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International remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean amid the Covid-19 crisis : a push for digitalization?
Frisancho Robles, Verónica; Parrado, Eric - 2021
Remittances constitute a significant safety net for millions of households in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC … of remittances. The recovery of remittances was accompanied by a modest and temporary increase in the interest in digital …
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Do remittances help smooth consumption during health shocks? : evidence from Jamaica
Beuermann, Diether W.; Ruprah, Inder S.; Sierra, Ricardo E. - 2014
We identify whether remittances facilitate consumption smoothing during health shocks in Jamaica. In addition, we … investigate whether remittances are subject to moral hazard by receivers, how the informal insurance provided by remittances … remittances offer complete insurance toward decreased consumption during health shocks and that moral hazard is weak. The role of …
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The incidence of recent child health improvements in Africa
Sahn, David E.; Younger, Stephen D. - 2014
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The role of education and income inequality on environmental quality : a panel data analysis of the EKC hypothesis on OECD
Maranzano, Paolo; Bento, João Paulo Cerdeira; Manera, … - 2021
We study the impact of human capital and the level of education on the pollution-income relationship controlling for income inequality in 17 OECD countries. By applying an innovative approach to country grouping, based on the temporal evolution of income inequality and clustering techniques to...
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Better to grow or better to improve? : measuring environmental efficiency in OECD countries with a Stochastic Environmental Kuznets Frontier
Badunenko, Oleg; Galeotti, Marzio; Hunt, Lester C. - 2021
The standard approach to the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) holds that as a country develops and GDP per capita grows environmental degradation initially increases but eventually it reaches a turning point where environmental degradation begins to decline. Environmental degradation takes many...
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Higher inequality in Latin America : a collateral effect of the pandemic
Acevedo, Ivonne; Castellani, Francesca; Cota, María José - 2022
. Surprisingly, we found that the differences in income by education level declined in most cases. Remittances had a modest effect …
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Footprint of export-related GHG emissions from Latin America and the Caribbean
Li, Kun - 2021
To quantify the growth in GHG emissions related to international trade, we build an extensive database for export-related production and transportation GHG emissions covering 189 countries and 10 sectors from 1990 to 2014. We employ this database to quantify the contribution of production and...
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Is energy planning consistent with climate goals? : assessing future emissions from power plants in Latin America and the Caribbean
Marinkovic, Catalina; Vogt-Schilb, Adrien - 2023
At least ten Latin American and Caribbean countries have pledged to achieve carbon neutrality. Has electricity planning in the region evolved towards reaching these goals? We compare power generation capacity in 2023 to announced plans in 2019. We then estimate committed emissions from existing...
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Fighting global warming : is trade policy in Latin America and the Caribbean a help or a hindrance? : technical appendix
Dolabella, Marcelo; Moreira, Mauricio Mesquita - 2022
Online Technical Appendix to "Fighting Global Warming: Is Trade Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean a Help or a Hindrance?"It describes in more detail the data sources, the empirical strategy; and presents a series of robustness checks.
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Fighting global warming : is trade policy in Latin America and the Caribbean a help or a hindrance?
Dolabella, Marcelo; Moreira, Mauricio Mesquita - 2022
The dire prospects of global warming have been increasing the pressure on policymakers to use trade policy as a mitigation tool, challenging trade economists' canonical "targeting principle." Even though the justifications for this stance remain as valid as ever, it no longer seems feasible in a...
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