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6月 2016
Increasing national saving requires everyone to pitch in, including the government. Traditionally, policies to boost public saving have focused on either raising taxes or cutting spending—or both.…
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6月 2016
Ultimately, Latin America’s low saving rate can be traced back to individual households throughout the region. Why do they—or do they not—save and how? Answering this question is not an easy task.…
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6月 2016
Saving rates are relatively low in Latin America and the Caribbean, as is productivity growth. Are these two facts related? Much of this book has argued that indeed, a relationship exists and that…
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6月 2016
This book argues that Latin America and the Caribbean suffers from two interrelated problems: saving is low, and those meager savings are used inefficiently. The two problems are connected and…
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6月 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…
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6月 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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6月 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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6月 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:
6月 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:
6月 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:
6月 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:
6月 2016
Generative AI enabled
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¿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:
6月 2016
Generative AI enabled
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:
6月 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:
6月 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:
6月 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:
6月 2016
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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:
6月 2016
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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:
6月 2016
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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:
6月 2016
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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:
6月 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:
6月 2016
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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…
Date issued:
6月 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:
6月 2016
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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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6月 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…