms highlight different ways in which poverty may deter growth and become self-perpetuating. Such situation may ...
La época dorada del crecimiento en Chile: explicaciones y proyecciones
Desde mediados de la década de los ochenta, el crecimiento en Chile ha destacado por su alto nivel y por su persistencia. Este artículo trata de dar algunos indicios acerca de los factores del alto crecimiento económico de los últimos 15 años y analiza hasta qué punto éstos son sostenibles en el tiempo. ...
Fuentes del crecimiento económico y la productividad en América Latina y el Caribe, 1990-2013
Este documento examina las experiencias de crecimiento de 23 países de América Latina y El Caribe en cuatro subperíodos de análisis entre 1990 y 2013. En función de la disponibilidad de datos, se ha realizado tres tipos de ejercicio. El primero abarca 18 países de América Latina y cinco de El Caribe, ...