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Jun 2016
Why should people -and economies- save? The typical answer usually focuses on the need to protect against future shocks, to smooth consumption during hard times, in short, to save for the proverbial…
Date issued:
Jun 2016
Why should people--and economies-- save? The typical answer usually focuses on the need to protect against future shocks, to smooth consumption during hard times, in short, to save for the proverbial…
Date issued:
Jun 2016
¿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
Por que as pessoas--e os países--devem poupar? A resposta típica geralmente reside na necessidade de se proteger contra choques futuros, equilibrar o consumo nas horas difíceis, em suma, poupar para…
Date issued:
Jun 2016
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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
Generative AI enabled
Generative AI enabled
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
Generative AI enabled
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
This evaluation expands a previous evaluation of the Office of Evaluation and Oversight of the BRT project results with respect to their objectives of improving mobility and access for the poor. It…
Date issued:
Jun 2016
Este análisis amplía una evaluación anterior de la Oficina de Evaluación y Supervisión de los resultados de los proyectos de BRT con respecto a sus objetivos de mejorar la movilidad y el acceso para…
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Jun 2016
INTAL Connection informs on integration and trade in Latin America and the Caribbean and disseminate IADB activities on this topics.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
Date issued:
Jun 2016
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In this paper, we estimate the effects of transit systems that substantiallystreamline administrative processing of trade flows. In so doing, we use a
unique dataset that consists of the…
unique dataset that consists of the…
Date issued:
Jun 2016
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Generative AI enabled
El presente trabajo surge como una respuesta al problema de los sobrecostos en los proyectos de infraestructura que financia el BID, y busca aportar al abordaje técnicamente consistente de los costos…
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Jun 2016
This paper examines three intrinsic underlying variables affecting the provision of rural electricity services: household income, household location and a country's relative wealth in terms of…
Date issued:
Jun 2016
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Generative AI enabled
In this paper, we estimate the effects of custom-related delays on firms'exports. In so doing, we use a unique dataset that consists of the universe
of Uruguay's export transactions…
of Uruguay's export transactions…
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Jun 2016
The April 2016 surveys of expectations conducted by Central Banks with inflation targeting regimes indicate that simple average growth expectations for 2016 for the eight countries covered by REVELA…
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Jun 2016
This technical note examines the impact of information and communication technology (ICT) and research and development (R&D) investment on innovation and productivity in Chilean firms, in…
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Jun 2016
How to build a convergence within the diversity of integrationist experiences? How can global efforts converge with regional and national realities through a glocal (global + local) governance that…
Date issued:
Jun 2016
¿Cómo construir una convergencia en la diversidad de las experiencias integracionistas? ¿Cómo pueden confluir esfuerzos globales con realidades regionales y nacionales a través de una gobernanza…