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Date issued: Apr 2006
Author(s): Artana, Daniel;Auguste, Sebastián;Bour, Juan Luis;Navajas, Fernando;Panadeiros, Monica;Guzmán, Rolando M.

El objetivo de este estudio es realizar una evaluación del gasto público en República Dominicana a fin de identificar los aspectos críticos y formular medidas concretas de reforma que permitan…

Date issued: Apr 2006
Author(s): Bolaños Zamora, Rodrigo;Delgado Quesada, Félix

El presente estudio sobre Honduras forma parte del proyecto "Creación de capital social por medio de la reforma fiscal" desarrollado por el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo con el…

Date issued: Mar 2006
Author(s): Crawley, Andrew;Vodusek, Ziga;Giordano, Paolo;Sobral de Elía, Mariana;Estevadeordal, Antoni;Shearer, Matthew;Vignoles, Christopher;Suominen, Kati

This report ( a special issue of the Periodic Note on Integration and Trade in the Americas) devotes great attention to particular challenges that confront the EU and LAC, as well as the…

Date issued: Mar 2006
Author(s): Crawley, Andrew;Vodusek, Ziga;Giordano, Paolo;Sobral de Elía, Mariana;Estevadeordal, Antoni;Shearer, Matthew;Vignoles, Christopher;Suominen, Kati

En el presente informe (número especial de la Nota Periódica sobre Integración y Comercio en las Américas) el interés se ha centrado en los desafíos específicos que enfrentan la Unión Europea y…

Date issued: Mar 2006 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Jaimovich, Dany;Panizza, Ugo

Commonly used datasets on the level of public debt provide incomplete country and period coverage. This paper presents a new dataset that includes complete series of central government debt for 89…

Date issued: Mar 2006 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Panizza, Ugo;Borensztein, Eduardo;Eichengreen, Barry

Spreads on sovereign bonds are at an all-time low, at least since the current era of emerging economy bond markets began in the 1990s. This paper examines the current state of the international and…

Date issued: Mar 2006
Author(s): Sabatini, Francisco

El presente informe expone las características y tendencias de la segregación residencial en las ciudades de América Latina, sus causas y consecuencias, el estado de la investigación en este campo, y…

Date issued: Mar 2006
Author(s): Sabatini, Francisco

The cities offer Latin America and the Caribbean their best opportunity for economic and social development. Aside from concentrating on more than two thirds of the population, it is estimated that…

Date issued: Mar 2006 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Jaimovich, Dany;Panizza, Ugo;Campos, Camil F.S.

This paper shows that budget deficits account for a relatively small fraction of debt growth and that stock-flow reconciliation, which is often considered a residual entity, is one of the key…

Date issued: Mar 2006 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Chong, Alberto E.

Based on research in linguistics and psychology I use language speech as a reflection of acculturation. I use individual and city-level data from the Lake Ontario area in Canada and study the…