Efficiency Performance of Latin American vis-à-vis North American Countries between 1980 and 2019

Mario Seffino and German Gonzalez
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Mario Seffino: CEA/UNCPBA
German Gonzalez: IIESS/UNS-CONICET

No 270, Working Papers from Red Nacional de Investigadores en Economía (RedNIE)

Abstract: This article compares the behavior of total factor productivity between 16 Latin American countries and the United States and Canada for the period 1980-2019 using an order-m nonparametric estimator together with the Malmqüist index. The results showed a setback in terms of productivity in Latin America when comparing a period of 40 years from end to end. Consequently, the gap between the Latin American economies and the benchmark has widened. However, a good performance in terms of technical change can be observed between 2010 and 2019 in Latin American countries.

Pages: 33 pages
Date: 2023-09
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