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Effect of technological distance

17/02/2024
0.173 percentage points was the statistically significant effect of distance to the technological frontier on economic growth in Latin America in more than half of the cases analyzed (Zaman, 2024).
Cita 0.173 puntos porcentuales fue el efecto estadísticamente significativo de la distancia a la frontera tecnológica sobre el crecimiento económico en América Latina en más de la mitad de los casos analizados (Zaman, 2024).
Fuente Miethy, Zaman. (2024). Total factor productivity, transitional dynamics and endogenous growth accounting for Latin America: Evidence from two centuries' data. Economics of transition and institutional change, doi: 10.1111/ecot.12411

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