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Illicit Activity and Money Laundering from an Economic Growth Perspective : A Model and an Application to Colombia
Villa, Edgar - 2017
overlaps not only in a period of high economic growth, but also after the implementation of Plan Colombia. The data set is used …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012969954
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Engineers, Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas
Maloney, William F. - 2017
This paper offers the first evidence on the prevalence of a central actor in modern growth theory?the engineer. Using newly collected sub-national, and international data as well as historical case studies, it then argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973384
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Equilibrium Fictions : A Cognitive Approach to Societal Rigidity
Hoff, Karla - 2017
This paper assesses the role of ideas in economic change, combining economic and historical analysis with insights from psychology, sociology and anthropology. Belief systems shape the system of categories ( "pre-confirmatory bias" ) and perceptions (confirmatory bias), and are themselves...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976669
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Urban Transport Infrastructure and Household Welfare : Evidence from Colombia
Pfutze, Tobias - 2018
. This paper analyzes the distributional effects of a newly established bus rapid transit system in Barranquilla, Colombia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012927434
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The Distributive Impact of Taxes and Expenditures in Colombia
Jairo, Nunez - 2020
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840242
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Is Formal Lifelong Learning a Profitable Investment for All of Life? How Age, Education Level, and Flexibility of Provision Affect Rates of Return to Adult Education in Colombia
Sohnesen, Thomas Pave - 2006
Lifelong learning is increasingly being recognized as a primary factor for knowledge diffusion and productivity growth. However, little economic evidence exists on the economic value of lifelong learning for the individual, especially in developing countries. This paper contributes to remedy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012783433
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Learning from Developing Country Power Market Experiences : The Case of Colombia
Rudnick, Hugh - 2019
successful in providing reliable supply along competitive outcomes. This paper analyzes the experience of Colombia with power … persist regarding market power exercise. The experience of Colombia is important for other developing countries, since it … outcomes, and sustainability. Although key local hydrological conditions were considered in the design of Colombia's capacity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012889913
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Improving Management with Individual and Group-Based Consulting : Results from a Randomized Experiment in Colombia
Iacovone, Leo - 2019
Differences in management quality are an important contributor to productivity differences across countries. A key question is how to best improve poor management in developing countries. This paper tests two different approaches to improving management in Colombian auto parts firms. The first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870505
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Do Information Technologies Improve Teenagers'Sexual Education? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Colombia
Chong, Alberto - 2019
This study reports results from a randomized evaluation of a mandatory six-month Internet-based sexual education course implemented across public junior high schools in 21 Colombian cities. Six months after finishing the course, the study finds a 0.4 standard deviation improvement in knowledge,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012872118
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Contingent Liabilities Risk Management : A Credit Risk Analysis Framework for Sovereign Guarantees and On-Lending?Country Experiences from Colombia, Indonesia, Sweden, and Turkey
Bachmair, Fritz Florian - 2017
applied in Colombia, Sweden, and Turkey. It also discusses how the proposed framework is applied in Indonesia as it develops a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970229