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Preferred and non-preferred creditors
Cordella, Tito; Powell, Andrew - 2021
can refrain from lending into arrears is always repaid and adds value. The analysis suggests that IFIs and market lenders … states. This suggests such lenders should not differentiate lending interest rates according to risk and should not … participate in the restructuring of commercial debt. …
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Bridging the gap: Mobilization of multilateral development banks in infrastructure
Avellán, Leopoldo; Galindo Andrade, Arturo José; … - 2022
of fixed effects. MDB lending significantly increases the inflows from other sources. Cross-border and domestic resources …
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Debt reduction in Latin America and the Caribbean
Panizza, Ugo; Powell, Andrew - 2023
During the pandemic, public debt in Latin America and the Caribbean rose to more than 70 percent of GDP, and countries … are now attempting to lower debt ratios. We analyze past debt reduction episodes and find inflation and the real interest … rate were the most frequent main drivers, while higher growth, fiscal consolidation and debt restructuring were relatively …
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State Capacity and the Quality of Policies: Revisiting the Relationship between Openness and the Size of Government
Chuaire, María Franco; Scartascini, Carlos G.; … - 2014
The literature has identified that countries with higher levels of openness tend to present a larger government sector as a way to reduce the risks to the economy that openness entails. This paper argues that there are a number of policies that can mitigate trade-induced risks, many of which do...
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Estimating the Direct Economic Damage of the Earthquake in Haiti
Cavallo, Eduardo; Powell, Andrew; Becerra, Oscar - 2010
This paper uses simple regression techniques to make an initial assessment of the monetary damages caused by the January 12, 2010 earthquake that struck Haiti. Damages are estimated for a disaster with both 200,000 and 250,000 total dead and missing (i.e., the range of mortality that the...
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Knowledge for development: The IDB's impact in the region
Avellán, Leopoldo; Calderón, Claudia; Lotti, Giulia; … - 2021
By analyzing a novel dataset on publications by the Inter - American Development Bank (IDB), we shed light on the extent to which the knowledge production of a multilateral development bank can reach its beneficiaries. We find that IDB publications are downl oaded mostly in the American...
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Organizational efficiency or bureaucratic quagmire: Do quality at entry assessments improve project performance?
Corral, Leonardo R.; McCarthy, Nancy - 2017
Do quality at entry assessments enhance the delivery of development projects? In this paper we take advantage of approval and execution systems in place at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to examine whether projects that have higher quality at entry-captured through grading scores...
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Management and execution of investment projects, the task prior to the measurement of development effectiveness: The case of the Inter-American Development Bank
LaGarda, Guillermo; Linares, Jennifer; Lopez Marmolejo, … - 2018
The literature on development effectiveness has traditionally focused on the ex-post analysis of projects. While this is the appropriate method of measuring benefits, a previous step must be taken as a forerunner to good ex-post evaluation: the measurement of the efficiency in the execution of...
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Gestión y ejecución de proyectos de inversión, tarea previa a la medición de la efectividad del desarrollo: El caso del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo
LaGarda, Guillermo; Linares, Jennifer; Lopez Marmolejo, … - 2018
The literature on development effectiveness has traditionally focused on the ex-post analysis of projects. While this is the appropriate method of measuring benefits, a previous step must be taken as a forerunner to good ex-post evaluation: the measurement of the efficiency in the execution of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141935
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Why does the Mexican peso depreciate against the dollar? The role of productivity differentials
López Marmolejo, Arnoldo; Ventosa-Santaulària, Daniel - 2018
Over the last three decades, Mexico's macroeconomic policy has been driven by a sound orthodox strategy: an open economy via many trade agreements signed since the mid-1980s, a nominal exchange rate under a flexible regime since 1994, central bank autonomy, and responsible fiscal policy, among...
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