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Author(s): María Marta Ferreyra; Mark Roberts
ISBN(s): 9781464812705, 1464812705
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 9.72 MB
Year: 2018
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1464812705 
ISBN 13: 9781464812705
Author: Maria Marta Ferreyra, Mark Roberts

With more than 70 percent of its population living in cities, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is among the most urbanized regions in the world. Yet, although its cities are, on average, more productive than those elsewhere in the world, their productivity lags that of North American and Western European cities. Closing this gap provides LAC with the opportunity to raise living standards and join the ranks of the world’s richest countries. Raising the Bar: Cities and Productivity in Latin America and the Caribbean is about the productivity of cities in LAC and the factors that help to explain its determination. Based on original empirical research, the report documents the high levels of population density and other features of LAC cities that mark them out from those in the rest of the world. The report also studies the role of three key factors – urban form, skills, and access to markets – in determining the productivity of LAC cities. It shows that while excessive congestion forces and inadequate metropolitan coordination seem to be stifling the benefits of agglomeration, LAC cities benefit from strong human capital externalities. It also finds that, within individual LAC countries, cities are poorly integrated with one another, which contributes to large differences in performance across cities and undermines their aggregate contribution to productivity at the national level.

Raising the Bar for Productive Cities in Latin America and the Caribbean 1st Table of contents:

Part I: Urbanization and Productivity in Latin America and the Caribbean

Chapter 1: Urbanization, Economic Development, and Structural Transformation

  • Introduction

  • The Origins of Cities in Latin America and the Caribbean

  • Urbanization, Economic Development, and Structural Transformation: How Does the LAC Region’s Performance Stack Up?

  • Conclusions

Chapter 2: The Many Dimensions of Urbanization and the Productivity of Cities in Latin America and the Caribbean

  • Introduction

  • Defining a Global Data Set of Urban Areas

  • Urban Areas in the LAC Region Are More Densely Populated Than Those Elsewhere

  • A Significant Share of Latin America and the Caribbean’s Urban Population Lives in Large MCAs

  • A Third of LAC Countries Analyzed Suffer from Potentially Excessive Primacy

  • Implications for National Productivity: Density and MCAs Matter, but Urban Primacy Does Not

  • International Benchmarking of LAC Urban Areas’ Productivity: Better Than Average, but Lagging the Global Frontier

  • Productivity is Highly Dispersed across LAC Urban Areas

  • Conclusions

Part II: The Determinants of City Productivity in Latin America and the Caribbean

Chapter 3: The Empirical Determinants of City Productivity

  • Introduction

  • Cities Are More Productive Than Rural Areas

  • Large Subnational Variations in Productivity, Explained Partly by Sorting

  • Explaining Underlying Variations in Productivity: The Three Theories

  • What about Firms? Evidence from World Bank Enterprise Surveys

  • Conclusions

Chapter 4: Transport Infrastructure and Agglomeration in Cities

  • Introduction

  • Transport, Agglomeration, and Productivity: A Brief Review

  • Transport in Latin America and the Caribbean: History, Current State, and Challenges

  • Roads and Agglomeration Economies: Evidence from Mexico

  • Conclusions

Chapter 5: Human Capital in Cities

  • Introduction

  • Some Stylized Facts

  • Returns to Aggregate Human Capital

  • Attracting Skilled Individuals to Cities

  • Conclusions

Chapter 6: Urban Form, Institutional Fragmentation, and Metropolitan Coordination

  • Introduction

  • Urban Form and Productivity

  • Institutional Fragmentation, Metropolitan Coordination, and Productivity

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