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This study addresses why Mexico continues to show below-average economic growth rates in spite of displaying … system, their influence on economic growth may remain limited. …
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This document offers estimates of the possible changes in the social structure of the countries of Latin America derived from the consequent economic contraction from the Covid-19 pandemic and explores the possible costs and benefits of different types of interventions to cushion its impact. The...
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This paper presents the results of an impact evaluation, with an experimental design, which estimates the effect on learning math of a remote tutoring program offered to girls and boys aged 9-14 years in three departments of El Salvador. The program used low-tech interventions such as text...
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2020, twice the average annual growth in the inequality indicator that marked the decade of growing inequality in the 1990s …This study explores the evolution of inequality in Latin America during the COVID-19 pandemic using primary data … available from household and employment surveys collected in 2020. Inequality increased on average by 2 percent between 2019 and …
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This paper explores families' investment in skills development through education in a high-inequality, low …-education quality country such as Mexico, comparing it to a lower-inequality, higher-quality education country such as the United States …
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This paper offers a medium-term perspective for analysing the trade openness - inequality relationship in Latin America … years 1980-2010. This 30-year database allows observing clearly that the increases in inequality throughout the 1980s and … this regard is that greater trade openness is associated with contemporaneous increases in inequality in the region. The …
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labor force), with labor supply, inequality, and unemployment. The main conclusion is that demographics and education … wage inequality. By adding them to the demand and institutional factors behind these outcomes, we obtain a clearer picture …
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This work builds on previous research to develop a methodology that simplifies the identification of the best policy options for poverty alleviation in a given country. When a population can be divided into subgroups according to an easily identifiable characteristic, the problem of alleviating...
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The objective of this work is to assess the changes in poverty and inequality that have taken place in Latin America …
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