Jobless Growth In The Dominican Republic

Author : Christian Krohn-Hansen
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781503631571

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Jobless Growth in the Dominican Republic by Christian Krohn-Hansen Pdf

The Dominican Republic has posted impressive economic growth rates over the past thirty years. Despite this, the generation of new, good jobs has been remarkably weak. How have ordinary and poor Dominicans worked and lived in the shadow of the country's conspicuous growth rates? This book considers this question through an ethnographic exploration of the popular economy in the Dominican capital. Focusing on the city's precarious small businesses, including furniture manufacturers, food stalls, street-corner stores, and savings and credit cooperatives, Krohn-Hansen shows how people make a living, tackle market shifts, and the factors that characterize their relationship to the state and pervasive corruption. Empirically grounded, this book examines the condition of the urban masses in Santo Domingo, offering an original and captivating contribution to the scholarship on popular economic practices, urban changes, and today's Latin America and the Caribbean. This will be essential reading for scholars and policy makers.

Author : Mr.Umidjon Abdullaev,Mr.Marcello Estevao
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781475514575

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Growth and Employment in the Dominican Republic by Mr.Umidjon Abdullaev,Mr.Marcello Estevao Pdf

The Dominican Republic has posted high rates of output and productivity growth, but labor market indicators have remained weak during the past 20 years. This paper documents these trends, showing that the rapid productivity growth originates in a few sectors, while the bulk of job creation is concentrated elsewhere. The speed of job creation has not been enough to raise employment rates, and lackluster real earnings along with still-rampant labor market informality suggest that most of the new jobs are of low quality. Low real wages and low labor force participation suggest the need of raising market wages above fallback incomes to attract individuals to the labor force. For that, measures to improve education and reduce product market distortions would be helpful.

Author : Rosemary Vargas-Lundius
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Agricultural laborers
ISBN : UOM:39015014449071

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Peasants in Distress by Rosemary Vargas-Lundius Pdf

Author : Carmen Pag s,Ga lle Le Borgne Pierre,Stefano Scarpetta
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821380257

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Job Creation in Latin America and the Caribbean by Carmen Pag s,Ga lle Le Borgne Pierre,Stefano Scarpetta Pdf

More than a decade has passed since the introduction of comprehensive macroeconomic stabilization packages and trade, fiscal, and financial market reforms in Latin America and the Caribbean. However, growth prospects remain disappointing; labor markets show lackluster performance, with low participation rates, high and persistent informality, and, in some cases, open unemployment. Creating viable and lasting employment is vital to reduce poverty and spread prosperity in the region. The failure to create more and more productive and rewarding jobs carries substantial political, social, and economic costs. 'Job Creation in Latin America and the Caribbean: Recent Trends and Policy Challenges' provides a thorough examination of the labor market trends in the region in recent decades and assesses the role that labor demand and labor supply factors have played in shaping these outcomes.

Author : Ramona Hernández
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780231116220

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The Mobility of Workers Under Advanced Capitalism by Ramona Hernández Pdf

Using Dominicans in New York City as a case study, Ramona Hern?ndez challenges the old belief that workers necessarily migrate from one region to another because of supply and demand or because of a de facto government policy to make people leave or stay. As a result, she shows that the traditional correlation between migration and economic progress does not always hold true.

Author : Leon F. Bouvier,David E. Simcox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Alien labor
ISBN : UOM:39015016975628

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Many Hands, Few Jobs by Leon F. Bouvier,David E. Simcox Pdf

Author : Robert E. Looney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351046947

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Handbook of International Trade Agreements by Robert E. Looney Pdf

