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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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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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Dropout in tertiary education in Brazil : an analysis of the effects of the PNAES Bolsa Permanência
Saccaro, Alice; França, Marco Túlio Aniceto; Jacinto, … - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 21 (2020) 3, pp. 407-421
In this article, it is explored whether quota students who were enrolled in presential courses at federal institutions between 2009 and 2012 and received PNAES (National Student Support Program) Bolsa Permanência dropped out less than those quota students who did not receive this benefit. For...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012405289
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Has the minimum wage policy been important for reducing poverty in Brazil? : a decomposition analysis for the period from 2002 to 2013
Brito, Alessandra Scalioni; Kerstenetzky, Celia Lessa - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 20 (2019) 1, pp. 27-43
occurred in the first decade of the 21st century in Brazil, considering not only the incidence of poverty but also its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012010147
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Evidence of eligibility manipulation for conditional cash transfer programs
Firpo, Sérgio Pinheiro; Pieri, Renan Gomes de; … - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 15 (2014) 3, pp. 243-260
This paper assesses whether eligibility for conditional cash transfer programs has been manipulated, as well as the impact of this phenomenon on time allocation within households. To perform this analysis, we use data from the 2006 PNAD (Brazilian national household survey) and investigate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011865284
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School absenteeism, work and health among Brazilian children : full information versus limited information model
Machado, Danielle Carusi; Milcent, Carine; Huguenin, Jacques - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 14 (2013) 2, pp. 46-60
aspects and simultaneity, we estimate using the FIML method, which provides some improvement to the quality of the estimation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011864746
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Effect of racial segregation on proficiency of Brazilian elementary school students
Flores, Roberto M. Valladão; Scorzafave, Luiz Guilherme - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 15 (2014) 1, pp. 20-29
literature. We studied the effects of racial segregation on the black-white score gap for 5th-grade students in Brazil. Even …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011865128