Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean 2008

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Knowledge generation and protection: intellectual property, innovation and economic development

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The monetary and real effects of the financial opening up of national economies to the exterior: the case of Chile 1975-1978

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National accounts of Caribbean countries: methodologies, sources and quality, and a comparative Caribbean study

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Intellectual property rights and sustainable development: a survey of major issues

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Water property rights and the State: the United States experience

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Property rights and the rural land market in Latin America

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False dilemmas and real options in current Latin American debate

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Monetary and real repercussions of financial opening-up to the exterior: the case of Chile: 1975-1978

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Privatization law and water institutions

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Economic growth and real volatility: The case of Latin America and the Caribbean

Using a new database of quarterly data for 21 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean for the 1990-2012 period, this document shows that the duration of GDP contractions appears to be a rather robust indicator of real volatility, and is negatively correlated with long run growth in Latin America and the Caribbean during the period. These results are consistent with different theoretical hypotheses in the literature that relate the duration of GDP contractions with economic growth. They also show that the relationship between real volatility and economic growth in the region is robust to the inclusion of external variables that control for external uncertainty and volatility.