International trade has, for decades, been central to economic growth and improved standards of living for nations and regions worldwide. For most of the advanced countries, trade has raised standards of living, while for most emerging economies, growth did not begin until their integration into the global economy. The economic explanation is simple: international trade facilitates specialization, increased efficiency and improved productivity to an extent impossible in closed economies. However, recent years have seen a significant slowdown in global trade, and the global system has increasingly come under attack from politicians on the right and on the left. The benefits of open markets, the continuation of international co-operation, and the usefulness of multilateral institutions such as the World Trade Organization (WTO), International Monetary Fund and World Bank have all been called into question. While globalization has had a broadly positive effect on overall global welfare, it has also been perceived by the public as damaging communities and social classes in the industrialized world, spawning, for example, Brexit, and the US exit from the Transpacific Partnership. The purpose of this volume is to examine international and regional preferential trade agreements (PTAs), which offer like-minded countries a possible means to continue receiving the benefits of economic liberalization and expanded trade. What are the strengths and weaknesses of such agreements, and how can they sustain growth and prosperity for their members in an ever-challenging global economic environment? The Handbook is divided into two parts. The first, Global Themes, offers analysis of issues including the WTO, trade agreements and economic development, intellectual property rights, security and environmental issues, and PTAs and developing countries. The second part examines regional and country-specific agreements and issues, including NAFTA, CARICOM, CETA, the Pacific Alliance, the European Union, EFTA, ECOWAS, the SADC, TTIP, RCEP and the TPP (now the CPTPP), as well as the policies of countries such as Japan and Australia.

Author : Marion Werner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781118941980

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Global Displacements by Marion Werner Pdf

Challenging the main ways we debate globalization, Global Displacements reveals how uneven geographies of capitalist development shape—and are shaped by—the aspirations and everyday struggles of people in the global South. Makes an original contribution to the study of globalization by bringing together critical development and feminist theoretical approaches Opens up new avenues for the analysis of global production as a long-term development strategy Contributes novel theoretical insights drawn from the everyday experiences of disinvestment and precarious work on people’s lives and their communities Represents the first analysis of increasing uneven development among countries in the Caribbean Calls for more rigorous studies of long accepted notions of the geographies of inequality and poverty in the global South

Author : Matias E. Margulis
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781503634503

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Shadow Negotiators by Matias E. Margulis Pdf

Shadow Negotiators is the first book to demonstrate that United Nations (UN) organizations have intervened to influence the discourse, agenda, and outcomes of international trade lawmaking at the World Trade Organization (WTO). While UN organizations lack a seat at the bargaining table at the WTO, Matias E. Margulis argues that these organizations have acted as "shadow negotiators" engaged in political actions intended to alter the trajectory and results of multilateral trade negotiations. He draws on analysis of one of the most contested issues in global trade politics, agricultural trade liberalization, to demonstrate interventions by four different UN organizations—the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Food Programme (WFP), the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), and the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food (SRRTF). By identifying several novel intervention strategies used by UN actors to shape the rules of global trade, this book shows that UN organizations chose to intervene in trade lawmaking not out of competition with the WTO or ideological resistance to trade liberalization, but out of concerns that specific trade rules could have negative consequences for world food security—an outcome these organizations viewed as undermining their social purpose to reduce world hunger and protect the human right to food.

Author : Mihai Varga
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781503634183

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Poverty as Subsistence by Mihai Varga Pdf

Poverty as Subsistence explores the "propertizing" land reform policy that the World Bank advocated throughout the transitioning countries of Eurasia, expecting poverty reduction to result from distributing property titles over agricultural land to local (rural) populations. China's early 1980s land reform offered support for this expectation, but while the spread of propertizing reform to post-communist Eurasia created numerous "subsistence" smallholders, it failed to stimulate entrepreneurship or market-based production among the rural poor. Varga argues that the World Bank advocated a simplified version of China's land reform that ignored a key element of successful reforms: the smallholders' immediate environment, the structure of actors and institutions determining whether smallholders survive and grow in their communities. With concrete insights from analysis of the land reform program throughout post-communist Eurasia and multisited fieldwork in Romania and Ukraine, this book details how and why land reform led to subsistence and the mechanisms underpinning informal commercialization.

