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Dellas, Harris; Niepelt, Dirk - 2014

more favourable loan package; that it is associated with over-investment even when investment does not create collateral …

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What happened to the knowledge economy? ICT, intangible investment and Britain's productivity record revisited

Marrano, Mauro Giorgio; Haskel, Jonathan; Wallis, Gavin - 2007

appears unaffected: investment rates are flat, and productivity has slowed down. We investigate whether measurement issues … as intermediate consumption. Thus they do not count as either GDP or investment. We ask how treating such spending as … investment affects some key macro variables, namely, market sector gross value added (MGVA), business investment, capital and …

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Macroeconomic determinants of exit from aid-dependence

Hailu, Degol; Shiferaw, Admasu - 2012

maintaining moderate inflation, the rate of investment; aggressive effort at domestic resource mobilisation; and structural change …

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Methodology and change : problems of applied social science research techniques in the Commonwealth Caribbean

Lindsay, Louis (contributor) - 1978

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Notes on organization and change in the Caribbean : introductory readings in organizational theory and behaviour

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From social safety net to social policy? The role of conditional cash transfers in welfare state development in Latin America

Bastagli, Francesca - 2009

During the 1990s, conditional cash transfers (CCTs) were adopted by countries across Latin America as central elements of their poverty reduction strategies. Alongside other developments in the area of social assistance, CCTs represent an opportunity for countries to develop an integrated and...

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Towards Effective Social Insurance in Latin America: The Importance of Countercyclical Fiscal Policy

Braun, Miguel; di Gresia, Luciano - 2003

Latin America is a volatile, crisis-prone region, with limited and inadequate social insurance. Therefore, the long-term as well as the recent poor suffer significantly during crises. Furthermore, social spending is procyclical in the region, but less so than total spending, indicating that the...

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Should the Government Be in the Banking Business? The Role of State-Owned and Development Banks

Yeyati, Eduardo Levy; Micco, Alejandro; Panizza, Ugo - 2004

might stem from state-owned banks' activity on projects characterized by low private sector investment and high social …

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Discrimination in Latin America: An elephant in the room?

Chong, Alberto; Ñopo, Hugo - 2007

This paper surveys evidence on discrimination in Latin America and shows that there is a widespread perception of discrimination, especially against the poor, the uneducated and those who lack connections. The channels through which discrimination occurs may be built on the basis of economic...

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Using pseudo-panels to measure income mobility in Latin America

Cuesta, Jose; Ñopo, Hugo; Pizzolitto, Georgina - 2007

This paper presents a comparative overview of mobility patterns in 14 Latin American countries between 1992 and 2003. Using three alternative econometric techniques on constructed pseudo-panels, the paper provides a set of estimators for the traditional notion of income mobility as well as for...

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