El primer objetivo de este trabajo es proporcionar una elaboración sistemática del análisis de tres sectores y testear la visión convencional de que un aumento exógeno en el déficit fiscal podría dar como respuesta un menor aumento en el déficit comercial. Usando datos de Uruguay,...

El objetivo de este documento es analizar la efectividad, los costos y los tiempos de las políticas gubernamentales, las instituciones, las leyes y regulaciones, y los procedimientos que afectan negativamente el clima de negocios en Uruguay. El propósito es resaltar los aspectos positivos que...

El objetivo de este documento es analizar la efectividad, los costos y los tiempos de las políticas gubernamentales, las instituciones, las leyes y regulaciones, y los procedimientos que afectan negativamente el clima de negocios en Uruguay. El propósito es resaltar los aspectos positivos que...

<ul> <li>Chinese Taipei; Hong Kong, China; Korea and Singapore (the East Asian Newly Industrialised Countries or NICs) have been successful in attaining income convergence with high-income countries while Latin American countries remain caught in the Middle-Income Trap.</li> <li>The East Asian NICs pursued...</li></ul>

<ul> <li>There is no unique model of reform for infrastructure that is equally applicable to all countries.</li> <li>Fixed-line privatisation has often failed due to weak economic and institutional endowments.</li> <li>Governments and International Financial Institutions (IFIs) should consider alternative options to...</li></ul>

<ul><li>ASEAN countries should play a more active role in the international standard-setting process for carbon labelling.</li> <li>Fragmented, bottom-up approaches to carbon labelling may lead to a proliferation of different labelling schemes, acting as a constraint to ASEAN exports.</li> <li>Carbon labelling should be...</li></ul>

This paper reviews the literature and contributes with some evidence based on the World Values Survey on the drivers of tax morale around the world, with an emphasis on developing countries. It shows that socio-economic factors such as age, religion, gender, employment status and educational...

Poverty is typically measured in different ways in developing and advanced countries. The majority of developing countries measure poverty in absolute terms, using a poverty line determined by the monetary cost of a predetermined basket of goods. In contrast, most analyses of poverty in advanced...

Using the Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) from the OECD Development Centre, this paper provides evidence of the two-way relationship between gender inequality in social institutions and South-South migration. Discriminatory social institutions in both origin and destination countries...