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8月 2014
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Inflation targeting has been adopted in a set of emerging economies, including eight countries in Latin America. The success of this regime may depend critically on the credibility of the target and…
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8月 2014
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The literature has identified that countries with higher levels of openness tend to present a larger government sector as a way to reduce the risks to the economy that openness entails. This paper…
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8月 2014
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The 2007-2008 global financial crisis and the subsequent anemic recovery have rekindled academic interest in quantifying the impact of uncertainty on macroeconomic dynamics. This paper studies the…
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8月 2014
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This paper examines the effectiveness of carbon taxes on macroeconomic performance when manufacturing firms have the opportunity to change their scale of operation and degree of formality. The…
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8月 2014
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This paper uses joint scaling methods and similar items from three large-scale surveys to place voters, parties and politicians from different Latin American countries on a common ideological space…
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8月 2014
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Many countries in Latin America and the Caribbean are interested in diversifying their energy sources for energy security and in contributing to the reduction of greenhouse gases. Non-traditional…
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8月 2014
The Inter-American Development Bank, in the context of its integration mandate in the region, has been working and supporting development actions in border areas and transboundary cooperation and…
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8月 2014
El presente número de la Revista Integración & Comercio incluye una serie de contribuciones interesantes que exploran los desafíos y oportunidades de mejora en materia de facilitación, seguridad…
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8月 2014
About 29 percent of teenagers are bullied at school in the Caribbean. Victims of bullying are more lonely, sleep less, and have fewer friends than do their nonbullied peers. Although victims of…
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8月 2014
This paper analyzes and compares the determinants of innovation in the service industry and its impact on labor productivity at the firm level in three countries of Latin America (Chile, Colombia,…
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8月 2014
This paper uses administrative data from projects for which an application was made to CORFO's (Chile's main development agency) Seed Capital Program (SCP) during the 2008-12 period. This…
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8月 2014
The June 2014 surveys of expectations conducted by Central Banks with inflation targeting regimes indicate that average growth expectations for 2014 have fallen from 3.6% to 3.4% while inflation…
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8月 2014
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Gains from government crime-reducing programs are not always visible to the average citizen. The media overexpose crime events, but the absence of crime rarely makes the news, increasing the risk…
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8月 2014
In Latin America, clientelism pervades civil services; bureaucrats entrusted with critical areas of national life are often hired more for their political value than professional competence. This…
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8月 2014
En América Latina, el clientelismo está muy extendido en la administración pública;los burócratas encargados de los aspectos críticos de la vida nacional a menudo son contratados más por su valor…
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8月 2014
En el presente estudio se caracterizan y analizan los principales indicadores de dinámica empresarial (nacimientos, muerte y supervivencia de empresas) en Argentina en el período 1996-2011, evaluando…
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8月 2014
The Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region has experienced dramatic gains in health and life expectancy in the past century. Yet hundreds of millions of people in the region are still at risk of…
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8月 2014
Are output changes and the unemployment rate related in Trinidad and Tobago? According to the economic theory known as Okun's Law, the two variables should be negatively correlated, and for the…
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8月 2014
El rápido crecimiento económico de Panamá de los últimos años se ha basado en la acumulación de factores y no en el crecimiento de la productividad. Si bien se han registrado avances relevantes en el…
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8月 2014
Para lograr la meta de crecer con más inclusión social, un eje central de las políticas públicas en Paraguay debe ser la creación de mejores empleos (productivos y con acceso al seguro social), ya…
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8月 2014
La creación de mejores empleos (productivos y con acceso a la seguridad social) debe ser un eje central de las políticas públicas en Honduras para lograr la meta de crecer con más inclusión social.…
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8月 2014
This publication of the Series on Energy Innovation explains geothermal energy, which is the energy stored in the Earth's crust. The discussion covers the potential use of this sustainable and…
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8月 2014
Esta publicación de la Serie de Innovación Energética trata sobre la energía geotérmica, que es la energía almacenada en la corteza terrestre. La discusión cubre tanto el uso potencial de esta fuente…
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7月 2014
En el 2012, ocho países de América Latina (Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, México, Perú y Uruguay) participaron en el Programa para la Evaluación Internacional de Alumnos (PISA, por…
Date issued:
7月 2014
En el 2012, ocho países de América Latina (Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, México, Perú y Uruguay) participaron en el Programa para la Evaluación Internacional de Alumnos (PISA, por…