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Should Cash Transfers Be Confined to the Poor? Implications for Poverty and Inequality in Latin America

Acosta, Pablo - 2017

This paper compares for 13 Latin American countries the poverty and inequality impacts of cash transfer programs that are given to all children and the elderly (that is, "categorical" transfers), to programs of equal budget that are confined to the poor within each population group (that is,...

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Governance in State-Owned Enterprises Revisited : The Cases of Water and Electricity in Latin America and the Caribbean

Andrés, Luis - 2017

America and the Caribbean. Through a unique dataset, the paper compares 44 leading state companies of the region based on an …

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Methodology for the Assessment of Data Quality : Application to HIV and Aids Programs in Latin America

Rodriguez-Garcia, Rosalia - 2017

Evidence is crucial in strategic planning for HIV response as well as the monitoring of results. This paper presents a simple tool that can be used to analyze the methodological quality of HIV data, its scope and limitations, and whether it can be accurately compared with other evidence. The...

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Youth Employment Transitions in Latin America

Cunningham, Wendy V. - 2017

Using panel data from labor force surveys in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico, the paper maps out young people's paths from the classroom to the work place during the 1980s through the early 2000s. By decomposing transition matrices into propensity to move and rate of separation and estimating...

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Measuring the Technical Efficiency of Airports in Latin America

Perelman, Sergio - 2017

This paper studies the technical efficiency of airports in Latin America. The evolution of productive efficiency in the …

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Infrastructure in Latin America

Calderón, César A. - 2017

ingredient for economic development. Over the past quarter-century, the retrenchment of Latin America's public sector from its … documents, in a comparative cross-regional perspective, the trends in Latin America's infrastructure development, as reflected … assessment of the contribution of infrastructure development to growth across Latin America. Third, it examines the trends in the …

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Social Protection in Latin America : Achievements and Limitations

Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - 2017

Social protection systems in Latin America have been transformed in the past two decades. Until the 1980s, those who … system that is neither properly equitable nor efficient. The twin challenges that now face social protection in Latin America …

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North-South Trade-Related Technology Diffusion : Virtuous Growth Cycles in Latin America

Schiff, Maurice W. - 2017

This paper examines the impact on total factor productivity in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and in other …

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Universal Minimum Old Age Pensions : Impact on Poverty and Fiscal Cost in 18 Latin American Countries

Dethier, Jean-Jacques - 2017

Alleviating poverty for the elderly requires a different approach from other age groups, and a minimum pension is likely to be the only viable option. This paper examines the impact on old age poverty and the fiscal cost of universal minimum old age pensions in 18 Latin American countries using...

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Skills, Exports, and the Wages of Five Million Latin American Workers

Brambilla, Irene - 2017

inequality and international migration. This paper explores the skill premium and its link to exports in Latin America, thus …

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