scholarly journals Economic growth and gender inequality: An analysis of panel data for five Latin American countries

CEPAL Review ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2017 (122) ◽  
pp. 79-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Vásconez Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Panel Data ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Latin American Countries

scholarly journals Idle Youth and Macroeconomics in Latin America

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 98
Author(s):  
Luis Rene Caceres
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Cross Section ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Close Association ◽  
Social Spending ◽  
Domestic Saving ◽  
Saving Rate ◽  
Economic Vulnerability ◽  
Latin American Countries

This paper analyzes the macroeconomic repercussions of the existence of idle youth in a cross-section of Latin American countries. The results indicate that idle youth has a close association with the indices of gender inequality and governance, and with informality. By estimating a series of equations, it was possible to infer that idle youth exerts adverse effects on economic growth, the domestic saving rate and economic vulnerability. It is also reported that the prevention of idle youth rests on substantial increases in tax revenues so as to increase social spending.

An Introduction to Gender and Representation in Latin America

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie A. Schwindt-Bayer
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
Latin American Politics ◽  
Gender And Politics ◽  
Women's Representation ◽  
Political Crises ◽  
Women’S Representation ◽  
And Gender

In this introductory chapter of Gender and Representation in Latin America, Leslie A. Schwindt-Bayer argues that gender inequality in political representation in Latin America is rooted in institutions and the democratic challenges and political crises facing Latin American countries. She situates the book in two important literatures—one on Latin American politics and democratic institutions, the other on gender and politics—and then explains how the book will explore the ways that institutions and democratic challenges and political crises moderate women’s representation and gender inequality. She introduces the book’s framework of analyzing the causes and consequences of women’s representation, overviews the organization of the volume, and summarizes the main arguments of the chapters.

Direct Foreign Investment and Economic Development in Latin America: Perspectives for the Future

1989 ◽  
Vol 21 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 221-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Paus
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Foreign Investment ◽  
Debt Crisis ◽  
Direct Foreign Investment ◽  
Bank Lending ◽  
Economic Growth And Development ◽  
International Bank ◽  
The Future ◽  
Latin American Countries

Since 1982, most Latin American countries have witnessed slow economic growth and a persistent net transfer of funds to the rest of the world as a result of sharply reduced inflows of private international bank lending and large debt payment obligations. Against this background direct foreign investment (DFI) has received increasing attention as one important element in overcoming the present stagnation-cum-debt crisis as well as in contributing to renewed economic growth. This article explores the possible contributions of DFI to the future economic growth and development of the region.1

scholarly journals The nexus between energy consumption, economic growth, and urbanization in Latin American and Caribbean countries: An approach with PVAR model

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matheus Koengkan
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Panel Data ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Caribbean Region ◽  
Vector Autoregressive ◽  
Data Vector ◽  
Latin America And Caribbean ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Latin American And Caribbean

The nexus between energy consumption, economic growth and urbanization was analyzed for a panel of twenty-one Latin American and Caribbean countries over a period from 1980-2014. The Panel Data Vector Autoregressive (PVAR) was used in order to analyze the relationship among all variables. The results indicated that there is a unidirectional relationship between urbanization and energy consumption, and a bidirectional nexus among economic growth and energy consumption in Latin America and Caribbean region.

Wage- and profit-led growth regimes: a panel-data approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 394-412
Author(s):  
Guilherme de Oliveira ◽  
Eduardo Prado Souza
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Panel Data ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Structural Characteristics ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Domestic Investment ◽  
Growth Regime ◽  
Investment Function ◽  
Trade Channel

The extensive empirical effort made in the growth and distribution literature to estimate whether economic growth is wage- or profit-led has not sufficiently considered the theoretical foundation of the Neo-Kaleckian model. This paper attempts to respect key tenets of the investment function by estimating a panel-data model in which country-specific structural characteristics and possible endogenous relationships in income distribution and economic growth are explicitly considered. The identification strategy is based on several estimates of the capital stock and the rate of capacity utilization for 61 countries over the period between 1995 and 2014. The main results suggest that the growth regime was wage-led in developed countries, while most developing countries exhibited a profit-led growth regime. Interestingly, however, while the profit-led regime occurs through the international trade channel in Latin American countries, in other developing countries, the causality channel is mainly related to the domestic investment function.

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