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Macchiavello, Luis J. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2004

relations with Japan, and the tenth in the world. At that time just 14 countries had this kind of links with Japan. The Japanese …

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Foreign Workers in Japan

Tezuka, Kazuaki - Inter-American Development Bank - 2005

This document is about foreign workers in Japan, the evolution of immigration policy in this country, working … conditions and social security. In order to sustain the Japanese economy and its society, the United Nations, OECD, and the Japan … Business Federation (Nippon Keidanren) have suggested that Japan should allow several tens of thousands of foreign workers to …

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Fragmentation and Agglomeration Matter: Japanese Multinationals in Latin America and East Asia

Kimura, Fukunari; Ando, Mitsuyo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2003

Latin America and East Asia presented diversified performance in industrialization in the 1990s, and one of the crucial factors that made the contrast was the different degree of developing international production/distribution networks. This paper analyzes micro data of Japanese multinational...

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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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The Roots of Banking Crises: The Macroeconomic Context

Gavin, Michael; Hausmann, Ricardo - 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. These macroeconomic causes of bank vulnerability and crisis have important implications for regulatory regimes, and for macroeconomic policy itself. Much of the...

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Debt Sustainability under Catastrophic Risk: The Case for Government Budget Insurance

Cavallo, Eduardo Alfredo; Valenzuela, Patricio; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2007

Natural disasters are an important source of vulnerability in the Caribbean region. Despite being one of the more disaster-prone areas of the world, it has the lowest levels of insurance coverage. This paper examines the vulnerability of Belizes public finance to the occurrence of hurricanes and...

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Inequality, Institutions, and Informality

Gradstein, Mark; Chong, Alberto E. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2004

This paper presents theory and evidence on the determinants of the size of the informal sector. We propose a simple theoretical model in which the informal sector's size is negatively related to institutional quality and positively related to income inequality. These predictions are then...

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Building Regional Infrastructure in Latin America

Tanzi, Vito - Inter-American Development Bank - 2005

useful to be reminded that the term infrastructure is relatively new in economics. The focus in this paper is on regional …

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The Unexplained Part of Public Debt

Jaimovich, Dany; Panizza, Ugo; Campos, Camil F.S. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2006

This paper shows that budget deficits account for a relatively small fraction of debt growth and that stock-flow reconciliation, which is often considered a residual entity, is one of the key determinants of debt dynamics. After having explained the importance of the stock-flow reconciliation,...

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Rent Seeking and Democracy in Latin America: What Drives What?

Calderón, César; Chong, Alberto E. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2006

Drawing on previously unused objective institutional data, we provide evidence for the causal link between rent-seeking behavior and democracy in Uruguay, a country where both rent-seeking behavior and political shifts have varied widely in the last 80 years, but where ethnolinguistic...

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