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Date issued: Sep 2005
Author(s): Alston, Lee J.;Melo, Marcus André;Mueller, Bernardo;Pereira, Carlos

In this project, the authors analyze the budgetary process to determine who decides on public expenditures in Brazil. The focus is not so much on the actual fiscal outcomes that emerge from the…

Date issued: Sep 2005
Author(s): Abuelafia, Emmanuel;Berensztein, Sergio;Braun, Miguel;Di Gresia, Luciano

The budget process is increasingly considered key for reform efforts to improve fiscal outcomes. The authors embark on a political economy analysis of the budget process in Argentina, in the spirit…

Date issued: Sep 2005 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Beltrán, Arlette;Castro, Juan Francisco;Vásquez, Enrique;Yamada, Gustavo

Este documento fue comisionado por la Red de Reducción de la Pobreza y Protección Social del Diálogo Regional de Política para la 8a Reunión Hemisférica celebrada los días 24 y 25 de abril de 2005.…

Date issued: Sep 2005
Author(s): Gutiérrez M., Maria Isabel

Una presentación de los resultados preliminarios de una evaluación que tiene el objetivo de establecer el impacto temprano y la relación costo-beneficio de la intervención en términos de su…

Date issued: Sep 2005
Author(s): Beato, Paulina;Vives, Antonio

El objetivo de este artículo es caracterizar las diferentes modalidades de alianzas público-privadas (PPP) para el suministro de servicios de infraestructura y analizar sus implicaciones sobre los…

Date issued: Sep 2005
Author(s): Flôres Jr., Renato G.

The impact of the May 2004 enlargement is not, in overall terms, something to worry MERCOSUR decision makers and economic agents. However, this globally non-menacing picture raises, at a closer look…

Date issued: Sep 2005
Author(s): Moraes, Juan Andrés;Chasquetti, Daniel;Bergara, Mario

This paper explores the extent to which Uruguayan institutions (as interbranch relations, electoral rules, budgetary rules, etc.) and political actors (parties, factions, interest groups and…

Date issued: Sep 2005 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Armas, Adrián;Grippa, Francisco

This discusses the unique experience of Peru's Central Bank with inflation targeting in an economy characterized by a high degree of financial dollarization. The paper outlines how Peru has…

Date issued: Sep 2005 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Vargas H., Hernando

This paper examines Colombia's experience with an inflation-targeting monetary policy following the abandonment of exchange rate bands in 1999, and two episodes in 2003 and 2004 that deviated…

Date issued: Sep 2005 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Lehoucq, Fabrice;Negretto, Gabriel;Aparicio, Francisco Javier;Nacif, Benito;Benton, Allyson Lucinda

This paper uses a transaction-costs framework to link the policymaking process (PMP) and the outer features of public policies in Mexico. It shows how a highly secretive PMP, centralized around the…