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Morandé, Felipe - Inter-American Development Bank - 1996

Some analysts rank Chile as the only Latin American economy that qualifies as a 'take-off economy,' or development economy. In a sense, Chile's enduring success and proved insulation from the 'Tequila effect' are due to its high national savings. What has made Chile's savings so high? What were...

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Housing Tenure and Housing Demand in Colombia

Arbeláez, María Angélica; Steiner, Roberto; Becerra, … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

and credit is explained by demand for low-income housing. …

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Argentina's Distributional Failure: The Role of Integration and Public Policy

Gasparini, Leonardo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2003

This paper documents the income distribution changes experienced by Argentina during the last decades. Inequality … have shaped Argentina's income distribution: deep macroeconomic crisis and periods of openness and integration. The sizable … particular severity of the income distribution changes in Argentina. This paper was prepared for the Labor Markets and …

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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...

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Inequality and Mexico's Labor Market after Trade Reform

Bouillon, Cesar Patricio - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000

employment, and mean labor income by economic sector and education level. …

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Poverty and the Employment Problem in Argentina

Márquez, Gustavo; Morley, Samuel A. - Inter-American Development Bank - 1997

suffered a 25 percent reduction in per capita income, two bouts of hyperinflation and a sharp rise in poverty during the 1980s …

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New century, Old Disparities: Gender and Ethnic Earnings Gaps in Latin America and The Caribbean

Ñopo, Hugo R. - Inter-American Development Bank

This book presents a regional overview of gender and ethnic disparities in labor earnings during this last turn of the century. After this introduction, chapter 2 presents the methodology adopted by the book and the data sources employed. Chapter 3 then examines education in the region,...

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