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, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru). They find that in these countries standard CPI inflation typically reflects the inflation rate …
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medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) by banks in Colombia. The paper is motivated by the well-documented financing gap for SMEs …
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This paper presents an evaluation of multiple variants of a commonly used intervention to boost education in developing countries - the conditional cash transfer - with a student level randomization that allows the authors to generate intra-family and peer-network variation. The analysis tests...
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bear a unique sample of households in Colombia that is largely homogeneous along key confounders-mostly poor, rural, and …
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Colombia, which has used preferential sales taxes and import tariffs to stimulate hybrid and electric cars sales. Using highly … detailed data on vehicle purchases and attributes, the paper estimates an equilibrium model of Colombia's market that includes … analysis finds that Colombia's sales tax and import tariffs have increased hybrid and electric vehicle market shares by 0.9 to …
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Households in rural Colombia are confronted with a variety of violent threats: attacks and displacement threats by … appropriate political answer to chronic violence in Colombia as well as in other areas of chronic conflict. …
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economies in the water industry in four countries (Brazil, Colombia, Moldova, and Vietnam) that differ substantially in economic … find evidence of economies of scale in Colombia, Moldova, and Vietnam, implying the existence of a natural monopoly. In …
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A firm's absorptive capacity, human capital and linkages with knowledge institutions have been shown to increase the firm's probability of innovating in OECD economies. Despite its importance for national- and firm-level competitiveness, few papers examine the impact of the same variables for...
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Colombia's banks provide costly services mainly catered toward high-income clients. Existing fees and costs of checking …
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) estimates obtained at the firm level for Colombia between 1983 and 1998, and finds that more productive sectors receive more …
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