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  • Tables and Figures for: Is there a Caribbean sclerosis?: stagnating economic growth in the Caribbean
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    By Country Department Caribbean Group (VPC/CCB/CCB)
    This dataset was created to support 2014 Is There a Caribbean Sclerosis? Stagnating Economic Growth in the Caribbean on the following topics: economic growth, small economies, caribbean, productivity, competitiveness, macroeconomic instability. This report addresses several critical questions regarding Caribbean nations. Does size matter for economic growth and volatility? To what degree has Caribbean economic growth been inferior to that of ROSE? What could account for the Caribbean growth gap and what economic policies might decision-makers adopt to promote higher and sustainable growth?. The central focus is on six countries in the region, which will be referred to as the C6: The Bahamas, Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago. However, the analysis will sometimes include, most often in the aggregate, the countries of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS). The six members of the OECS used in this report are Antigua and Barbuda, the Commonwealth...
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    Geographic coverage Antigua and Barbuda · Bahamas · Barbados ...

    Temporal coverage 2000-2011

    Published date 2015-07-01

  • Data associated with: The Politics of Policies - IPES 2006
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    By Department of Research and Chief Economist (VPS/RES/RES)
    This dataset was created to support 2006 IPES - The Politics of Policies on the following topics: macroeconomics, government and democracy.
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    Geographic coverage Argentina · Bahamas · Barbados ...

    Temporal coverage 2012-2012

    Published date 2015-01-30

  • GVAR Data associated with: China's Emergence in the World Economy and Business Cycles in Latin America
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    By Department of Research and Chief Economist (VPS/RES/RES)
    This is the data used for the estimation of the GVAR model as in "China's Emergence in the World Economy and Business Cycles in Latin America" (access the study in the related URL Section). The dataset includes quarterly data for twenty-five major advanced and emerging economies plus the euro area, covering more than 90 percent of world GDP. The variables included in the dataset are real GDP, CPI inflation, real equity prices, real exchange rates, short-term and long-term interest rates, and the price of oil. Updates of this dataset -together with the baseline GVAR code- can be found in the Related URL section below. Years covered: 1979 - 2009.
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    Geographic coverage Argentina · Australia · Belgium ...

    Temporal coverage 1979-2009

    Published date 2012-04-13

  • Tables and Figures for: Jobs For Growth
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    By Social Protection and Labor Markets Division (VPS/SCL/SPL)
    Jobs are essential for the growth of individuals and countries alike. Achieving personal fulfillment is harder without a job, just as an economy as a whole cannot develop without the impetus of the labor market. These two perspectives unquestionably go hand in hand: from the individual perspective, finding a good job is a legitimate aspiration for anyone who wishes to support oneself and one's family; from the societal perspective, creating more and better jobs is essential to the achievement of lasting and equitable growth. Jobs for Growth rests on this dual vision. This book examines the performance of the region's labor market and, based on this analysis, proposes an integrated package of measures for both personal growth (through successful career paths) and economic growth (through more high-quality jobs and higher productivity). Over the past two decades, the bullish economic cycle has yielded undeniable gains for labor markets in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), among...
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    Geographic coverage Argentina · Bahamas · Barbados ...

    Temporal coverage 1990-2013

    Published date 2016-09-12

  • Productivity and Factor Accumulation in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Database 2014 Update
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    By Department of Research and Chief Economist (VPS/RES/RES)
    This database provides measures of labor productivity (LP), capital and labor productivity (KLP) and Total Factor Productivity computed by Daude and Fernández-Arias (2010) for the 1960-2011 period, along with the inputs used to calculate them. This data spans 74 countries of them.
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    Geographic coverage Argentina · Australia · Austria ...

    Temporal coverage 1950-2014

    Published date 2016-06-07