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When It Comes to Container Port Efficiency, Are All Developing Regions Equal?
Serebrisky, Tomas; Suárez-Alemán, Ancor; Sarriera, … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2015
This paper develops a port productivity and efficiency analysis of all developing regions between 2000 and 2010, using both parametric and nonparametric approaches. From a unique dataset -our sample covers 70 developing countries, 203 ports, and 1,750 data points-, we carry out an analysis of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011240367
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Public Sector Efficiency: Evidence for Latin America
Afonso, António; Romero, Alma; Monsalve, Emma - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
We compute Public Sector Performance (PSP) and Public Sector Efficiency (PSE) indicators and Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) efficiency scores for a sample of twenty-three Latin American and Caribbean Countries (LAC) to measure efficiency of public spending for the period 2001-2010. Our results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010652671
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Benchmarking Container Port Technical Efficiency in Latin America and the Caribbean
Serebrisky, Tomas; Sarriera, Javier Morales; Araya, Gonzalo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
We developed a technical efficiency analysis of container ports in Latin America and the Caribbean using an input-oriented stochastic frontier model. We employed a 10-year panel with data on container throughput, port terminal area, berth length, and number of available cranes in 63 ports. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944418
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Public Sector Efficiency: Evidence for Latin America
Afonso, António; Romero, Alma; Monsalve, Emma - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
We compute Public Sector Performance (PSP) and Public Sector Efficiency (PSE) indicators and Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) efficiency scores for a sample of twenty-three Latin American and Caribbean Countries (LAC) to measure efficiency of public spending for the period 2001-2010. Our results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010672750
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Agricultural Insurance Revisited: New Developments and Perspectives in Latin America and the Caribbean
Wenner, Mark D. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2005
The purpose of this paper is to provide Bank staff interested in agricultural yield insurance market development …, public officials responsible for financial market policy formulation and supervision, and insurance industry practitioners in … guidelines and recommendations on how to develop viable and sustainable agricultural yield insurance markets. The paper relies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009274420
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A Quarter Century of Pension Reform in Latin America and the Caribbean: Lessons Learned and Next Steps
Masci, Pietro; Crabbe, Carolin A.; Ríos, Guillermo Larraín - Inter-American Development Bank; The Principal …
This book focuses on experiences with and lessons learned from the sweeping reforms to the pension systems of Latin America and the Caribbean during the 1990s and early 2000s, which shifted the burden of old-age security from the public to the private sector. The book's main objective is to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772422
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Health Services in Latin America and Asia Title: Servicios de salud en América Latina y Asia
Molina, Carlos Gerardo; Marulanda, Nohra Rey de; … - Inter-American Development Bank
social health insurance, improvements in the equity and efficacy of health services, and changes in public and private sector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772450
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Agricultural Insurance Revisited: New Developments and Perspectives in Latin America and the Caribbean
Wenner, Mark D. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2005
The purpose of this paper is to provide Bank staff interested in agricultural yield insurance market development …, public officials responsible for financial market policy formulation and supervision, and insurance industry practitioners in … guidelines and recommendations on how to develop viable and sustainable agricultural yield insurance markets. The paper relies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010654082
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Making the Most of Family Remittances: Second Report of the Inter-American Dialogue Task Force on Remittances
Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2010
Analysis of the relationship between remittances and the local economies in Central America, with special attention to Nicaragua and Guatemala. It also provides some policy recommendations to leverage and mitigate the impact of remittances.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010654275
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Central America: Remittances and the Macroeconomic Variable
Orozco, Manuel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
Analysis of the relationship between remittances and the local economies in Central America, with special attention to Nicaragua and Guatemala. It also provides some policy recommendations to leverage and mitigate the impact of remittances.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010654469