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Regulation of the electricity industry in Bolivia : its impact on access to the poor, prices and quality
Bojanic, Antonio; Krakowski, Michael - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2003
This paper takes stock with the results of utility privatization in Bolivia. This paper deals with the process of … shows that coverage of electricity users has grown faster in urban areas ever since the establishment of regulation …. Although it is not argued that regulation has caused the increase in electricity consumers, the data does show that a …
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The Bolivian Decentralization Process and the Role of Municipal Associations
Seemann, Miriam - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2004
administrative decentralization. Overall the decentralization process in Bolivia can be seen as an important step towards … October 2003 show, the decentralization laws alone didn?t solve the economic and social problems in Bolivia. …
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The Impact of Labour Market Policies on Productivity in OECD Countries
Bassanini, Andrea; Venn, Danielle - In: International Productivity Monitor 17 (2008) Fall, pp. 3-15
We investigate the impact of labour market policies on labour and multifactor productivity with industry-level data. First and foremost, labour market policies can influence average measured productivity through their impact on employment. Other things equal, employment growth tends to be...
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Enhancing Brazil's Regulatory Framework for Network Industries: The Case of Electricity, Oil and Gas, and Water and Sanitation
Almeida, Edmar Fagundes de; Mulder, Nanno - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2005
This paper assesses Brazil’s regulatory framework and agencies for several network industries (electricity, oil and gas, and water and sanitation). Private investment can be encouraged by tackling regulatory uncertainty in many areas. To this end, recent initiatives include a new regulatory...
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The Political Economy of the Rise and Decline of Developmental States
Medeiros, Carlos Aguiar de - In: Panoeconomicus 58 (2011) 1, pp. 43-56
Based on a classical political economy, on Latin American structuralism, and on Gramscian perspective about the state this paper argues that national economic strategies are formed by particular interactions between institutions and economic structures and evolve according to social conflicts in...
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La reducción de la pobreza y el crecimiento económico ambientalmente sostenible: el caso de América Latina y el Caribe
Yamada, Gustavo - Departamento Académico de Economía, Universidad del … - 2002
La reducción de la pobreza, que afecta a más de un tercio de la población en América Latina y el Caribe, es un objetivo prioritario de las políticas públicas. A partir de un breve diagnóstico de la pobreza, este artículo discute los elementos de una estrategia integral para reducirla,...
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Globalization and the changing institution for sustainability: The case of the Salmon farming industry in Chile
Iizuka, Michiko; Katz, Jorge - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012
The recent expansion of global demand for natural resources has created a production boom in countries endowed with natural resources. Increasing global trade and investment - globalization - offer an important opportunity for developing countries as the global flow of commodities often...
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Impactos econômicos das mudanças climáticas no Brasil
Domingues, Edson Paulo; Haddad, Eduardo Amaral; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The aim of this paper is to develop scenarios of the economic impacts of climate change in Brazil, articulating the projected impacts of climate change on agricultural and energy sectors to macroeconomic scenarios, these related to climate change scenarios developed by IPCC (A2 and B2).
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Under-Savers Anonymous: Evidence on Self-Help Groups and Peer Pressure as a Savings Commitment Device
Meier, Stephan; Kast, Felipe; Pomeranz, Dina - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
We test the effectiveness of self-help peer groups as a commitment device for precautionary savings, through two randomized field experiments among 2,687 microentrepreneurs in Chile. The first experiment finds that self-help peer groups are a powerful tool to increase savings (the number of...
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UNA COMPARATIVA DE FACTORES DE CRECIMIENTO EN AMÉRICA LATINA A TRAVÉS DEL ANÁLISIS CLUSTER
GIMÉNEZ, Gregorio - In: Estudios Economicos de Desarrollo Internacional 8 (2008) 1, pp. 61-74
La mayoría de análisis y políticas económicas en el área de América Latina se centran en enfoques macroeconómicos de naturaleza coyuntural. Frente a este enfoque de corto plazo, la literatura sobre crecimiento destaca el papel que la inversión en capital físico, la inversión en capital...
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