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Crises and the Poor: Socially Responsible Macroeconomics

Lustig, Nora - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000

This paper presents evidence on the impact of economic crisis on poverty and inequality in Latin America. Crises not … only result in higher poverty rates but also may cause irreversible damage to the human capital of the poor. In light of … a poverty reduction strategy. As a result, the paper analyses the role of exchange rate policy, capital controls and …

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The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Interdisciplinary Research in Agriculture

Duffy, Patricia A.; Guertal, Elizabeth A.; Muntifering, … - In: Journal of Agribusiness 15 (1997) 2

Increasingly, interdisciplinary research is being touted as a way to solve real-life problems of interest to the taxpayers who support research at public universities. The purpose of this paper is to examine the benefits of interdisciplinary agricultural research involving economists and natural...

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Cash Wheat Marketing: Strategies for Real People

Brorsen, B. Wade; Anderson, Kim B. - In: Journal of Agribusiness 12 (1994) 2

A new paradigm is needed in extension marketing programs. Attempts to help producers time the market, either through cask sales or futures trading, appear to be of little benefit. Marketing extension programs need to place less emphasis on outlook and futures trading and more emphasis on simple...

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Microfinance: Lessons Learned in Latin America

Miller-Sanabria, Tomas C. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000

The relative success of microfinance in rural credit programs in Latin America is the result of a decentralized development approach stressing a large microenterprise sector, stable and permanent institutions, an appropriate regulatory framework, and a stable economy as essential prerequisites

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Empirical Determinants of Good Institutions: Do We Know Anything?

Straub, Stéphane - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000

Abundant empirical evidence links well-functioning institutions and good governance to better economic and social outcomes. It is thus an important challenge to determine which conjunction of factors produces better institutions. Along this line, the objective of this paper is twofold. First, it...

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Do We Know How Much Poverty There Is?

Székely, Miguel; Lustig, Nora; Cumpa, Martin; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000

This paper tests the sensitivity of poverty indexes to the choice of adult equivalence scales, assumptions about the … handle income misreporting. We also perform sensitivity analysis to the use of different poverty lines and poverty indexes … the total population. Additionally, the ranking of countries with respect to poverty is also highly sensitive. This points …

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Why Low Inequality Spurs Growth: Savings and Investment by the Poor

Birdsall, Nancy; Pinckney, Thomas C.; Sabot, Richard H. - Inter-American Development Bank - 1996

This paper discusses the ways in which macroeconomic developments can put stress on banks, and in extreme cases lead to banking crises. There are many ways in which this can occur, and no specific mechanism is endorsed. These macroeconomic causes of bank vulnerability and crisis have important...

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An Economic Analysis of Unemployment in Trinidad and Tobago

Downes, Andrew S. - Inter-American Development Bank - 1998

Unemployment is regarded as one of the most challenging economic problems facing the governments of the Caribbean. Although there are variations in the measurement of unemployment, official estimates obtained from labor force surveys indicate that in 1995 the unemployment rate ranged from 7.8...

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Labor Market Regulations and Income Inequality: Evidence for a Panel of Countries

Calderón, César; Valdés, Rodrigo; Chong, Alberto E. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2004

This paper presents evidence on the impact of labor regulations on income inequality using two recently published databases on labor institutions and outcomes (Rama and Artecona, 2002; Botero, Djankov, La Porta, López-de-Silanes and Shleifer, 2003) and different cross-section and panel data...

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What Makes Reforms Likely?: Timing and Sequencing of Structural Reforms in Latin America

Lora, Eduardo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000

The wave of structural reforms in Latin America and elsewhere has stimulated the development of a wide body of theoretical literature on the political economy of reform, i.e., the study of the political constraints that condition the timing, speed and sequencing of reforms. This paper tests some...

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