The literature on aid effectiveness has focused more on recipient policies than the determinants of aid allocation yet a consistent result is that political allies obtain more aid from donors than non-allies. This paper shows that aid allocated to political allies is ineffective for growth,...

El objetivo de este trabajo es reseñar distintos marcos teóricos para el análisis de las zonas de procesamiento de exportaciones (ZPE). Como no existe una teoría específica de esta herramienta de promoción de las ventas externas, la literatura registra aplicaciones de enfoques...

Most Latin American countries have ABC (acronyms from the Spanish words of voucher, mortgage and savings) designed social housing program. Little is known of the impacts of these programs. In this paper we estimate the welfare affects of twelve of these programs. We estimate whether the programs...

This paper considers a conditional cash transfer program targeting poor households in small rural villages and studies the effects of the geographic proximity between villages on individual enrollment decisions. Exploiting variations in the treatment status across contiguous villages generated...

In this paper we estimate the size of shelter induced poverty by housing tenure in Latin America and determine whether public housing programs of the ABC type (programs that require savings, provide vouchers and with the residual financed through a public or privately provided mortgage for a...

La integración política y económica se ha constituido en un tema neurálgico de la agenda caribeña. Este trabajo analiza literatura sobre comercio, crecimiento y acuerdos regionales para discutir sobre la motivación que subyace en la región del Caribe por la integración, los resultados...

Utilizando datos de encuestas mexicanas a microempresas conducidos entre 1992 y 1998 se examina la relación entre la inmigración a USA y las inversiones en microempresas; el uso de trabajo pago e impago, y las ganancias de los microemprendedores Se concluye que las inversiones en microempresas...

This paper presents a retrospective review of several key areas of work of the Capital Markets and Financial Institutions Division (CMF) of the Inter-American Development Bank. Presented with each chapter as an independent piece, the paper analyzes the operations portfolio of CMF from 2006 to...

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...

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...