Publication: Latin America and the Caribbean Economic Review, April 2024 - Competition: The Missing Ingredient for Growth?
dc.contributor.author | Maloney, William | |
dc.contributor.author | Garriga, Pablo | |
dc.contributor.author | Meléndez, Marcela | |
dc.contributor.author | Morales, Raúl | |
dc.contributor.author | Jooste, Charl | |
dc.contributor.author | Sampi, James | |
dc.contributor.author | Araujo, Jorge Thompson | |
dc.contributor.author | Vostroknutova, Ekaterina | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-03-20T14:37:32Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-03-20T14:37:32Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2024-04-10 | |
dc.description.abstract | Latin America and the Caribbean has made slow but consistent progress addressing the imbalances induced by the pandemic in an international environment that is just now showing signs of stabilizing. Despite favorable macroeconomic management, high interest rates and fiscal imbalances remain challenging while growth rates remain lackluster due to long-standing structural issues. Looking forward, an aging workforce and rising violence will increasingly complicate policy. This report focuses particularly on weak competitive forces as a source of low productivity, low growth, and low welfare in LAC. It emphasizes the need for effective competition institutions, pro-competition regulatory frameworks, complementary policies to improve the capabilities of workers and firms, and enhanced innovation systems, to prepare local industries to reach the technological frontier and face global competition. Furthermore, the report underscores the need for reforms to prevent large businesses from exerting undue political influence over policy decisions. | en |
dc.description.abstract | América Latina y el Caribe ha avanzado de forma lenta aunque constante en solucionar los desequilibrios provocados por la pandemia, en un entorno internacional que recién ahora comienza a mostrar señales de estar estabilizándose. A pesar de una gestión macroeconómica favorable, las elevadas tasas de interés y los desequilibrios fiscales siguen planteando desafÃos, mientras que las tasas de crecimiento siguen siendo mediocres debido a problemas estructurales de larga data. Hacia adelante, el envejecimiento de la fuerza laboral y la violencia creciente complicarán cada vez más el entorno normativo. Este informe pone especial atención en la debilidad de las fuerzas competitivas como fuente de la baja productividad, bajo crecimiento y bajo nivel de bienestar de ALC. Hace hincapié en la necesidad de contar con organismos de competencia efectivos, marcos normativos favorables a la competencia, polÃticas complementarias para mejorar las capacidades de trabajadores y empresas, y mejores sistemas de innovación con el fin de preparar a las industrias locales para que alcancen la frontera tecnológica y enfrenten la competencia mundial. Asimismo, el informe subraya la necesidad de reformas para impedir que las grandes empresas ejerzan una influencia polÃtica indebida sobre la formulación de polÃticas. | es |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1596/978-1-4648-2111-0 | |
dc.identifier.isbn | 978-1-4648-2111-0 (electronic) | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10986/41230 | |
dc.publisher | Washington, DC: World Bank | |
dc.rights | CC BY 3.0 IGO | |
dc.rights.holder | World Bank | |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ | |
dc.subject | ECONOMIC GROWTH | |
dc.subject | COMPETITION | |
dc.subject | INNOVATION | |
dc.subject | PRODUCTIVITY | |
dc.subject | FIRM CAPABILITIES | |
dc.subject | MARKET CONCENTRATION | |
dc.subject | BUSINESS POLITICAL POWER | |
dc.subject | TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION | |
dc.title | Latin America and the Caribbean Economic Review, April 2024 - Competition: The Missing Ingredient for Growth? | en |
dc.title | Informe Económico América Latina y el Caribe, Abril 2024: Competencia: ¿el ingrediente que falta para crecer? | es |
dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
okr.associatedcontent | https://www.worldbank.org/en/region/lac/brief/lac-chief-economist Office of the Chief Economist, Latin America and the Caribbean | |
okr.docurl | https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/099041024190036068/p1812111b16ff90c01ae8d1bd2393d9a52a | |
okr.guid | 099041024190036068 | |
okr.guid | 099041024190012614 | |
okr.guid | 099041024190032046 | |
okr.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1596/41230 | |
okr.identifier.report | 189155 | |
okr.language.supported | es | es |
okr.region.geographical | Latin America and the Caribbean | |
okr.topic | Private Sector Development | |
okr.topic | Macroeconomics and Economic Growth | |
okr.topic | Industry | |
okr.unit | Office of the Chief Economist, Latin America and the Caribbean | |
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