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Plenty of ink has been devoted to the topic of trade and productivity, particularly in Latin America and the Caribbean. Even though the results are mixed when country and sector data are used, most of the more robust evidence at the firm level seems to confirm what professional economists have known for centuries: trade boosts productivity (see IDB 2002; Fernandes 2007; López-Córdova and Mesquita Moreira 2004; Muendler 2002; and Pavcnik 2002).
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Pagés, C. (2010). Trade and Productivity: A Route to Reallocation with a High Transport Toll. In: Pagés, C. (eds) The Age of Productivity. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230107618_5
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