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Date issued: 1월 1999 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Hausmann, Ricardo;Gavin, Michael;Pagés, Carmen;Stein, Ernesto H.

Financial turmoil is becoming a fact of life in Latin America. The 1990s have been characterized by enormous volatility in the magnitude and cost of capital flows. The correlation of capital swings…

Date issued: 1월 1999 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Hausmann, Ricardo;Székely, Miguel

In this paper, social mobility is measured by looking at the extent to which family background determines socioeconomic success. An index of social mobility for developing countries is proposed based…

Date issued: 1월 1999 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Stein, Ernesto H.;Streb, Jorge M.

This paper presents a rational political budget cycle model for an open economy, in which devaluations are delayed in the pre-election period so as to increase the electoral chances of the party in…

Date issued: 12월 1998
Author(s): Plant, Roger

Este ensayo es el primero de una serie de estudios sobre la pobreza y las estrategias de reducción de la pobreza indígena que ofrece un insumo importante al documento formal de la estrategia del BID…

Date issued: 12월 1998
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

IDB America reports on economic and social development trends in Latin America and the Caribbean and on the activities of the IDB. It is published 10 times annually in Spanish and English.

Date issued: 12월 1998
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

BID América cubre las tendencias del desarrollo económico y social de América Latina y el Caribe y las actividades del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo. Se publica 10 veces al año en castellano e…

Date issued: 12월 1998 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Attanasio, Orazio P.;Székely, Miguel

Following the 1994 financial crisis, the rate of saving of the Mexican economy fell from 21.7 percent to 19.8 percent of GDP. The decline was associated with a reduction in the rate of external…

Date issued: 12월 1998
Author(s): Deutsch, Ruthanne

Good practices in targeting, as highlighted here, with an additional effort to go beyond the letter of the law in the identification of project beneficiaries. Effective and efficient targeting…

Date issued: 12월 1998
Author(s): Schiefelbein, Ernesto;Wolff, Laurence;Schiefelbein, Paulina

This paper provides an alternative approach to measuring the cost-effectiveness of educational interventions. The authors devised a questionnaire and gave it to ten international experts, mainly…

Date issued: 12월 1998
Author(s): Lemay, Michele H.

This document presents a coastal and marine resources management strategy for the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). The strategy provides new directions for Bank activities which significantly…