Call for Proposals: Productivity in Latin America
The growth experience in Latin America over the past 50 years has been disappointing. The income per capita gap with respect to the United States has remained almost unchanged in stark contrast with the performance of other regions such as Asia. This is largely explained by the slow growth in aggregate productivity in Latin America.
CAF wants to promote a research agenda that aims to shed light on the following broad topics:
- Measuring factor misallocation and its cost
- Informality
- Identifying specific distortions and frictions that negatively impact aggregate productivity
- Productivity-improving public policies
The proposals should be uploaded through the form below no later than March 15th, 2016. Proposals will be selected on the basis of the novelty of the work, methodological rigorousness and policy relevance for Latin America. A maximum of four research proposals will be awarded funding, and each will receive $US 15,000 to fund the research. For inqueries regarding the call for proposals, please send an e-mail to investigacion@caf.com.
The proposal will be reviewed by a committee integrated by Marcela Eslava (Universidad de los Andes), Diego Restuccia (University of Toronto), Nezih Guner ((ICREA-MOVE, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and Barcelona GSE), John Haltiwanger (University of Maryland), Pablo Sanguinetti (CAF), Manuel Toledo (CAF) and Fernando Alvarez-Parra (CAF).