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Over the last decade, there has been growing awareness regarding the importance of transparent and effective courts to achieve economic development. However, many Latin American countries find that their judicial system have important deficiencies in terms of access and efficiency. This paper...
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This paper evaluates the impact of the Argentine SME support program PRE on employment, real wages, and exports. The program aimed at increasing the competitiveness of SMEs by co-financing up to fifty percent of expenditures in professional services and technical assistance. We use a unique...
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During the 1990s Peru greatly expanded access to formal judicial services in underserved districts through the construction and staffing of justice modules—physical structures which housed courts, prosecutors and public defenders. The intervention was designed to improve judicial coverage for...
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América Latina no sólo se caracteriza porque la mayoría de su población reside en las ciudades, sino por el hecho de que en ellas anida la pobreza y abundan las áreas deterioradas y los asentamientos informales, con todo el daño que esto implica en materia de salud, educación y acceso a...
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La presentación expone el proyecto Infancia y Familia de prevención de la violencia doméstica de Medellín. Se describen los motivos de su implementación, cómo se evaluó el impacto, los resultados obtenidos y la percepción de los beneficiarios. Se incluyen estadísticas y una serie de...
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América Latina no sólo se caracteriza porque la mayoría de su población reside en las ciudades, sino por el hecho de que en ellas anida la pobreza y abundan las áreas deterioradas y los asentamientos informales, con todo el daño que esto implica en materia de salud, educación y acceso a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772448
La presentación expone el proyecto Infancia y Familia de prevención de la violencia doméstica de Medellín. Se describen los motivos de su implementación, cómo se evaluó el impacto, los resultados obtenidos y la percepción de los beneficiarios. Se incluyen estadísticas y una serie de...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010654923
The purpose of this guideline is to make practitioners aware of simulation approaches for the evaluation of tourism projects. Simulation approaches are particularly useful when experimental or economic approaches for project evaluation are not feasible. For example, it usually is not possible to...
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The purpose of this guideline is to discuss the objectives and approaches of regional (subnational) development programs in order to provide guidance on issues related to evaluating the impact of these programs. Regional development programs are designed to improve the income-generating capacity...
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This note defines what spillover effects are, why it is important to measure them, and how to design a field experiment that will enable researchers to measure the average effects of the treatment in the presence of spillover effects on subjects both eligible and ineligible for the program. In...
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