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efficiency, and hindering domestic integration and export performance. This paper assesses the state of Brazil's infrastructure …, in light of past investment trends and various quality and quantity indicators. Brazil's infrastructure stock and its …
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studying the effects of immigration to Brazil during the Age of Mass Migration on its agricultural sector in 1920. This context … informative of developing countries' experience because Brazil in this period was unique among major migrant destinations as a low … interaction of aggregate immigrant inflows and the expansion of Brazil's railway network, we find that a greater immigrant share …
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It is well-established that the Conquest of the Americas by Europeans led to catastrophic declines in indigenous populations. However, less is known about the conditions under which indigenous communities were able to overcome the onslaught of disease and violence that they faced. Drawing upon a...
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The Inca Empire was the last of a long series of highly developed cultures in pre-colonial South America. It stretched across parts of the current territories of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and the whole of Peru. The Inca Road was its 30,000-kilometer-long transportation system....
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In 1997, the Mexican government designed the conditional cash transfer program Progresa, which became the worldwide model of a new approach to social programs, simultaneously targeting human capital accumulation and poverty reduction. A large literature has documented the short and medium-term...
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government can either increase the import tariffs or can devaluate its currency. The impact of both changes in policy is analyzed …
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This paper investigates the impact of tourism policy on employment, using the Tourism Development Policy (TDP) implemented in the Argentinean province of Salta during the years of 2003 to 2010 as a case study. Following the Synthetic Control Method for comparative case studies, we use a...
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Carbon taxes are advocated as efficient fiscal and environmental policies, but they have proven difficult to implement. One reason is that carbon taxes can aggravate poverty by increasing prices of basic goods and services such as food, heating, and commuting. Meanwhile, cash transfer programs...
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