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-digit inflation in the 1980s. Several other countries--for example, Colombia--have experienced moderate inflation for prolonged …
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four Latin American economies: Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico, during the period 1980-2010. Wages are highly pro … Colombia. This decline in wage cyclicality is in accordance with declining real-wage flexibility in a low-inflation environment …
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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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Two-thirds of Bangladesh is less than 5 meters above sea level, making it one of the most flood prone countries in the world. Severe flooding during a monsoon causes significant damage to crops and property, with severe adverse impacts on rural livelihoods. Future climate change seems likely to...
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Preferential trade agreements have boomed in recent years and extended their reach well beyond tariff reduction, to cover policy areas such as investment, competition, and intellectual property rights. This paper uses new information on the content of preferential trade agreements to examine the...
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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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) estimates obtained at the firm level for Colombia between 1983 and 1998, and finds that more productive sectors receive more …
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Colombia has reduced extreme poverty in the past 16 years by almost half, moderate poverty by 22 percentage points, and … of the distributional impacts of taxes and expenditures in Colombia in 2017. It makes a methodological comparison with … results suggest that the combined effect of taxes and social spending in Colombia contributes to poverty reduction between 0 …
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. This paper analyzes the distributional effects of a newly established bus rapid transit system in Barranquilla, Colombia …
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productivity in Colombia. It estimates total factor productivity for the Colombian manufacturing sector using a method that assumes …
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