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income poverty and inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) at the country level, and to compare LAC estimates to …
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Caribbean. Data indicate that while some gaps in well-being have narrowed, progress is uneven across a set of nine indicators …
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Why have Latin American and Caribbean countries (LAC countries) not replicated Western economic success? We investigate …
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This paper provides evidence on the incidence of poverty among the elderly in Latin America and the Caribbean, based on …
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The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effect of remittances on Latin America`s economic growth thorough 1976 … conclusion is that remittances had a negative and significant effect on the region, although with low magnitude. The countries … most negatively affected by remittances were Mexico, Haiti, Costa Rica and Nicaragua, while Panama, the country that led …
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monetary remittances. These tendencies have revived the debate in the academic and policy spheres over their potential social … source country. In the process, we accentuate the central role played by international remittances. Finally, based on the …
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In this article the author seeks to explain the reasons backing the success of mobile technology in money transfers comparing Africa and Latin America.
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This paper examines the hypothesis of fiscal sustainability for 8 Latin American countries. Using panel data models, we determined whether the revenue and primary expenditure of governments are sustainable in the long run. We used second generation panel data unit root and cointegration tests,...
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regional newspapers, although there is neither a constant reference to the European context nor a strategy for people … between Romania and Hungary are widely reflected in the regional press of Bihor County, and the articles cover subjects like … European Union, financing programs for the cross-border cooperation and regional development, cooperation between the local …
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Because of policy relevance of regional input-output analysis, a vast literature on the construction of regional input …-output tables has emerged in the recent past, especially on the non-survey and hybrid methods. Although, construction of regional … approach to generate the forty two sector regional input-output table for the state of Punjab for 2006-07. …
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