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Wage Shocks and Consumption Variability in Mexico during the 1990s
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Székely, Miguel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2001
This paper presents evidence on the relationship between economic shocks to relative male wages and changes in household consumption in Mexico during the 1990s, which is a period characterized by high volatility. In addition to performing this type of analysis for Mexico for the first time, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943675
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Automatic Stabilization and Fiscal Policy: Some Quantitative Implications for Latin America and the Caribbean
Espino, Emilio; Rozada, Martín González - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
This paper provides an estimation of the size of income and demand automatic stabilizers in a representative sample of … size of income and demand automatic stabilizers coefficients is much smaller than the size of these coefficients in Europe … income stabilization coefficient and two others affecting directly the demand stabilization coefficient. The main results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943765
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Is Entrepreneurship a Channel of Social Mobility in Latin America?
Castellani, Francesca; Lora, Eduardo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
income persistence coefficients estimated with pseudo-panel data for Colombia, Ecuador, and Uruguay indicate that … indicate the direction of such mobility, the estimates of income differentials between entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944085
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Poverty and the Labor Market in Venezuela: 1982-1995
Márquez, Gustavo; Álvarez, Carola - Inter-American Development Bank - 1996
The purpose of this paper is to describe the performance of the Venezuelan labor market in the period between 1982 and 1995, and to analyze its impact on the evolution of poverty. This period analyzed is a convulsed one, one within Venezuela that suffered from the consequences of both changes in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009357923
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Evaluación de los proyectos FOMIN: Funcionamiento de mercado: Promoción de la competencia y protección del consumidor Title: Evaluation of MIF Projects: Market Functioning: Promoti...
Inter-American Development Bank; Banco Interamericano …; … - 2003
El objetivo de la presente evaluación (MIF/GN-78-14) es evaluar un grupo de proyectos del FOMIN integrantes de la cartera de "Funcionamiento del Mercado" que incluye 12 proyectos por un monto de contribución total del FOMIN de US$7,6 millones. Los proyectos del FOMIN bajo análisis se...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010672613
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Improving Access to the U.S. Banking System Among Recent Latin American Immigrants
Bair, Sheila C. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2003
US banks and credit unions are determined to have Latin American immigrants as important and permanent members of their customer base. Community groups, government, and US business interests are aligning through the remittance market to the benefit of Latin American immigrants and their families.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009205937
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An Evaluation Approach Paper: Opportunities for the Majority Initiative Title: Parámetros para la Evaluación de la Iniciativa de Oportunidades para la Mayoría
Pires, Jose Claudio Linhares; Arráiz, Irani; Piza, Caio; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
The objectives of the evaluation are to assess Opportunities for the Majority (OMJ)'s relevance vis-à-vis its mandate, its effectiveness in achieving development goals, its efficiency in delivering products, and the sustainability of both projects and the "business model" supported by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010673569
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Fiscal Policy, Stabilization, and Growth: Prudence or Abstinence?
Werneck, Rogério L.F.; Irwin, Timothy; Sturzenegger, … - Inter-American Development Bank
Fiscal policy in Latin America has been guided primarily by short-term liquidity targets whose observance was taken as the main exponent of fiscal prudence, with attention focused almost exclusively on the levels of public debt and the cash deficit. Very little attention was paid to the effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772370
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Review of the Need for a General Capital Increase of the Ordinary Capital and Replenishment of the Fund for Special Operations: Progress and Next Steps
Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2009
Presented the first paper on review of the need for a general capital increase of the ordinary capital and replenishment of the fund for special operations.
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