Colombia has the seventh highest Gini coefficient of income inequality in the world. The Santos Administration is aware … Colombia, meanwhile, direct taxes, indirect taxes, and monetary transfers hardly dent the high Gini coefficient. To reduce … presents an illustrative reform package that would be sufficient for Colombia to reach levels of inequality similar to Chile or …

deindustrialization" matters by showing that: a) the premature declining share of the manufacturing sector is largely not driven by a …

contracts without product grading. To do this, the study uses original data from a survey of 450 coffee producers in Tanzania …'s coffee market that take advantage of contractual variation in the Kilimanjaro region. The results indicate that coffee …

Policies and external shocks affecting agriculture, the main source of income for rural households, can be expected to … domestic deregulation affected the coffee sector, its main source of export revenues. Using data from three household surveys … covering the 1990s, the authors confirm a strong correlation between changes in coffee prices (in a liberalized market) and …

After experiencing a boom during the mid-1990s, the performance of Uganda's coffee industry has been disappointing …, weak regulatory framework, and poor infrastructure. Recommendations range from setting up a coffee auction to increasing … facts of the Ugandan coffee industry. It argues that the coffee wilt disease and the effectiveness of the coffee replanting …

. This paper analyzes the distributional effects of a newly established bus rapid transit system in Barranquilla, Colombia …

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 …

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 …