This paper investigates how consumer price inflation is determined in Mali for 1979-2006 along three macroeconomic …

The standard measure of core or underlying inflation is the inflation rate excluding food and energy prices. This paper … constructs an alternative measure, the weighted median inflation rate, for 38 advanced and emerging economies using subclass …, and more closely related to headline inflation over the next year. The weighted median also has a drawback: in most …

-2002 Survey of Manufacturers database in Colombia to analyze this question. We estimate the effect of the R&D tax deduction … instituted in Colombia using Zellner's Seemingly Unrelated Regressions method, and find that the elasticity of demand of R …&D investment in manufacturing is quite high in Colombia compared to other countries, particularly for smalle …

This paper assesses the effects of capital controls imposed in Colombia in 2007 on capital flows and exchange rate … the appreciation of Colombia's currency, or increased the degree of independence of monetary policy. We also find that …

of public health care in Colombia during 1993-2008. Parametric pension reforms have focused on increasing the retirement … security system in Colombia is roughly 160 percent of GDP for pensions and about 97 percent of GDP for the health system …