Author : Paul Shaffer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780192870056

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Immiserizing Growth Fails the Poor by Paul Shaffer Pdf

Immiserizing Growth presents a conceptualization of immiserizing growth which combines the notions of failed and malevolent inclusion, being bypassed, and 'avoidably' harmed by growth, respectively.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Condiciones de trabajo - America Latina
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Pending Issues in Protection, Productivity Growth, and Poverty Reduction by Anonim Pdf

This paper selectively synthesizes much of the research on Latin American and Caribbean labor markets in recent years. Several themes emerge that are particularly relevant to ongoing policy dialogues. First, labor legislation matters, but markets may be less segmented than previously thought. The impetus to voluntary informality, which appears to be a substantial fraction of the sector, implies that the design of social safety nets and labor legislation needs to take a more integrated view of the labor market, taking into account the cost-benefit analysis workers and firms make about whether to interact with formal institutions. Second, the impact of labor market institutions on productivity growth has probably been underemphasized. Draconian firing restrictions increase litigation and uncertainty surrounding worker separations, reduce turnover and job creation, and poorly protect workers. But theory and anecdotal evidence also suggest that they, and other related state or union induced rigidities, may have an even greater disincentive effect on technological adoption, which accounts for half of economic growth. Finally, institutions can affect poverty and equity, although the effects seem generally small and channels are not always clear. Overall, the present constellation of labor regulations serves workers and firms poorly and both could benefit from substantial reform.

Author : United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005-12-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789211555684

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Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean 2004-2005 by United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean Pdf

This year's edition of the Economic survey of Latin America and the Caribbean,the fifty-seventh in this series, is divided into two parts. The first analyses the main features of the regional economy, while the second examines the situation in the individual countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. The full statistical appendix is published in electronic format for ease of data processing.

Author : Paul Shaffer,Ravi Kanbur,Richard Sandbrook
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780192568335

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Immiserizing Growth by Paul Shaffer,Ravi Kanbur,Richard Sandbrook Pdf

Immiserizing growth occurs when growth fails to benefit, or harms, those at the bottom. It is not a new concept, appearing in some of the towering figures of the classical tradition of political economy including Malthus, Ricardo, and Marx. It is also not empirically insignificant, occurring in between 10% and 35% of cases. In spite of this, it has not received its due attention in the academic literature, dominated by the prevailing narrative that 'growth is good for the poor'. Immiserizing Growth: When Growth Fails the Poor challenges this view to arrive at a better understanding of when, why, and how growth fails the poor. Taking a diverse disciplinary perspective, Immiserizing Growth combines discussion of mechanisms of this troubling economic phenomenon with empirical data on trends in growth, poverty, and related welfare indicators. It draws on political economy, applied social anthropology, and development studies, including contributions from experts in these fields. A number of methodological approaches are represented including statistical analysis of household survey and cross-country data, detailed ethnographic work and case study analysis drawing on secondary data. Geographical coverage is wide including Bolivia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria, the People's Republic of China, Singapore, and South Korea, in addition to cross-country analysis. This volume is the first full-length treatment of immiserizing growth, and constitutes an important step in redirecting attention to this major challenge.

Author : Mr.Umidjon Abdullaev,Mr.Marcello Estevao
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781475518573

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Growth and Employment in the Dominican Republic by Mr.Umidjon Abdullaev,Mr.Marcello Estevao Pdf

The Dominican Republic has posted high rates of output and productivity growth, but labor market indicators have remained weak during the past 20 years. This paper documents these trends, showing that the rapid productivity growth originates in a few sectors, while the bulk of job creation is concentrated elsewhere. The speed of job creation has not been enough to raise employment rates, and lackluster real earnings along with still-rampant labor market informality suggest that most of the new jobs are of low quality. Low real wages and low labor force participation suggest the need of raising market wages above fallback incomes to attract individuals to the labor force. For that, measures to improve education and reduce product market distortions would be helpful.