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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

This paper surveys the theoretical and empirical literature on the role of state-owned banks and also presents some new results and a robustness analysis. The paper shows that state-owned banks located in developing countries have fiscal costs because they are characterized by lower returns than...

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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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Do welfare programs damage interpersonal trust? Experimental evidence from representative samples for four Latin American cities

Chong, Alberto; Ñopo, Hugo; Rios, Vanessa - 2009

This paper argues that welfare programs are linked with the destruction of social capital, as measured by interpersonal trust in laboratory games. The paper employs experimental data for representative samples of individuals in four Latin American capital cities (Bogota, Lima, Montevideo, and...

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Social mobility in Latin America: A review of existing evidence

Azevedo, Viviane; Bouillon, César P. - 2009

This paper reviews evidence on social mobility in Latin America. Several studies have used data sets that collect intergenerational socio economic information. The data, though limited, suggest that social mobility is low in the region, even when compared with low social mobility developed...

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Structural change in developing countries: Has it decreased gender inequality?

Rendall, Michelle - 2012

This paper examines the evolution of female labor market outcomes from 1987 to 2008 by assessing the role of changing labor demand requirements in four developing countries: Brazil, Mexico, India and Thailand. The results highlight the importance of structural change in reducing gender...

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Unemployment invariance

Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002

This paper provides a critique of the "unemployment invariance hypothesis", according to which the behavior of the labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity and the labor force. Using Solow growth and endogenous growth...

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Renewable energy policy in the presence of innovation: Does government pre-commitmnt matter?

Madlener, Reinhard; Neustadt, Ilja - 2010

In a perfectly competitive market with a possibility of technological innovation we contrast guaranteed feed-in tariffs …. Specifically, we model decisions about the technological innovation with convex costs within the framework of a game …-commitment. We find that for the case of technological innovation with convex costs subsidy policies are preferable over quota …

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