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Date issued: Aug 2013 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Vegas, Emiliana;Ganimian, Alejandro

La década pasada ha sido testigo del surgimiento de un gran número de rigurosas evaluaciones de impacto de políticas docentes. En este trabajo se revisa la teoría económica y la evidencia empírica…

Date issued: Jul 2013
Author(s): Le Fort V., Guillermo

This paper presents an estimation of the structural fiscal balance for Trinidad and Tobago, and discusses the current situation of the country in meeting the preconditions for the establishment of a…

Date issued: Jul 2013
Author(s): Levy, Paulo

Fiscal policy has been at the center of Brazil's economic dynamics and performance for more than 30 years. In this line, the approval and implementation of a Fiscal Responsibility Law in 2000…

Date issued: Jul 2013
Author(s): Le Fort V., Guillermo

This paper presents a design and simulation of a structural fiscal policy in Uruguay. The design includes the derivation of a metric for the structural balance that is most adequate for the country…

Date issued: Jul 2013
Author(s): Esquivel, Gerardo;Peralta, Williams

This paper analyzes the convenience of adopting a structural fiscal balance rule in Mexico, and whether the necessary conditions exist in the country for the adoption of such a rule. Adjustments are…

Date issued: Jul 2013 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Tommasi, Mariano;Scartascini, Carlos;Caruso, Germán

The understanding of the economic effect of formal institutional rules has progressed substantially in recent decades. These formal analyses have tended to take for granted that institutional arenas…

Date issued: Jul 2013
Author(s): Abuelafia, Emmanuel;Thomas, Desmond;Leon, Javier;Schmid, Juan Pedro;Kamau, Musheer O.;Mercer-Blackman, Valerie

The Caribbean Region Quarterly Bulletin provides economic conjunctural and structural information about this particular region. This issue highlights the high debt ratios and fiscal concerns that…

Date issued: Jul 2013 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Barham, Tania;Macours, Karen;Maluccio, John A.

Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs have become the anti-poverty program of choice in many developing countries. Numerous evaluations, often based on rigorous experimental designs, leave little…

Date issued: Jul 2013
Author(s): Benchaita, Tayeb

The study encompasses background information on the relevant processing and "value chains" in the petrochemical industry within LAC, the current GHG emission control technologies available…

Date issued: Jul 2013
Author(s): Giuliani, Elisa;Maffioli, Alessandro;Pacheco, Manuel;Pietrobelli, Carlo;Stucchi, Rodolfo

Do the programs that aim to promote and develop industry clusters (also known as Cluster Development Programs) work? Do they have an impact on enterprise development? This paper offers an insight…