Revisiting the economic growth on Latin American and Caribbean Countries: The role of trade and democracy

IF 1.2 Q3 ECONOMICS

Research in Economics Pub Date : 2024-07-06 DOI:10.1016/j.rie.2024.100985

Vitor Bernard de Souza Santos , Mauricio Vaz Lobo Bittencourt

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Abstract

Latin American and Caribbean countries have had a singular path of growth throughout their history. This paper aimed to analyze the economic growth in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) countries, setting the focus on the politics and trade outcomes. Working with a dynamic panel of biannual growth from 1981 to 2018 for nineteen countries, we apply the System Generalized Method of Moments (SYS-GMM), allowing to some covariates to be endogenous to the growth process. We do not observe income convergence in LAC countries, as well as any effect of being a democracy on growth. We found a positive and significant effect of trade measures on growth. We perform a series of alternative specifications and our main results do not change.

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重新审视拉丁美洲和加勒比国家的经济增长：贸易和民主的作用

拉丁美洲和加勒比国家在其历史上一直走着一条独特的增长之路。本文旨在分析拉丁美洲和加勒比地区（LAC）国家的经济增长，重点关注政治和贸易成果。我们采用系统广义矩量法（SYS-GMM）对 19 个国家从 1981 年到 2018 年的两年期增长进行动态面板分析，允许某些协变量是增长过程的内生变量。我们没有观察到拉丁美洲和加勒比国家的收入趋同，也没有观察到民主制度对经济增长的影响。我们发现贸易措施对经济增长有积极而显著的影响。我们采用了一系列替代规格，主要结果没有变化。

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Research in Economics ECONOMICS-

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1.40

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89 days

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