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Climate change and sovereign risk: A regional analysis for the Caribbean
Agarwala, Matthew; Burke, Matt; Doherty-Bigara, Jennifer; … - 2024
on how climate change affects sovereign risks is limited. This paper provides forward-looking regional analysis of the … effects of climate change on sovereign creditworthiness, probability of default and the cost of borrowing for the Caribbean …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014564116
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Shock-responsive social protection and climate shocks in Latin America and the Caribbean: Lessons from COVID-19
Costella, Cecilia; Diez, Ana; Beazley, Rodolfo; … - 2023
Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is one of the regions most exposed and vulnerable to climate-related risks, with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014518155
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Telenovelas and attitudes toward the LGBTIQ+ community in Latin America
Gulesci, Selim; Lombardi, María; Ramos, Alejandra - 2023
Latin America and the Caribbean between 2002 and 2019. Exploiting variation in the introduction of new soap operas with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014518206
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Productivity and the Performance of Agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean: From the Lost Decade to the Commodity Boom
Nin-Pratt, Alejandro; Falconi, Cesar; Ludena, Carlos E.; … - 2015
This study analyzes the performance of Latin America and the Caribbean's agriculture between 1980 and 2012 looking at … changes in technical efficiency. Our findings show that between 1980 and 2012, regional agricultural output per worker and TFP …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011535716
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Productivity and efficiency in grassland-based livestock production in Latin America: The cases of Uruguay and Paraguay
Nin, Alejandro; Freiría, Heber; Muñoz, Gonzalo - 2019
This study looks at the performance of livestock production in Uruguay and Paraguay, analyzing two situations with different implications for development: the displacement of livestock by soybean production as occurred in Uruguay and in the Eastern region of Paraguay, and the expansion of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141992
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Productividad y eficiencia en la producción ganadera pastoril en América Latina: Los casos de Uruguay y Paraguay
Nin, Alejandro; Freiría, Heber; Muñoz, Gonzalo - 2019
This study looks at the performance of livestock production in Uruguay and Paraguay, analyzing two situations with different implications for development: the displacement of livestock by soybean production as occurred in Uruguay and in the Eastern region of Paraguay, and the expansion of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012534416
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Higher inequality in Latin America: A collateral effect of the pandemic
Acevedo, Ivonne; Castellani, Francesca; Cota, María José - 2022
. Surprisingly, we found that the differences in income by education level declined in most cases. Remittances had a modest effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014518312
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Understanding Economic Growth in the Caribbean Region: A Conceptual and Methodological Study
Fuentes, J. Rodrigo; Melgarejo, Karl; Mercer-Blackman, … - 2015
A renewed interest in explaining growth in the Caribbean countries is motivated by the somewhat slow but uneven … performance in the past decade: per capita GDP gaps in Caribbean countries have widened in relation to the United States, whereas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011314214
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Productive Development Policies in Trinidad and Tobago: A Critical Review
Moya, Ramiro; Mohammed, Anne-Marie; Sookram, Sandra - 2010
Even as Trinidad and Tobago seeks productive diversification away from the energy sector, the process underlying the country's productive development policies (PDP) is in a state of transition from state-directed industrial policy to a newer approach with extensive private-public participation....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328286
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Climate change, hurricanes, and sovereign debt in the Caribbean basin
Cavallo, Eduardo A.; Gómez, Santiago; Noy, Ilan; … - 2024
Caribbean Islands are exposed to hurricanes, the damages of which are projected to intensify due to anthropogenic … debt. We investigate what the typical impact of Caribbean hurricanes on public debt in the region has been and how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014564049