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Date issued: 7月 2012
Author(s): Marcel, Mario;Cabezas, Mabel;Piedrabuena, Bernardita

El presente resumen de políticas realiza una revisión sistemática de la metodología de estimación del Balance Estructural (BE) en Chile. Esta revisión no sólo recapitula y evalúa la justificación de…

Date issued: 7月 2012 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Bukstein, Daniel;Gandelman, Néstor

This paper follows an income-based, time-dependence approach to measure social mobility in Uruguay between 1982 and 2010. The paper finds that social mobility in Uruguay is considerable and reports…

Date issued: 7月 2012 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Vélez-Grajales, Viviana;Vélez-Grajales, Roberto

This paper uses the Mexican Social Mobility Survey 2006 to analyze intergenerational social mobility as it relates to entrepreneurial activity. First, the paper analyzes whether entrepreneurs…

Date issued: 7月 2012
Author(s): Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés

Este informe representa un primer acercamiento al problema en América Latina, donde no existen estudios comparativos sobre la viabilidad y el impacto económico de los PCT. El objetivo es analizar el…

Date issued: 7月 2012 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Ordeñana, Xavier;Villa, Ramón

Does entrepreneurship contribute to improving social mobility in Ecuador? This paper constructs a pseudo-panel to analyze the dynamic effect of entrepreneurship on Ecuadorian household incomes during…

Date issued: 7月 2012 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Ulloa, Alfie;Wagner, Rodrigo

Free Trade Agreements (FTA) attract significant interest, but after these treaties are signed not all exporters use them. We provide a model of heterogeneous utilization, also developing a novel…

Date issued: 7月 2012 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Schady, Norbert

Iron deficiency anemia is the most prevalent nutritional deficiency in the world, affecting more than 2 billion people in developing countries. We show that a modest cash transfer substantially…

Date issued: 7月 2012
Author(s): Armendáriz, Edna;De León, Wendy;López de Mesa, Paloma

Este documento aplica el marco analítico de diagnóstico de crecimiento para identificar las restricciones más activas que impiden un crecimiento económicomás acelerado en Guatemala y su convergencia…

Date issued: 7月 2012
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

The 2012 second quarter edition of the Quarterly Business Review (QBR) provides management with a status of the Bank's performance. The QBR reports on outputs, lending program priorities and…

Date issued: 7月 2012
Author(s): Alfonso, Mariana;Benavides, Martín

This note summarizes, as told from their personal experiences, the transition process of young people, mostly non-teachers, recruited by Enseña Perú to serve as teachers for a period of two years in…