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, perhaps the most relevant result is the confirmation that in Colombia, investment decisions are negatively affected by the …This paper revisits economic growth in Colombia using a growth diagnostics methodology to identify the most binding … particular spin to this conclusion by showing that investment decisions at the firm level are also explained by the restoration …
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Tax policy is among the most common and relevant instruments in the toolkit of policy-makers when thinking about promoting growth, yet there is not compelling evidence regarding its effect in Latin American countries. Using a variety of approaches, we estimate the effects on growth of the most...
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expenditures in the field of corporate income tax aimed at encouraging investment. It is intended to provide the basis for a …
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expenditures in the field of corporate income tax aimed at encouraging investment. It is intended to provide the basis for a …
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This Working Paper assesses the impact on investment of a reduction in corporate taxes and the impact on employment …, labor formality, and growth of a reduction in non-wage labor costs in Colombia. First, and following Hall and Jorgensen … (1967), we estimate an investment function, which depends on the user cost of capital, one of whose determinants is the …
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competitividad; Políticas e instrumentos de promoción de exportaciones en Colombia; La experiencia de Costa Rica en la promoción de … Promotion Policies and Instruments in Colombia; Costa Rica's Experience in the Area of Export Promotion; and, Export Promotion …
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, perhaps the most relevant result is the confirmation that in Colombia, investment decisions are negatively affected by the …This paper revisits economic growth in Colombia using a growth diagnostics methodology to identify the most binding … particular spin to this conclusion by showing that investment decisions at the firm level are also explained by the restoration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010652833
This paper empirically explores the effects of payroll taxes, value-added taxes and corporate income taxes on a variety of labor market outcomes such as employment, unemployment, informality, and wages. Using national-level data on labor variables for 15 Latin American countries, the results...
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also developed a summary index of the efficiency of investment allocation that measures whether, and to what extent …, investment funds are going to firms with a higher marginal return to capital. Then it was examined the relationship between this … has led to an increase in the efficiency with which investment funds are allocated. …
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The 2000-2008 Country Program Evaluation (CPE) for Trinidad and Tobago (RE-353) was conducted by the Office of Evaluation and Oversight to inform the Board's discussion with IDB Management regarding future strategy for each country. It involved three weeks of missions to both Trinidad and...
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