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Mar 2006
This is the last version available of "Diasporas, Philanthropy and Hometown Associations: The Central American Experience". This paper looks at the experience of Hometown Associations (HTAs…
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Mar 2006
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This paper shows that budget deficits account for a relatively small fraction of debt growth and that stock-flow reconciliation, which is often considered a residual entity, is one of the key…
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Mar 2006
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Based on research in linguistics and psychology I use language speech as a reflection of acculturation. I use individual and city-level data from the Lake Ontario area in Canada and study the…
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Mar 2006
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El presente documento de discusión (Issues Paper) no pretende abracar todos los elementos que se abordarán en la Nota Temática, sino que se limita a identificar de manera preliminar algunos temas de…
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Mar 2006
El objetivo de este documento es informar al personal del Banco, así como a otros interesados sobre los últimos desarrollos en integración y comercio en los países del Hemisferio Occidental, y, entre…
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Mar 2006
Esta presentación fue comisionada por la Red de Educación del Diálogo Regional de Política para la Reunión Subregional de Centroamérica celebrada los días 16 y 17 de marzo de 2006 en República…
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Mar 2006
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Critics of globalization claim that foreign ownership of privatized firms is linked to negative post-privatization labor outcomes, such as more firing and less hiring. This paper uses new firm-level…
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Mar 2006
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The aim of this paper is to provide empirical evidence on the link between foreign aid and income inequality for the period 1973-2002. Since simple cross-country regressions cannot be taken as true…
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Mar 2006
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Since efforts by industrial countries to increase the amount of foreign aid they provide have been on the rise recently, it is important to understand the determinants involved. This paper examines…
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Mar 2006
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This paper uses a difference-in-difference methodology similar to the one originally proposed by Rajan and Zingales (1998) to test whether defaulting hurts the more export-oriented industries. Strong…