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From Growth to Prosperity: Policy Perspectives for Trinidad and Tobago

Artana, Daniel; Thomas, Wendell; Rojas-Suárez, Liliana; … - Inter-American Development Bank

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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Does Participatory Budgeting have an Effect on the Quality of Public Services?: The Case of Peru's Water and Sanitation Sector

Jaramillo, Miguel; Alcázar, Lorena - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013

every sub-national government. We analyze the link from PB to coverage and water service quality indicators. We find no …

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Does Participatory Budgeting have an Effect on the Quality of Public Services?: The Case of Peru's Water and Sanitation Sector

Jaramillo, Miguel; Alcázar, Lorena - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013

every sub-national government. We analyze the link from PB to coverage and water service quality indicators. We find no …

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Quality Assurance and Large Scale Reform: Lessons for Chile

Hopkins, David - Inter-American Development Bank - 2006

national system of quality assurance. Five case studies from British Colombia, England, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and … Scotland are presented along with the 'twelve commandments' for effective quality assurance. The report concludes with key … arguments for evidence based accountability and quality assurance. This report was created from presentations from the …

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Microcredit Impact Assessment: The Brazilian and Chilean Cases

Aroca, Patricio A. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002

The objective of this paper is to evaluate the impact of micro-entrepreneurs income on two Brazilian and Chilean microcredit programs. Drawing on two unique sources of data, control groups are built using the propensity score to match beneficiaries of micro-credit programs with non-beneficiaries...

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Labor Market Effects of Introducing Unemployment Benefits in an Economy with High Informality

Bosch, Mariano; Esteban-Pretel, Julen - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013

Unemployment benefit systems are nonexistent in many developing economies. Introducing such systems poses many challenges, which are partly due to the high level of informality in the labor markets of these economies. This paper studies the consequences on the labor market of implementing an...

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Is Export Promotion Effective in Developing Countries? Firm-Level Evidence on the Intensive and Extensive Margins of Exports

Martincus, Christian Volpe; Carballo, Jerónimo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

How effective are export promotion activities in developing countries? What are the channels through which export promotion affects firms' exports, the intensive margin or the extensive margin? Empirical evidence in this respect is scarce. We aim at filling this gap in the literature by...

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Social Assistance and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from the Uruguayan PANES

Amarante, Verónica; Manacorda, Marco; Vigorito, Andrea; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

This paper uses matched social security and program micro data from the Uruguayan Plan de Atención Nacional a la Emergencia Social to investigate the effect of social assistance on formal labor market outcomes. One specific feature of this program is that households could gain and retain...

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Aid Effectiveness: Politics Matters

Bobba, Matteo; Powell, Andrew - Inter-American Development Bank - 2007

allocated to political allies is ineffective for growth, whereas aid extended to countries that are not allies is highly …

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Labor Market Impacts of Non-Contributory Pensions: The Case of Argentina's Moratorium

Bosch, Mariano; Guajardo, Jarret - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

Argentina had traditionally enjoyed one of the highest elderly coverage rates in Latin America. However, since the mid-1990s coverage rates started a steady decline, especially for low income workers. In response, the Argentine government implemented a series of sweeping reforms in the...

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