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Understanding the complex relations between trade integration and poverty reduction is now a priority for Latin American policymakers. The chapters of this book, penned by eminent authors with a long-standing record in the field, represent the current state of knowledge about trade and poverty...
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Port of Spain on July 13th, 2004. After more than a decade of economic growth and despite encouraging prospects for the … growth and to benefit its citizens more equitably, the country must continue to grapple with major issues. This report sheds …
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of the environment in development, income inequality and the economic conditions in Haiti. Throughout this project, the …
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This paper revisits economic growth in Colombia using a growth diagnostics methodology to identify the most binding … constraints for economic growth and the policies that, if implemented, can have the largest positive impact. The data shows … for economic growth, independent of whether uncertainties from poor protection to property rights are resolved. …
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countries. The persistence of high incidence of poverty and inequality may be largely explained by the poor performance of labor … opportunities to the poor. In that sense, the links between economic growth, employment creation and the distribution of labor …
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High government debts, weak economic growth, vulnerability to external shocks and the design of sound fiscal …. Stabilization programs may harm economic growth but, under certain conditions, they could be expansionary. The main result of this …
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Caribbean section of the "Global Research Project: Explaining Growth" of the Global Development Network (GDN), a research effort … falling behind. The growth record of Latin America in the recent past has been poor. For decades the average income per capita …
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This paper compares the experience of growth performance and macroeconomic adjustment between East Asia and Latin …
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sustained growth. Starting with a wide-ranging macroeconomic diagnosis, this monograph examines the strengths and …
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In this paper, social mobility is measured by looking at the extent to which family background determines socioeconomic success. Roughly speaking, social mobility can be measure by means of two distinct types of correlations: intergenerational correlations and sibling correlations.
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