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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/10010943424
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Portrait of the Poor: An Assets-Based Approach
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Székely, Miguel; Gray-Molina, George - Inter-American Development Bank
caught in a vicious circle. They lack sufficient access to education, credit and other means to generate income, so they earn … lower wages, which in turn prevents them from accumulating the assets they need to increase future income. The authors … analyze the ownership and use of income-generating assets, as well as access to them. Where there are market imperfections …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943569
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The Impact of Public and Private Job Training in Colombia
Medina, Carlos; Núñez, Jairo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2005
In this working paper, the authors present various matching estimators of the impact on earnings for individuals who attended public and private job training programs in Colombia, namely the National Learning Service (SENA). The authors estimate propensity scores by controlling for the wide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944517
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A Dynamic Analysis of Household Decision-Making in Urban Colombia, 1976-1998: Changes in Household Structure, Human Capital and its Returns, and Female Labor Force Participation
Torres, Fabio Sánchez; Núñez, Jairo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002
. With such information a database of more than 6 million observations (workers, parents, children, etc.) was constructed …. The research results show that the number of children of the younger parents has drastically decreased. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944586
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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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Portrait of the Poor: An Assets-Based Approach
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Székely, Miguel; Gray-Molina, George - Inter-American Development Bank
caught in a vicious circle. They lack sufficient access to education, credit and other means to generate income, so they earn … lower wages, which in turn prevents them from accumulating the assets they need to increase future income. The authors … analyze the ownership and use of income-generating assets, as well as access to them. Where there are market imperfections …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772491