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Remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean: Money, Markets and Costs
Orozco, Manuel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
A presentation of remittances, money transfer companies and costs of service in 14 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010654956
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Remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean: Money, Markets and Costs
Orozco, Manuel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
A presentation of remittances, money transfer companies and costs of service in 14 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009198852
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The state and income inequality in Brazil
Souza, Marcelo Medeiros Coelho de; Souza, Pedro H. G. F. de - 2015
Using a factor decomposition of the Gini coefficient we measure the contribution to inequality of direct monetary income flows to and from the Brazilian State. The income flows from the State include public servants' earnings, Social Security pensions, unemployment benefits and Social Assistance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012056561
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Growing Pains: Binding Constraints to Productive Investment in Latin America
Fernández-Arias, Eduardo; Jaramillo, Fidel; Agosin, … - Inter-American Development Bank
terms of growth. Included are case studies from seven countries in the region: Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Guatemala, Peru …, Nicaragua, Trinidad and Tobago. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010895444
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Remittances from Japan to Latin America
Bendixen; Amandi - Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2005
Results and analysis of a poll in Japan: Study of Latin American immigrants from Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010652556
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Remittances from Japan to Latin America
Bendixen; Amandi - Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2005
Results and analysis of a poll in Japan: Study of Latin American immigrants from Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009199182
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Implications of Brazilian Institutional Guidelines on educational efficiency
Nascimento, Marcus G. Lavagnole; Becker, Kalinca Lea; … - 2020
This paper aims to investigate the relation between inefficiency in the Brazilian education system and municipal wealth, discussing how the actual legislation possibly influences it. To that end, we apply a stochastic frontier model which accommodates covariates in the asymmetric error component...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012255986
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The effects of conditionality monitoring on educational outcomes : evidence from Brazil's Bolsa Família programme
Paiva, Luis Henrique; Soares, Fabio Veras; Cireno, Flavio; … - 2016
and health indicators. This paper is an ecological study of conditionalities in Brazil's Bolsa Família programme. As …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059248
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Cash benefits to disabled persons in Brazil : an analysis of BPC : continuous cash benefit programme
Souza, Marcelo Medeiros Coelho de; Diniz, Déborah; … - 2015
The paper presents an analysis of the Continuous Cash Benefit Programme (BPC, which stands for Benefício de Prestação Continuada in Portuguese), an unconditional cash transfer to the elderly or to extremely poor individuals with disabilities. The information used in the assessment stems from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012039122
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Early Childhood Development in Brazil: Access and Impact of Childcare and Preschool Services
Barros, Ricardo Paes de; Carvalho, Mirela de; Foguel, Miguel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
This presentation examines the quality of public provided child care versus alternative childcare options, its impact …? How important is the quality of daycare services for child development? The authors evaluate both the economic cost as … well as the quality of 100 daycare centers in Rio de Janeiro based on 470 items and 15 dimensions, over the course of one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009274443