Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/237455 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
IDB Working Paper Series No. IDB-WP-1159
Publisher: 
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Washington, DC
Abstract: 
This paper presents the framework and methodology for the economic valuation of the knowledge-based economy in five Latin American (LA) countries, namely Costa Rica, El Salvador, Mexico, Peru and the Dominican Republic, for which a new database (IDB-Ivie, 2020) has recently been released. It uses an alternative approach to measuring the knowledge intensity of economies as to those based on the aggregation of industries according to selected indicators such as research and development (R&D) expenditure or labor force skills. Instead, we follow an economic approach rooted in the growth accounting methodology, determining the contribution of each individual factor of production (capital and labor) according to the prices of the services it provides. This methodology will be applied to the above-mentioned LA countries, and to the United States and Spain, which are used as benchmarks. Data are available for the period 1995-2016.
Subjects: 
Knowledge economy
Growth accounting
Capital services
Human capital
Fiscal rules
Public investment
Fiscal policy
Brazil
JEL: 
O33
O47
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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