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Beyond Facts: Understanding Quality of Life Title: Calidad de vida: Más allá de los hechos

Scartascini, Carlos G.; Duryea, Suzanne; Powell, Andrew; … - Inter-American Development Bank

Traditionally, the concept of quality of life has been viewed through objective indicators. Beyond Facts looks at quality of life through a new lens, namely, the perceptions of millions of Latin Americans. Using an enhanced version of the recently created Gallup World Poll that incorporates...

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The Employment Problem in Latin America: Perceptions and Stylized Facts

Lora, Eduardo; Márquez, Gustavo - Inter-American Development Bank - 1998

conditions in the labor markets of the region. …

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A Decade of Development Thinking

Lora, Eduardo; Pagés-Serra, Carmen; Panizza, Ugo; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2004

The Research Department of the IDB (RES) performs innovative, comparative research on the development issues of greatest concern to the region today. It generates a wide variety of products based on this research and disseminates them to three principal audiences: the Bank, policymakers and the...

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Beyond Facts: Understanding Quality of Life Title: Calidad de vida: Más allá de los hechos

Pagés-Serra, Carmen; Scartascini, Carlos; Funaro, Rita; … - Inter-American Development Bank

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Living with Debt: How to Limit the Risks of Sovereign Finance Title: Vivir con deuda: Cómo contener los riesgos del endeudamiento público Title: Viver com dívida: Como limitar os r...

Powell, Andrew; Izquierdo, Alejandro; Yeyati, Eduardo Levy - Inter-American Development Bank

The 2007 Report on Economic and Social Progress in Latin America analyzes the nature and evolution of sovereign debt in Latin America and discusses the policies that can be followed by countries and international financial institutions (IFIs) to reduce the vulnerabilities associated with it....

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The State of State Reform in Latin America

Galindo, Arturo José; Scartascini, Carlos G.; Payne, … - Inter-American Development Bank

Latin America suffered a profound state crisis in the 1980s, which prompted not only the wave of macroeconomic and deregulation reforms known as the Washington Consensus, but also a wide variety of institutional or 'second generation' reforms. 'The State of State Reform in Latin America' reviews...

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Facing Up to Inequality in Latin America

Gavin, Michael; Hausmann, Ricardo; Lora, Eduardo; … - Inter-American Development Bank

work, improving education, and saving for the future. This Report assembles the available evidence on inequality in order …

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Public Debt and Social Expenditure: Friends or Foes?

Lora, Eduardo; Olivera, Mauricio - Inter-American Development Bank - 2006

This paper assesses the effects of total public debt (external and domestic) on social expenditure worldwide and in Latin America using an unbalanced panel of around 50 countries for the period 1985-2003. The most robust and important finding is that higher debt ratios do reduce social...

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Structural Reforms in Latin America: What Has Been Reformed and How to Measure It

Lora, Eduardo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2001

policies index that summarizes the status of progress in policies in the trade, financial, tax, privatization, and labor areas …

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Employment and Taxes in Latin America: An Empirical Study of the Effects of Payroll, Corporate Income and Value-Added Taxes on Labor Outcomes

Lora, Eduardo; Fajardo, Johanna - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

of labor market outcomes such as employment, unemployment, informality, and wages. Using national-level data on labor … depend on several aspects of labor and tax institutions. Payroll taxes reduce employment and increase labor costs when their … benefits are not valued by workers, but otherwise increase labor participation and do not raise labor costs. Value-added taxes …

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