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Date issued: 9月 2013
Author(s): Dumas, Víctor;Lafuente, Mariano;Parrado, Salvador

En este estudio se analiza el funcionamiento de las instituciones del Centro de Gobierno de Chile entre 2010 y 2013. En este período, el Ministerio Secretaría General de la Presidencia vio…

Date issued: 9月 2013
Author(s): Ruprah, Inder J.

This policy brief reviews whether the size of a country limits economic growth. Diseconomies of scale, indivisible fixed costs and geographic barriers represent intrinsic characteristics of small…

Date issued: 9月 2013
Author(s): Ruprah, Inder J.;Melgarejo, Karl Alexander

In this policy brief, we focus on the debates surrounding what has been called the "silent debt crisis" of the Caribbean. We discuss the level of debt at which the relation with economic…

Date issued: 8月 2013
Author(s): Giraldo Ayala, Andrea Marcela;Gómez, José Ramon

Con el objeto de proveer al gobierno colombiano de un marco sólido de conocimiento e información que le permita invertir en proyectos, planes y programas de Energía Sustentable y Biocombustibles, el…

Date issued: 8月 2013 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Cornick, Jorge

Productive development policies (PDPs), what used to be called industrial policies, are increasingly recognized as an essential part of the development toolkit, and the need for public-private…

Date issued: 8月 2013
Author(s): Dixon, John A.

This paper provides guidance to Bank staff on how to conduct an expanded, comprehensive economic cost-benefit analysis (CBA) in order to measure net benefits from a project taking both project and…

Date issued: 8月 2013
Author(s): Arce, Fernando;Powell, Andrew

The July 2013 surveys of expectations conducted by Central Banks with inflation targeting regimes indicate that growth expectations have fallen while average inflation expectations remained constant…

Date issued: 8月 2013 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Scartascini, Carlos;Ardanaz, Martín

According to an influential theoretical argument, presidential systems tend to present smaller governments because the separation between those who decide the size of the fiscal purse and those who…

Date issued: 8月 2013
Author(s): Bastos, Fabiano;Pineda, Emilio

We estimate the fiscal space of Brazilian States defined as the difference between a State's actual debt and the theoretical debt limit implied by the historical behavior of its policymakers. We…

Date issued: 8月 2013
Author(s): Varsano, Ricardo

Este artigo apresenta as razões que levaram os governos estaduais e federal a cooperarem na elaboração da Lei Kandir, descreve o processo de elaboração da lei, suas principais provisões e as…