Price elasticity of Central American agricultural exports

Includes bibliography

Can Latin America fly?: revising the engines of growth

Includes bibliography

El efecto del TLCAN sobre las importaciones agropecuarias estadounidenses provenientes de México

Incluye Bibliografía

Changes in the distribution of income and the New Economic Model in Jamaica

Includes bibliography

Income distribution in Argentina, 1974-2000

Includes bibliography

The comparative advantage fallacy and a rule for convergence

Includes bibliography

Employment dynamics and crises in Latin America

Includes bibliography

Profit margins, financing and investment in the Peruvian business sector (1998-2008)

Includes bibliography

The country brand trap

Includes bibliography

Los recursos hídricos y la agricultura en el Istmo Centroamericano

Incluye Bibliografía

The United States-Central American Free Trade Agreement: fiscal implications for the Central American countries

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The People’s Republic of China and Latin America: the impact of Chinese economic growth on Latin American exports

The role of the People’s Republic of China in the world economy has grown substantially in recent decades, turning it into a strategic foreign trading partner for much of Latin America. Bilateral trade between the region and China totalled US$ 120 billion in 2009. This study analyses the income elasticity of the region’s exports to the country. The findings show that, assuming real gross domestic product (gdp) growth in China of about 7% a year, the value of Latin American exports to China (at 2005 prices) can be expected to increase by an average of about 10% a year between 2014 and 2019. In a more conservative scenario of 4.5% average annual growth in the Chinese economy over the period, exports would rise by about 7% a year.

Meta-analysis of the income and price elasticities of gasoline demand: public policy implications for Latin America

By means of a meta-analysis, this article sets out to estimate average values for the income and price elasticities of gasoline demand and to analyse the reasons for the variations in the elasticities reported by the literature. The findings show that there is publication bias, that the volatility of elasticity estimates is not due to sampling errors alone, and that there are systematic factors explaining these differences. The income and price elasticities of gasoline demand differ between the short and long run and by region, and the estimation can appropriately include the vehicle fleet and the prices of substitute goods, the data types and the estimation methods used. The presence of a low price elasticity suggests that a fuel tax will be inadequate to control rising consumption in a context of rapid economic growth.