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VAT Collection and Social Security Contributions: Is There a Link?
Antón-Sarabia, Arturo; Hernández, Fausto - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
Mexican public finances are weak; national tax collection as a percentage of GDP is among the lowest in the world. On the other hand, expenditure needs are enormous. There have been several attempts to reform our tax system but they have not been successful due to different factors such as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010653171
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Labor Market Impacts of Non-Contributory Pensions: The Case of Argentina's Moratorium
Bosch, Mariano; Guajardo, Jarret - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
Argentina had traditionally enjoyed one of the highest elderly coverage rates in Latin America. However, since the mid-1990s coverage rates started a steady decline, especially for low income workers. In response, the Argentine government implemented a series of sweeping reforms in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010653684
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Manna from Heaven: The Impact of Nonrenewable Resource Revenues on Other Revenues of Resource Exporters in Latin America and the Caribbean
Ossowski, Rolando; Gonzáles-Castillo, Alberto - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
policy implications. Especially for resource exporters with fiscal vulnerabilities to shocks and sustainability issues …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010655037
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The Cyclical Characteristics of Universal Social Insurance
Hemming, Richard - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
This paper examines how a universal social insurance program proposed for Mexico can respond to cyclical variations in revenue while remaining selffinancing. More specifically, it discusses the issues involved in setting up a stabilization fund that can accumulate surpluses when revenue is...
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Melhores aposentadorias, melhores trabalhos : Em direção à cobertura universal na América Latina e no Caribe Title: Mejores pensiones mejores trabajos: Hacia la cobertura universal...
Bosch, Mariano; Pages, Carmen; Melguizo, Ángel - Inter-American Development Bank
, new problems appear that economic policymakers must address. How to provide adequate pensions for the elderly is one such … only in the lack of coverage, but also in the low level of benefits, even of contributory pensions. It argues that to … design public policies for pensions, it is essential to understand the complex web of interactions between employers and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943355
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Shielding the Poor: Social Protection in the Developing World
Phillips, Katherin Ross; Gertler, Paul; Smeeding, Timothy M. - Inter-American Development Bank
Shielding the Poor presents a group of studies on social protection in the developing world from leading researchers. These studies address the issue of vulnerability of the poor to adverse shocks and propose policies to increase their protection and coping capacity. The studies emphasize the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943407
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The Impact of Colombia's Pension and Health Insurance Systems on Informality
Calderón, Valentina; Marinescu, Ioana - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
to both health insurance and pensions for independent workers using a difference-in-differences strategy. Second, this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009492946
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The Political Economy of Productivity. The Case of Chile
Aninat, Cristobal; Benavente, Jose Miguel; Briones, Ignacio - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
This paper analyzes the political economy of productivity-related policymaking in Chile following a political transaction cost model (Spiller and Tommasi, 2003; Murillo et al., 2008). The main findings indicate that i) the Chilean policymaking process (PMP) was successful in the 1990s in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008478857
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Shielding the Poor: Social Protection in the Developing World
Phillips, Katherin Ross; Gertler, Paul; Smeeding, Timothy M. - Inter-American Development Bank
Shielding the Poor presents a group of studies on social protection in the developing world from leading researchers. These studies address the issue of vulnerability of the poor to adverse shocks and propose policies to increase their protection and coping capacity. The studies emphasize the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772355
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The Impact of Colombia's Pension and Health Insurance Systems on Informality
Calderón, Valentina; Marinescu, Ioana - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
to both health insurance and pensions for independent workers using a difference-in-differences strategy. Second, this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010655326