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...

Aid ineffectiveness, fragmentation, and volatility have already been highlighted by scholars and OECD studies. Far fewer studies have been devoted to another problem of capital flows: herding behaviour. Building upon a methodology applied to financial markets, where herding is a common feature,...

The rapid and massive increase in rural-to-urban worker flows to the coast of China has drawn recent attention to the welfare of migrants working in urban regions, particularly to their working conditions and pay; serious concern is raised regarding pay discrimination against rural migrants....

This study provides a general analysis of economic relations between Spain, as a donor of official development assistance (ODA), and Ecuador, as a partner and recipient of development aid. It seeks to assess the potential (in)coherence between Spain’s foreign economic activities and the goals...

In this paper we test the impact of elections on fiscal policy in Latin American economies in comparison to OECD countries over the period 1990-2006. We find that in Latin American countries, the average primary balance declines by an amount close to 0.7 per cent of GDP during an election year,...

<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>