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in Colombia. We use multidimensional pro-poor growth measurement techniques and create indices for assets, health … unequally distributed as in 1997. -- Pro-Poor Growth ; Inequality ; Welfare Measurement ; Multidimensionality of Poverty ; Latin … America ; Colombia …
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of the existence of different steady states for the two variables considered. -- Colombia ; regional growth convergence …
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-nourished between 1995 and 2005. -- Colombia ; regional convergence ; distribution dynamics ; social indicators ; kernel density …
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entire higher education system, which in turn affected enrollment and graduation rates. Colombia faced this challenge with …
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Using administrative data, I track the path of all the secondary school graduates in Colombia from 2002 to 2012 that … improving income distribution in Colombia. Finally, the sheepskin effect is about 12.6% on average and the returns for bachelors …
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This paper examines the effects of mineral extraction on human capital formation in Colombia, a country rich in natural …
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Workers' remittances sent to Latin America declined sharply as the COVID-19 pandemic spread in the first half of 2020, rebounding in the second half. This paper uses a gravity model to estimate the impact of containment and economic support measures, as well as travel restrictions, on...
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-effective way to identify income-poor beneficiaries of targeted anti-poverty programs. However, their usefulness depends on whether …-parametric regression- techniques, we show that the resulting leakage can largely be confined to the non-poor close to the poverty line …. However, simulating the effect on poverty measures of a uniform transfer to beneficiaries across inclusion rates suggests that …
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