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Book/Printed Material Understanding Latin America and the Caribbean's income gap

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Title

  • Understanding Latin America and the Caribbean's income gap

Names

  • Thompson Araujo, Jorge, editor
  • Vostroknutova, Ekaterina, editor

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group, 2016.

Contents

  • Acknowledgments -- Executive summary -- Overview / Jorge Thompson Araujo, Ekaterina Vostroknutova, Konstantin M. Wacker, and Mateo Clavijo -- The Latin American efficiency gap -- Reconciling micro- and macro-based estimates of technology adoption lags in a model of endogenous technology adoption / Maya Eden and Ha Nguyen -- 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 -- Productivity convergence at firm level : new evidence from Americas / J.David Brown , Gustavo A. Crespi , Leonardo Iacovone A & Luca Marcolin -- Institutions and return to firms' innovation with a focus in Latin America / Ha Nguyen and Patricio A. Jaramillo -- Convergence, poverty, and macroeconomic volatility : a Latin American perspective / Konstantin M. Wacker -- List of boxes -- Table of figures.

Headings

  • -  Income--Latin America
  • -  Income--Caribbean Area
  • -  Industrial productivity--Latin America
  • -  Industrial productivity--Caribbean Area
  • -  Technology--Latin America
  • -  Technology Caribbean Area

Notes

  • -  Includes bibliographical references.
  • -  Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • HC130.I5

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2015050534

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  • Unrestricted online access.

Online Format

  • image
  • pdf

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Chicago citation style:

Thompson Araujo, Jorge, and Ekaterina Vostroknutova, editor. Understanding Latin America and the Caribbean's income gap. Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group, 2016. Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2015050534/.

APA citation style:

Thompson Araujo, J. & Vostroknutova, E., editor. (2016) Understanding Latin America and the Caribbean's income gap. Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2015050534/.

MLA citation style:

Thompson Araujo, Jorge, and Ekaterina Vostroknutova, editor. Understanding Latin America and the Caribbean's income gap. Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group, 2016. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2015050534/>.