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This paper examines the effect of temporary and permanent migration on household expenditures and on asset/durables ownership. Using household survey data from Moldova, this paper relies on the matching approach for identification. It is shown that temporary migrant households have additional...
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Revitalizing the Jamaican Economy: Policies for Sustained Growth aims to improve our understanding of the constraints to social and economic development in Jamaica. It also proposes practical solutions to overcome some of those problems. This book is a collection of studies commissioned by the...
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increases productivity by 2 percent and output by 3 percent as it improves the allocation of resources across firms and sectors …
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Conventional wisdom claims that fixed exchange rates provide more fiscal discipline than do flexible rates, but the recent experiences in Europe, the record of Sub-Saharan countries in the 1980s, and the history of stabilization attempts in Latin America cast empirical doubts on this wisdom. To...
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This is the presentation of the study "Competitiveness and Growth in Latin America: Country Case: El Salvador". The study finds that phenomena associated with migration are key in understanding slow growth in El Salvador. Migration has substantially reduced the growth of labor force....
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This country program evaluation (CPE) covers the 2007-2011 period. This evaluation pays particular attention to the relevance of the IDB's program in relation to Mexico's fundamental challenges, as well as to the Bank's strategy developed during the period in an effort to become more relevant in...
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talented people, which in turn reduces productivity and economic growth. Less economic growth, in turn, decreases job …
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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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social costs, with a particular focus on Chile. The study concludes that the problem lies in the low productivity of the … manufacturing and service sectors. Given the increasing economic weight of the services sector in the region, its low productivity … has become an obstacle to aggregate productivity. The study suggests that an increase in productivity in the service …
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This presentation aims to understand what is behind aggregate productivity and how it grows, expanding the scope beyond … productivity (TFP) to reflect market inefficiencies. The authors show that improving the efficiency of markets is another route … towards higher productivity and income growth, and that there is a need to look at what is happening at all sectors of the …
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