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Discrimination in Latin America: An Economic Perspective
Gandelman, Néstor; Gandelman, Eduardo; Castillo, Marco; … - Inter-American Development Bank
This book presents a set of studies on contemporary discrimination in Latin America that takes advantage of these new tools by focusing on social interactions that range from cooperation, group formation, and the impact of migration in poor families to specific markets such as housing and labor....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010895493
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Discrimination in Latin America: An Economic Perspective
Ñopo, Hugo; Gandelman, Néstor; Gandelman, Eduardo; … - Inter-American Development Bank
This book presents a set of studies on contemporary discrimination in Latin America that takes advantage of these new tools by focusing on social interactions that range from cooperation, group formation, and the impact of migration in poor families to specific markets such as housing and labor....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943595
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Gender and Racial Wage Gaps in Brazil 1996-2006: Evidence Using a Matching Comparisons Approach
Ñopo, Hugo; Garcia, Luana Marquez; Salardi, Paola - Inter-American Development Bank - 2009
This paper explores the evolution of Brazilian wage gaps by gender and skin color over a decade (1996-2006), using the matching comparison methodology developed by Ñopo (2008). In Brazil, racial wage gaps are more pronounced than those found along the gender divide, although both noticeably...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004998024
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Gender Wage Gaps in Central American Countries: Evidence from a Non-Parametric Approach
Ñopo, Hugo; Enamorado, Ted; Izaguirre, Ana Carolina - Inter-American Development Bank - 2009
This paper compares gender wage gaps for Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s using the non-parametric matching methodology introduced by Ñopo (2008), which allows an analysis not only of average gaps but also their distributions. While a simple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008554075
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Afro-descendants in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru and the Challenges of Measuring Health Gaps
Garcia, Luana Marquez; Morrison, Judith; Bailey, Brittney; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
In Latin America, the inclusion of a race/ethnicity variable in the administrative records of health establishments is … still very rare. Additionally, Health Departments in the countries analyzed have not yet incorporated race … the analysis of existing race/ethnic disparities in access to health services. In this presentation to the ICHAD …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010674046
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Afro-descendants in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru and the Challenges of Measuring Health Gaps
Garcia, Luana Marquez; Morrison, Judith; Bailey, Brittney; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
In Latin America, the inclusion of a race/ethnicity variable in the administrative records of health establishments is … still very rare. Additionally, Health Departments in the countries analyzed have not yet incorporated race … the analysis of existing race/ethnic disparities in access to health services. In this presentation to the ICHAD …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010652562
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Social inclusion and economic development in Latin America
Buvinić, Mayra (contributor); Mazza, Jacqueline (contributor) - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013553169
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Money Matters: Reaching Women Microentrepreneurs with Financial Services Title: Dinero que cuenta: Servicios financieros al alcance de la mujer microempresaria
Almeyda-Stemper, Gloria - Inter-American Development Bank
the financial services offered by a range of institutions, including commercial banks, credit unions, and nongovernmental … institutions within and across countries. It shows that, in addition to nongovernmental organizations, credit unions and some … commercial banks, can and do provide appropriate savings, credit, and other financial services to microentrepreneurs in general …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772455
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Microfinance and Poverty: Questioning the Conventional Wisdom Title: Microfinanzas y pobreza: ¿Son válidas las ideas preconcebidas?
Gulli, Hege - Inter-American Development Bank
Microfinance and Poverty probes a set of assumptions that have arisen about microfinance and poverty reduction and that have become the conventional wisdom, although they have not been proven. These assumptions are examined through a review and analysis of theoretical and applied literature on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772492
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Credit Frictions and "Sudden Stop" in Small Open Economies: An Equilibrium Business Cycle Framework for Emerging Markets Crises
Arellano, Cristina; Mendoza, Enrique G. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002
are distorted even when credit constraints do not bind. Sudden Stops are a property of the unique, flexible …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944555