Documents et rapports
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Engineers, Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas (anglais)
This paper offers the first evidence on the prevalence of a central actor in modern growth theory—the engineer. Using newly collected sub-national, and international data as well as historical case studies...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6814 Date du document: 1 mars 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Valencia Caicedo,Felipe,Maloney,William F.
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The persistence of (subnational) fortune : geography, agglomeration, and institutions in the new world (anglais)
Using subnational historical data, this paper establishes the within country persistence of economic activity in the New World over the last half millennium. The paper constructs a data set incorporating...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6187 Date du document: 1 septembre 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Maloney,William F.,Valencia Caicedo,Felipe
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The Washington consensus : assessing a damaged brand (anglais)
The authors analyze the Washington Consensus, which at its original formulation reflected views not only from Washington, but also from Latin America. Tracing the life of the Consensus from a Latin American...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5316 Date du document: 1 mai 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Birdsall,Nancy M.,Valencia Caicedo,Felipe,De La Torre,Augusto