-such as small businesses-unserved. The authors examine this issue. Using bank-level data for Argentina, Chile, Colombia, and … was considerably smaller for large and medium-sized banks. And in Chile and Colombia, large foreign banks might actually …

make a time-consistent commitment for fiscal prudence. It examines the cases of Brazil, Colombia, Peru, and Argentina, as …

It is a contentious issue whether large scale mining creates local employment, and the sector has been accused of … hurting women’s labor supply and economic opportunities. This paper uses the rapid expansion of mining in Sub-Saharan Africa …. Effects are stronger in years of high world prices. Mining creates local boom-bust economies in Africa, with permanent effects …

mining activity in Peru, which grew almost twentyfold in the last two decades. The authors find evidence that producing … rate, and higher literacy. However, the positive impacts from mining decrease significantly with administrative and … producing province. The inequalizing impact of mining activity, both across and within districts, may explain part of the …

medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) by banks in Colombia. The paper is motivated by the well-documented financing gap for SMEs …

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. …