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Foreign direct investment and income inequality in Latin America: a sectoral analysis
(2016-04)
This paper analyses the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and income inequality in Latin America. In particular, it estimates the effect of FDI from a sectoral perspective, identifying three major sectors: ...
Latin America and the middle-income trap
(ECLAC, 2014-06)
Promising economic growth during the 2000s obfuscates the reality that Latin American countries are
facing the acute threat of a middle-income trap. In a review of the literature on the middle-income trap I
distinguish ...
Middle-income countries: a structural gap approach
(CEPAL, 2012-07-23)
At the thirty-third session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), which was held in Brasilia in 2010, member States adopted a resolution entrusting the secretariat with a new mandate to ...
Income distribution and poverty through crisis and adjustment
(2008-12)
This article analyses the costs in terms of income distribution of the crisis and adjustments of the 1980s, as well as the effects of the subsequent recovery and resumption of sustained growth patterns. This analysis is ...
Financing for development and middle income-countries: new challenges
(ECLAC, 2011-11)
A criterion commonly used to classify countries, including by the donor countries of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, focuses on income per capita as ...