By Carmen Pagés (eds.)
Age of productiveness bargains a glance at how the low productiveness in Latin the US and the Caribbean is combating the quarter from catching up with the constructed international. The authors glance past the conventional macro causes and dig right down to the and company point to discover the causes.
Read Online or Download The Age of Productivity: Transforming Economies from the Bottom Up PDF
Best business development books
Cities, Poverty and Development: Urbanization in the Third World
This learn provides a finished account of 3rd global urbanization. It discusses the evolution of 3rd global citie, the character of city and neighborhood disparities inside of nations, the reasons and styles of rural-urban migration, the constitution of city labour markets and the inability of effective employment, the city housing industry and renowned responses to it, city methods of existence and the adaption of migrants, a variety of styles of political clash, and present matters in city and local making plans.
Recognising Non-Formal and Informal Learning: Outcomes, Policies and Practices
Even if studying frequently happens inside formal settings and specified environments, loads of worthwhile studying additionally happens both intentionally or informally in way of life. coverage makers in OECD nations became more and more acutely aware that non-formal and casual studying represents a wealthy resource of human capital.
Conquering Global Markets: Secrets from the world’s most successful multinationals
Conquering worldwide Markets bargains exams of the problems, data, instances, and most sensible practices of mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and alliances during the global. utilizing details gleaned interviews with CEOs, the publication presents insights into making international M&As profitable.
Becoming Hewlett Packard: why strategic leadership matters
Invoice Hewlett and Dave Packard invented the version of the Silicon Valley start-up and set in movement a means of company changing into that made it attainable for HP to remodel itself six instances over the seventy seven years because its founding within the face of sweeping technological adjustments that felled so much of its rivals through the years.
- River Basin Development and Human Rights in Eastern Africa ― A Policy Crossroads
- The Economics and Management of Small Business: An International Perspective
- Remittances: Development Impact and Future Prospects
- The Age of Productivity: Transforming Economies from the Bottom Up (Development in the Americas (Paperback))
- The Humanitarian Response Index 2008: Donor Accountability in Humanitarian Action, 1st Edition
- Markets for Water: Potential and Performance (Natural Resource Management and Policy)
Additional info for The Age of Productivity: Transforming Economies from the Bottom Up
Sample text
In other words, a smaller labor force as a share of the population is not reflected in lower productivity. 3 Similarly, the age profile of the labor force also entails differences in experience akin to the quality of education. 1 for details). It is useful to relate this production function framework to a welfare framework, such as the traditional measure of GDP per capita (y ϭ Y/N), where N is the size of the population. This is an income measure commonly used to gauge welfare across countries.
Given the limited coverage of social security programs and other labor benefits, governments have implemented various social protection programs for workers without coverage. Social security and protection systems are justifiable for many reasons, and a vigorous social policy is clearly essential in a region characterized by so many deficiencies and inequities. However, well-intended but poorly conceived remedial solutions to low coverage reinforce the incentives for informal employment and aggravate their negative impact on productivity.
15 While the income boost produced by closing the productivity gap in this simple accounting calculation is sizable, it would apparently leave most of the observed income gap intact. 2)? In what follows, this question is addressed to show that this accounting attribution severely underestimates the effect that closing the productivity gap would have in closing the income gap because it does not consider that factor accumulation would in turn react to the higher returns generated by an increase in productivity.