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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 …

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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 …

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Why Don't We Tax the Rich? Inequality, Legislative Malapportionment, and Personal Income Taxation around the World

Scartascini, Carlos G.; Ardanaz, Martín - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

This paper argues that the details of political institutions help explain the low levels of personal income taxation … 1990 and 2007, this paper finds that i) countries with historically more unequal distributions of wealth and income … lower shares of personal income taxes in GDP. present higher levels of legislative malapportionment, and ii) higher levels …

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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...

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2013 Latin American and Caribbean Macroeconomic Report: Rethinking Reforms: How Latin America and the Caribbean Can Escape Suppressed World Growth

Powell, Andrew - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013

Global growth projections have waned since last year and growth may be suppressed below potential for several years to come. Lower global growth will, all things being equal, imply lower growth in Latin America and the Caribbean. At the same time, clear limits to the potential use of monetary...

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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.

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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...

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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...

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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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Equalizing Opportunities for Human Development (in One Country)

Roemer, John E. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000

This study develops a framework to investigate the optimal allocation of a country's fiscal resources to help equalize opportunities for human development. The author argues that the proper role for policy is the pursuit of equality of opportunities as opposed to equality of outcomes. Because...

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