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The relationship between firms and inequality has been a focus of recent attention globally. This chapter summarizes basic facts about this relationship for Latin America. Unlike advanced economies where superstar firm growth has prompted concerns over disproportionate income growth at the top,...
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Massive digitalization advances have made demand response (DR) programs feasible in the residential sector; however, most households in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region do not know about these types of programs. In this report, the authors explore experiments about the willingness of...
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This paper surveys selected themes in the political economy of policymaking in Latin America, with an emphasis on recent research focusing on actual decision and implementation processes, and on the political institutions and state and social actors involved in those processes. In particular,...
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statistically significant effect on financial literacy scores and greater awareness of market prices. Youth in the treatment group …
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data from a large-scale experiment with public high schools in Peru and credit bureau records on the parents of the youth …
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school-based financial education programs for youth. The intervention improves students' and teachers' financial knowledge by …
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experimental evidence, the paper takes stock of the impact of financial education programs aimed at reaching children and youth …
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The aim of this paper is to provide a comparative analysis of out-of-court alternatives in Latin America. It focuses on the importance of these alternatives to restore financial viability to troubled companies in a scenario of recurrent regional instability. The importance of out-of-court...
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