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supported by data from Latin America, Africa, and Asia. A growing number of studies from a range of contexts therefore indicate …
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ascertaining whether Latin America may be able to capture the globalization upside, examines the trends and salient features of … Latin America's globalization as compared with that of Southeast Asia. The paper focuses on trade and financial integration … globalization process. It finds that Latin America is mitigating some bad side effects of financial globalization by moving toward a …
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Latin America. This remains the case after controlling for literacy, other higher order human capital, and demand side …
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Using a new, large data set on quarterly reserve requirements for the period 1970-2011, this paper provides new evidence on the use of reserve requirements as a countercyclical macroprudential tool in developing countries. The appeal of reserve requirements lies in the pro-cyclical behavior of...
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Research from the United States shows that gaps in early cognitive and noncognitive abilities appear early in the life cycle. Little is known about this important question for developing countries. This paper provides new evidence of sharp differences in cognitive development by socioeconomic...
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gender and ethnicity confers cumulative disadvantage for minority groups, especially in Latin America. The paper discusses …
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inequality in Latin America by providing the Shapley-Shorrocks value of this decomposition …
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This paper presents a technical efficiency analysis of container ports in Latin America and the Caribbean using an … ports in the Latin America and the Caribbean region from 36 percent to 50 percent between 1999 and 2009; the best …
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The paper examines the capital structure of regulated infrastructure firms. The authors develop a model showing that leverage, the ratio of liabilities to assets, is lower under high-powered regulation and that firms operating under high-powered regulation make proportionally larger reductions...
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The paper documents the major trends in financial development in Latin America and the Caribbean since the early 1990s …. The paper compares trends in Latin America and the Caribbean with those in Asia, Eastern Europe, and advanced countries … and compares countries within Latin America and the Caribbean. The findings show that financial systems in the Latin …
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