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Date issued: jan 2003 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Ureta, Manuelita;Filgueira, Carlos;Menezes-Filho, Naercio Aquino;Duryea, Suzanne;Obuchi, Richard;Andersen, Lykke E.;Filgueira, Fernando;Bruni Celli, Josefina;Flórez, Carmen Elisa;Núñez, Jairo;Fuentes, Alvaro;Cox Edwards, Alejandra

This book uses micro-level data for 18 Latin American countries to examine the choices adolescents make in three areas of behavior: their time allocation toward school and work, their sexual behavior…

Date issued: jan 2003 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Attanasio, Orazio P.;Székely, Miguel;Behrman, Jere R.;Duryea, Suzanne

This book breaks away from the exclusively macroeconomic focus of development studies to bring the spotlight to the place where decisions are made: households. Complementing this microeconomic view…

Date issued: jan 2003 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Aldaz-Carroll, Enrique;Birdsall, Nancy;Castañeda, Tarsicio;Brundtland, Gro Harlem;Sen, Amartya;Urrutia, Miguel;Myers, Robert G.;Morán, Ricardo

Escaping the Poverty Trap proposes early childhood investment policies that could decisively change the prospects for the next generation of the region's poor. Contributors include Nobel…

Date issued: jan 2003 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Ramírez, Juan Carlos;Ventura-Dias, Vivianne;Bárcena, Alicia;Lahera, Eugenio

In this book, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean draws upon the Latin American and Caribbean region's experience in order to formulate a historical and…

Date issued: jan 2003
Author(s): Bair, Sheila C.

US banks and credit unions are determined to have Latin American immigrants as important and permanent members of their customer base. Community groups, government, and US business interests are…

Date issued: jan 2003 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Galindo, Arturo;Micco, Alejandro;Serra, César Manuel

Institutional and legal differences between countries increase entry costs and reduce the ability of banks to expand abroad. We use bilateral foreign banking data for 176 countries to estimate a…

Date issued: jan 2003 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Calderón, César;Chong, Alberto E.;Stein, Ernesto H.

Some key criteria in the optimal currency area literature are that countries should join a currency union if they have closer international trade links and more symmetric business cycles. However,…

Date issued: jan 2003 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Levy Yeyati, Eduardo;Panizza, Ugo;Stein, Ernesto H.

In this paper, we examine how the business and interest rate cycles in developed countries affect FDI to developing countries. After aggregating flows into three big source areas (the U.S., Europe…

Date issued: jan 2003 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Masci, Pietro;Utsumi, Makoto;Trigo Loubière, Jacques;Okubo, Yoshio;Sato, Takafumi;De Krivoy, Ruth;Fukao, Mitsuhiro;Martínez Peria, María Soledad;Schmukler, Sergio;Chicoma, José;Demaestri, Edgardo C.;Iannariello, María Pia;Barnhill Jr., Theodore M.;Papapanagiotou, Panagiotis;Rietti Souto, Marco;Posen, Adam S.;Zahler, Roberto

This book looks at the key issues and lessons that policymakers must consider in designing an adequate framework for dealing with financial crises. These include structural problems and their causes…

Date issued: jan 2003 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Goldstein Rossotto, Karen;Peterson, Robert J.;Masci, Pietro;Giorgio, Luis Alberto;García, Valeriano F.;West, Derek;Lee, Ruben;Agatiello, Osvaldo R.;Hook, Andrew;Dowers, Kenroy;Sotomayor, Ivan;Gomez-Acebo, Felipe;Corcoran, Andrea M.;Chandler-Crichlow, Catherine;Lubrano, Mike;Kuserk, Gregory J.;Wittich, Georg;Korcsmaros, Kinga;Aggarwal, Reena;Wuertz, Karen K.;Takacs, Hannes;Vives, Antonio;Karmel, Roberta S.;Hobson, Ronald B.;Tafara, Ethiopis;Del Valle, Clemente

This book analyzes the status of the markets in Latin America and identifies the technical, political, and financial challenges to building vibrant capital markets and increasing the efficiency…