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Date issued:
jun 2016
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Why should people--and economies--save? The typical answer usually focuses on the need to protect against future shocks, to smooth consumptionduring hard times, in short, to save for the proverbial…
Date issued:
jun 2016
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Generative AI enabled
¿Por qué deberían ahorrar las personas--y las economías? La respuesta típica suele centrarse en la necesidad de protegerse ante shocks en el futuro y moderar el consumo durante los tiempos difíciles…
Date issued:
jun 2016
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Generative AI enabled
Por que as pessoas --e os países-- devem poupar? A resposta típica geralmente reside na necessidade de se proteger contra choques futuros, de equilibrar o consumo nas horas difíceis; em suma, de…
Date issued:
jun 2016
A moniker often invoked to describe the Caribbean is: "high debt, low growth." It was never completely true. Today it may have become so. The tourism countries, Jamaica, Barbados, and The…
Date issued:
jun 2016
As part of its 2015-2016 annual work plan, the Office of Evaluation and Oversight (OVE) prepared the Bank's country program evaluation (CPE) with Argentina for the 2009-2015 period. This CPE is…
Date issued:
jun 2016
La oficina de Evaluación y Supervisión (OVE) preparó la Evaluación del Programa de País (CPE) con Argentina para el periodo 2009-2015. Este CPE será la tercera evaluación independiente del programa…
Date issued:
jun 2016
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Generative AI enabled
Security concerns in a context of increasingly segmented supply chains haveled to stricter border control measures, which may potentially negatively
affect international trade. Customs around…
affect international trade. Customs around…
Date issued:
jun 2016
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Generative AI enabled
Firms selling products abroad usually have to interact with several borderagencies that develop multiple trade regulations and oversee their
compliance. These regulations establish the…
compliance. These regulations establish the…
Date issued:
jun 2016
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Generative AI enabled
In this paper, we examine an innovative postal export regime that involvesboth a streamlining of export procedures and provision of intermediation
services to investigate how firms' react…
services to investigate how firms' react…
Date issued:
jun 2016
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Generative AI enabled
We examine transaction-level Peruvian import data to show that firms are subject to significant costs of port-of-entry delays. At the transaction level, we observe the time it takes a shipment to…