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    Identifying Economic and Migration Effects of US Sanctions: Subnational Evidence from Venezuela’s Oil Producing Regions

    Starting in 2013, Venezuela experienced one of the largest economic collapses and refugee crises in modern history, with more than eight million people (over…

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    Crime Impacts of El Salvador’s Crackdown Policy

    Objective: To examine the impact of El Salvador’s unprecedented mass incarceration policy on crime. Methods: The identification strategy of this paper exploits…

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    From Collective Punishment to Constraints on Authority

    This Element critically examines the claim that United States economic sanctions on Venezuela constituted "collective punishment" of the Venezuelan population,…

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    Beneficiation vs. Knowledge-based: Dead ends and steppingstones to productive diversification

    The global resurgence of industrial policy has revived the appeal of downstream diversification (beneficiation) – adding value to raw materials – as a…

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    Public-Private Dialogs to Spur Export-led Growth: The Case of Productivity Taskforces in Namibia

    This Element examines the implementation of Namibia’s first Productivity Task Force (PTF) focused on the high-value fruit sector from 2021 to 2024.…

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    La Complejidad Económica de El Salvador: Usando proximidades tecnológicas para identificar oportunidades de diversificación productiva

    Después de una década de bajo crecimiento en comparación con sus pares latinoamericanos, El Salvador ha estado lidiando con desafíos interrelacionados:…

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    Diagnóstico de Crecimiento de El Salvador: Del fin de la violencia al desarrollo sostenible

    Tres décadas han pasado desde que los acuerdos de Chapultepec marcaron el fin de la guerra civil en El Salvador. El conflicto, que se prolongó por doce años y…

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    Growth Diagnostics and Competitiveness Study of the Manufacturing Sector in Tanzania

    The Tanzanian economy experienced a significant acceleration over two decades, growing at a compounded annual growth rate of 6% between 1998 and 2018. Within…

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    A Growth Diagnostic of Namibia: Binding Constraints to Inclusive and Sustainable Growth

    In the thirty years that have passed since independence, Namibia has been characterized by its overreliance on its mineral resource wealth, procyclicality of…

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Miguel Angel Santos

Economist specializing in economic development and complexity. Former Director of Applied Research at the Harvard Growth Lab (2014 – 2023), where he led teams working with governments in Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa. Since 2023, Dean of the School of Government and Public Transformation at Tecnologico de Monterrey.

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