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This paper assesses the effects of total public debt (external and domestic) on social expenditure worldwide and in Latin America using an unbalanced panel of around 50 countries for the period 1985-2003. The most robust and important finding is that higher debt ratios do reduce social...
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This paper characterizes the evolution of Paraguay s policymaking process (PMP) between 1954 and 2003. We present an …
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efficiency of judicial enforcement on the functioning of credit markets in Paraguay, as well as the solutions developed to …
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The main objective of this study is to examine one aspect of social exclusion, the geographic isolation of individuals living in El Salvador`s rural areas and its impact on three labor market outcomes: labor force participation decision, sector of employment, and labor income. In this study, it...
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shoe manufacture in Peru, which are served by the network of Technological Innovation Centers (CITEs), the most important … technology policy instrument available in Peru. These two chains, in low and medium-technology industries, are representative of … Peru's manufacturing sector. Of particular interest is the role of technical standards as a means of technological …
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Applying the methodology developed in Ñopo (2004), this paper analyzes the evolution of the gender wage gap in Peru …
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This paper discusses program evaluation for ProJoven, the Peruvian youth labor training program. Complementing detailed fieldwork, the econometric work implements a two-stage matching procedure on propensity scores, gender and labor income. This allows identification of differentiated program...
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Peru has one of the highest informality rates in Latin America, with almost 60 percent of the urban labor force working … rates in the 1990s. First, Peru experienced a steady increase in employment allocation in traditionally “informal” sectors …
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returns to education in Urban Peru. Exploiting a rich pair of data sets (ENNIV 1997 and 2000) that include questions on type …
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This paper examines the link between financial deepening and formalization in Peru. Using data from the National … Household Survey, Bloomberg and the Central Bank of Peru Central Bank, the Catao, Pages, and Rosales (2009) model is implemented …
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