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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 … highly significant in the production function. The results show an improvement in the average technical efficiency of ports … achieved a technical efficiency of 94%with respect to the frontier. The paper also studies possible determinants of port …
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Social protection for equity and growth
2000
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Social security systems in Latin America
Oliveira, Francisco Eduardo Barreto de (contributor) - 1994
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Shielding the poor : social protection in the developing world
Lustig, Nora (contributor) - 2001
Has aggregate income growth been effective in reducing poverty and inequality in Latin America? / Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet -- Social protection for the unemployed : programs in Latin America / Gustavo Márquez -- Heterogeneity and optimal unemployment insurance / Hugo A. Hopenhayn...
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Women at work : challenges for Latin America
Piras, Claudia (contributor) - 2004
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Organizational assessment : a framework for improving performance
Lusthaus, Charles; Adrien, Marie-Hélène; Anderson, Gary A. - 2002
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What do you mean? : Conceptual clarity in social policy
Magnoli, Alessandro - 2002
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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...
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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/10010943489
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Aggregate Effects of a Universal Social Insurance Fiscal Reform
Antón, Arturo; Leal, Julio - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
This paper analyzes the aggregate effects of a revenue neutral fiscal-cum-social policy reform in a typical developing country that consists of two main changes: (1) the implementation of universal social insurance to replace the current dual social protection system (i.e., a reconfiguration of...
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