Understanding Latin America and the Caribbean's income gap / Jorge Thompson Araujo, Ekaterina Vostroknutova, Konstantin M. Wacker, and Mateo Clavijo, editors.

Includes bibliographical references.

Acknowledgments -- Executive summary -- Overview / Jorge Thompson Araujo, Ekaterina Vostroknutova, Konstantin M. Wacker, and Mateo Clavijo -- The Latin American efficiency gap -- Reconciling micro- and macro-based estimates of technology adoption lags in a model of endogenous technology adoption / Maya Eden and Ha Nguyen -- Structural change in Latin America : does the allocation of resources across sectors, products, and technologies explain the region's slow productivity growth? / Marc Schiffbauer, Hania Sahnoun, and Jorge Thompson Araujo -- Productivity convergence at firm level : new evidence from Americas / J.David Brown , Gustavo A. Crespi , Leonardo Iacovone A and Luca Marcolin -- Institutions and return to firms' innovation with a focus in Latin America / Ha Nguyen and Patricio A. Jaramillo -- Convergence, poverty, and macroeconomic volatility : a Latin American perspective / Konstantin M. Wacker -- List of boxes -- Table of figures.

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