This paper revisits the historical roots of Latin America’s disappointing growth using a novel macro and trade-based growth decomposition and a simple model of industrialization in a commodities-exporting country with a large informal sector. The approach suggests the need to better qualify two opposite narratives: that the post-1982 (“neoliberal”) reforms have failed, and it is time to look back to the import substitution industrialization era for...
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2022/11/08
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Policy Research Working Paper
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WPS10227
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2022/11/08
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Latin America’s Growth: Looking through the Demand Glass
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De La Torre,Augusto; Ize,Alain.
Latin America’s Growth: Looking through the Demand Glass (English). Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 10227 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099546311082288505