Bittencourt, Manoel(University of Pretoria, Department of Economics, 2010-06)
In this paper we investigate the role of financial development, or more wide-spread access to finance, in generating economic growth in four Latin American countries between 1980 and 2007. The results, based on the ...
Bittencourt, Manoel(University of Pretoria, Department of Economics, 2010-04)
In this paper we investigate the role of poor macroeconomic performance, in terms of high rates of inflation, in determining economic growth in four Latin American countries between 1970 and 2007. The empirical results, ...
Bittencourt, Manoel(University of Pretoria, Department of Economics, 2009-09)
We test for the populist view of state capture in Latin America between 1970 and 2003. The empirical results based on the relatively novel panel time-series data and analysis confirm the prediction that recently-elected ...
