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Date issued: 1月 2010
Author(s): Gandelman, Néstor;Gandelman, Eduardo;Castillo, Marco;Cárdenas, Juan Camilo;Bravo, David;Sethi, Rajiv;Sanhueza, Claudia;Soruco, Ximena;Ñopo, Hugo R.;Rossi, Máximo;Elías, Víctor;Elías, Julio;Gaviria, Alejandro;Chong, Alberto E.;Polanía, Sandra;Petrie, Ragan;Piani, Giorgina;Torero, Máximo;Ronconi, Lucas;Rothschild, Julie;Urzúa, Sergio;Candelo, Natalia;Moro, Andrea

This book presents a set of studies on contemporary discrimination in Latin America that takes advantage of these new tools by focusing on social interactions that range from cooperation, group…

Date issued: 1月 2010
Author(s): van Praag, Bernard M.S.;Gandelman, Néstor;Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada;Ham, Andrés;Lora, Eduardo;Tetaz, Martín;Medina, Carlos;Sanguinetti, Pablo;Cruces, Guillermo;Piani, Giorgina;Alcázar, Lorena;Powell, Andrew;Núñez, Jairo;Ferre, Zuleika;Andrade, Raúl;Robalino, Juan;Madrigal, Róger;Hall, Luis J.;Morales, Leonardo

A growing number of cities around the world have established systems for monitoring the quality of urban life. Many of those systems combine objective information with subjective opinions and cover a…

Date issued: 1月 2010
Author(s): Vegas, Emiliana;Santibáñez, Lucrecia

Early childhood development outcomes play an important role throughout a person's life, affecting one's income-earning capacity and productivity, longevity, health, and cognitive ability.…

Date issued: 1月 2010
Author(s): García-Huitrón, Manuel;Impavido, Gregorio;Lasagabaster, Esperanza

This book has three main objectives: (i) discusses the main implications for the functioning of mandatory defined contribution pensions of consumers' inability to make rational choices; (ii)…

Date issued: 12月 2009
Author(s): Banque Interaméricaine de Développement


Date issued: 12月 2009
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

El período que cubre el Informe MERCOSUR N° 14 (julio de 2008 - junio de 2009) estuvo marcado por la crisis internacional. La fase inflacionaria de dicha crisis -que se desarrolló entre agosto de…

Date issued: 12月 2009 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Cavallo, Eduardo A.;Noy, Ilan

Natural disasters are by no means new, yet the evolving understanding of their relevance to economic development and growth is still in its infancy. This paper summarizes the state of the economic…

Date issued: 12月 2009
Author(s): Armacost, Nicola;Magallon, Daniel;López de Llergo, Guadalupe;Sánchez, María Deni;Felix, Katleen

The goal of this market research was to determine the feasibility of promoting the use of remittances as a means to purchase clean energy. The project was designed to test the attractiveness to…

Date issued: 12月 2009 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Volpe Martincus, Christian;Estevadeordal, Antoni

This paper examines the impact of trade policy on production specialization patterns in ten Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay and…

Date issued: 12月 2009 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Volpe Martincus, Christian;Gómez, Sandra Milena

According to the economic theory and recent empirical evidence, improved market access through trade arrangements is likely to favor export diversification. In this paper, we assess whether this has…