APERTURA. GASTO PÚBLICO Y CONVERGENCIA EN AMÉRICA LATIN: UN MODELO ECONOMETRICO ESPACIAL

LIBERALIZATION, PUBLIC SPENDING AND CONVERGENCE IN LATIN AMERICA: AN SPATIAL ECONOMETRIC MODEL

Mendoza Jorge E

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Abstract: The study focuses on the analysis of economic growth of the Latin American countries, during the period 1950-2000 The methodology of the paper is based on the use of spatial econometric thechniques applied to a cross section and panel data. The results showed conditional convergence for the region from 1950 to 1975, and both absolute and conditional divergence from 1980 to 2000.

Keywords: Convergence; Latin America (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O11 O16 O38 O54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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Published in Comercio Exterior 9.57(2007): pp. 705-717

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