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Revista Integración & Comercio: Año 7 : No. 18 : Enero-junio, 2003 Title: Integration & Trade Journal: Volume 7 : No. 18 : January-June, 2003
Ivanic, Maros; Decreux, Yvan; Dee, Philippa; Preckel, … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2003
Poverty in Brazil and Chile; The Role of Transaction Costs in Explaining Economic Performance and Income Distribution: Some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010673059
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Microenterprises and Poverty: Evidence from Latin America
Orlando, María Beatriz; Pollack, Molly - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000
This study assesses poverty in the microenterprise sector in Latin America, presenting stylized facts on potential … poverty risk factors at the household and individual levels. The goal of the paper is to describe the main trends in the … region and the scope of the paper is limited to a descriptive analysis of poverty risk factors based on the nature of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009291844
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What Drives Differences in Inequality across Countries?
Székely, Miguel; Hilgert, Marianne - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000
This paper presents microeconomic simulation techniques to examine what drives differences in inequality across countries. The simulation decomposes cross-country inequality differences into the importance of individual decisions, such as fertility, mating, labor force participation, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944293
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The Microeconomics of Changing Income Distribution in Malaysia
Fields, Gary S.; Soares, Sergei - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002
factors accounting for rising mean income and falling poverty in the two periods. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009357907
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Progress, Poverty and Exclusion: An Economic History of Latin America in the 20th Century Title: Progreso, pobreza y exclusión: Una historia económica de América Latina en el siglo...
Thorp, Rosemary - Inter-American Development Bank
What did the Latin American economies achieve in the course of a hundred years and how has this affected standards of living? This comprehensive history examines the political and economic forces that have shaped Latin America's development process.Abstract: Esta historia económica revisa las...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772479
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Human Capital Policies: What they Can and Cannot Do for Productivity and Poverty Reduction in Latin America
Duryea, Suzanne; Pagés-Serra, Carmen - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002
Raising labor productivity is recognized as a critical factor for increasing economic growth and reducing poverty … levels in Latin America. Low levels of education continue to be singled out as the main obstacle to higher productivity in … the region. We examine the scope for education to lift labor incomes above poverty levels in Latin America and find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944251
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Swimming Against the Tide: Strategies for Improving Equity in Health
Birdsall, Nancy; Hecht, Robert - Inter-American Development Bank - 1995
expenditures toward the poor. Doing this is an essential part of any effective poverty reduction program in developing countries. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944542
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Honoring the Past, Building the Future: Fifty Years of Development in Latin America and the Caribbean Title: Celebrar el pasado, construir el futuro: Cincuenta años de desarrollo e...
Ávila, Ricardo - Inter-American Development Bank
Although science has unlocked the secrets of the human genome, the causes of social and economic development remain stubbornly enigmatic. Why do some countries adopt new technologies more readily than others? Why does income inequality persist in some regions--even in the face of rapid economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772319
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Toward Sustainable and Equitable Development: Sector Strategies for Latin America and the Caribbean Title: Hacia un desarrollo sostenible y equitativo: Estrategias sectoriales para...
Jarque, Carlos M. (contributor) - Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American …
(Sustainable Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction and Promotion of Social Equity) and for each of the four priority areas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772430
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Beyond Reforms: Structural Dynamics and Macroeconomic Vulnerability
Vos, Rob; Frenkel, Roberto; Ocampo, José Antonio; … - Inter-American Development Bank
Beyond Reforms presents the contributions of some United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) analysts as well as research articles prepared for the Commission. It reviews long-term growth and development patterns and focuses on macroeconomic vulnerability and...
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