Export growth in Latin America: policies and performance

Includes bibliography

Economic growth with equity: challenges for Latin America

Includes bibliography

The impact of structural reforms on growth in Latin America and the Caribbean: an empirical estimation

Includes bibliography

Trade and growth in Chile

Includes bibliography

Industrial policy, comparative advantages and growth

Includes bibliography

The economics of demand-led growth: theory and evidence for Brazil

Includes bibliography

Stylized features of the investment-growth connection in Latin America, 1980-2012

Estimates of investment and its components in Latin America over the past 30 years are used to review stylized facts relating to investment and explore factors that explain its connection with economic growth. In particular, the low level of investment, the reduction in public spending in the 1980s and its partial recovery along with private investment between 2003 and 2010 are explored. It is found that the increase in national income —on the back of rising terms of trade— made it possible to increase national saving and its contribution to financing investment between 2004 and 2008. The analysis of causality between the investment ratio and growth in gross domestic product (gdp) suggest that —for a considerable number of Latin American countries— changes in the growth rate have preceded changes in the investment ration in the period under study.