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DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES: POLITICS, THE STATE AND INSTITUTIONS IN DOMINICAN DEVELOPMENT IN THE XXI CENTURY
Lozano, Wilfredo - Center for Migration and Development Studies, Woodrow … - 2010
, Colombia, Argentina, Chile and the Dominican Republic, with regard to the contribution to national development in four specific … Alejandro Portes of the University of Princeton. The project analyses the national experiences of development in Mexico …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011150042
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The Latin American and Caribbean Energy Review 2003
Garrón, Mauricio; Villarreal, Alejandro; Chiliquinga, Byron - EconWPA - 2005
The 2003 Energy review,contains information about the 2003 energy situation of each of our member countries, regional data, as well as economic and social indicators corrected and extended through historical series. It presents and innovative structure for analysis that allows the reader to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118923
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Por una segunda oportunidad : la formación para el trabajo de jóvenes vulnerables
Jacinto, Claudia; Gallart, María Antonia - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1998
Presents a collection of articles on training of young poor people. The first part analyses case studies evaluating the training experiences of youngsters in poverty; the second part includes a description of youth training programmes, evaluation of training programmes and training institutes.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010633744
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Modelling long-run energy consumption under model uncertainty
Humer, Stefan; Csereklyei, Z. - EcoMod Network - 2012
The causality between energy consumption and real income in developed countries has been a very vital research topic in recent years. Raising concerns about climate change and global warming increase the pressure on policy makers to take action against energy depletion. Unfortunately these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886612
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Consecuencias economicas de los regimenes de proteccion de los trabajadores en America latina.
Marshall, Adriana - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1994
Examines whether labour productivity and industrial competitiveness are affected by legislation on dismissals, atypical contracts of employment and unemployment benefits.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010690130
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The informal economy and the constraints that it imposes on pension contributions in Latin America
Tuesta, David - BBVA Research, Grupo BBVA - 2014
, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru. Once the specific question relating to pension contributions has been identified in the … this problem. This study therefore aims to approach the subject by exploring the national household surveys for Brazil …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277394
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Output Gap Uncertainty and Real-Time Monetary Policy
Grigoli, Francesco; Herman, Alexander; Swiston, Andrew; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2015
Output gap estimates are subject to a wide range of uncertainty owing to data revisions and the difficulty in distinguishing between cycle and trend in real time. This is important given the central role in monetary policy of assessments of economic activity relative to capacity. We show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011163120
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Nonfinancial Firms in Latin America; A Source of Vulnerability?
Gonzalez, Maria - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
We examine corporate sector vulnerabilities in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru. First, we identify stylized …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242251
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Infrastructure and productivity in Latin America: is there a relationship in the long run?
Teles, Vladimir Kühl; Mussolini, Caio Cesar - In: Journal of Economic Studies 39 (2012) January, pp. 44-62
(TFP) in the four major Latin American economies: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico. Design/methodology/approach – The … relationship between infrastructure and economic growth for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico between 1950 and 2000, using new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009421142
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Drivers of Strategic Contestation in South America
Flemes, Daniel; Wehner, Leslie - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2012
The politics of contestation on the part of secondary regional powers such as Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Venezuela … towards Brazil as the regional leader oscillate between competition and cooperation, inasmuch as the South American region has … tactics, which constitute their respective foreign policy strategies, to soft balance Brazil. These tactics include alliance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010680421