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A Bit Far? Geography, International Economic Agreements, and Foreign Direct Investment : Evidence from Emerging Markets
Gomez-Mera, Laura - 2019
of 700 firms from four emerging (or newly-emerged) economies: Brazil, India, the Republic of Korea, and South Africa. The …
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Subnational Fiscal Policy in Large Developing Countries : Some Lessons from the 2008-09 Crisis for Brazil, China and India
Fardoust, Shahrokh - 2017
In response to the Great Recession of 2008, many national governments implemented fiscal stimuli packages in 2009 and 2010 to prevent further declines in aggregate demand and to jump start their economic recovery. Where subnational governments responded with fiscal contraction, as in the United...
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Hit and Run? Income Shocks and School Dropouts in Latin America
Cerutti, Paula Maria - 2019
How do labor income shocks affect household investment in upper secondary and tertiary schooling? Using longitudinal data from 2005-15 for Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico, this paper explores the effect of a negative household income shock on the enrollment status of youth ages 15 to 25. The...
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Preferential Liberalization, Antidumping, and Safeguards : Stumbling Block Evidence from Mercosur
Bown, Chad P. - 2018
There is not yet consensus in the trade agreements literature as to whether preferential liberalization leads to more or less multilateral liberalization. However, research thus far has focused mostly on tariff measures of import protection. This paper develops more comprehensive measures of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012935259
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Female Wage Inequality in Latin American Labor Markets
Saavedra, Luz A. - 2017
The author uses quantile regression to document the evolution of the earnings structure of salaried and self-employed female workers in urban areas in three Latin American countries-Argentina, Brazil, and Costa Rica-after structural reforms were introduced. The analysis covers pre- and...
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Fiscal Management in Federal Democracies : Argentina and Brazil
Dillinger, William - 2017
In shifting to decentralized public finances, a country's central government faces certain fiscal management problems. First, during and soon after the transition, unless it reduces pending or increases its own tax resources, the central government tends to have higher deficits as it shifts...
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Declining Inequality in Latin America in the 2000s : The Cases of Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico
Lustig, Nora - 2017
Between 2000 and 2010, the Gini coefficient declined in 13 of 17 Latin American countries. The decline was statistically significant and robust to changes in the time interval, inequality measures, and data sources. In-depth country studies for Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico suggest two main...
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Moderate Inflation
Dasgupta, Susmita - 2017
Inflation persists at moderate rates (15-30 percent) in all the countries that successfully reduced triple-digit inflation in the 1980s. Several other countries--for example, Colombia--have experienced moderate inflation for prolonged periods. The authors introduce types of theories of...
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The Impact of Trade with China and India on Argentina's Manufacturing Employment
Castro, Lucio - 2016
For many in Latin America, the increasing participation of China and India in international markets is seen as a looming shadow of two mighty giantson the region's manufacturing sector. Are they really mighty giants when it comes to their impact on manufacturing employment? The authors attempt...
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Health Systems in East Asia : What Can Developing Countries Learn from Japan and the Asian Tigers?
Wagstaff, Adam - 2017
The health systems of Japan and the Asian Tigers--Hong Kong (China), the Republic of Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan …. Experiences with diagnosis-related groups in Korea and Taiwan (China) point to cost-savings but also to possible knock-on effects … on service volume and total health spending. Korea and Taiwan (China) both offer important lessons for the separation of …
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