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General Equilibrium Model as an Instrument of Economic Policy : An Analysis of Exchange Rates and Tariffs

Najberg, Sheila; Rigolon, Francisco José Zagari; Paiva … - 1998

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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The effects of immigration in a developing country : Brazil in the age of mass migration

Escamilla-Guerrero, David; Papadia, Andrea; Zimran, Ariell - 2024

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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The Effects of Immigration in a Developing Country : Brazil in the Age of Mass Migration

Escamilla-Guerrero, David; Papadia, Andrea; Zimran, Ariell - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

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Tariff escalation, export shares and economy-wide welfare : a computable general equilibrium approach

Narayanan, Badri; Khorana, Sangeetha - In: Economic modelling 41 (2014), pp. 109-118

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Long-Term Effects of the Inca Road

Franco, Ana Paula; Galiani, Sebastián; Lavado, Pablo - 2021

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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Education, income and mobility : experimental impacts of childhood exposure to progresa after 20 years

Araujo, María Caridad; Macours, Karen - 2021 - Version: October 4, 2021

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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Managing the distributional effects of energy taxes and subsidy removal in Latin America and the Caribbean

Feng, Kuishuang; Hubacek, Klaus; Liu, Yu; Marchán, … - 2018

Energy subsidies have been criticized due to their economic inefficiency and promotion of wasteful usage of energy and associated carbon emissions. Conversely, environmental taxes are advocated as efficient policy instruments. Nonetheless, removing subsidies and taxing energy can be politically...

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Tourism policy, a big push to employment? : evidence from a multiple synthetic control approach

Castillo, Victoria; Garone, Lucas Figal; Maffioli, … - 2015

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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Cash transfers for pro-poor carbon taxes in Latin America and the Caribbean

Vogt-Schilb, Adrien; Walsh, Brian; Feng, Kuishuang; Di … - 2019

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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The employment consequences of anti-dumping tariffs : lessons from Brazil

Souza, Gustavo de; Li, Haishi - 2022

Can anti-dumping tariffs increase employment? We compile data on all antidumping (AD) investigations in Brazil matching … upstream ones are not affected. To quantify the aggregate effect of these tariffs, we build a model with international trade ….06%, but they decreased welfare by 2.4%. Using tariffs, the government can increase employment by as much as 2.8%. …

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