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After a decade of strong progress toward the goal of reducing the high levels of income disparities, there are clear signs of a deceleration in the pace of inequality reduction in Latin America. This paper argues that the deceleration is the result of two set of reasons. First, several of the...
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While Latin America has historically been considered a region of very high inequality, the performance of most Latin American countries in terms of reduction of income inequality has been remarkable good in the first decade of this century. Given that those improvements took place in a context...
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Latin America is a rapidly emerging economic region. As such, it is competing with Asian markets for attention and attractiveness. For decades, news about Latin America was not promising. However, in recent years, the major nations of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico have made...
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Good governance is a building block for the performance of regulators, including civil aviation authorities. This paper reports the results of a mapping of governance arrangements across 29 civil aviation authorities in Latin American and Caribbean countries, with the International Civil...
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Currently the world is going through an unprecedented health, social, human and economic crisis due to the pandemic caused by the disease COVID-19. Even though in the current health crisis derived from COVID-19, the frequency of infection and mortality in the child population are lower than in...
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The current report presents and overview of the child labour phenomenon in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region over recent years. It represents part of a broader effort to improve understanding of how child labour is changing over time in the region, and to ensure that policies relating...
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This paper characterizes household spending in education using microdata from income and expenditure surveys for 12 … in education while Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay have the lowest. Tertiary education is the most important form of … spend more in the education of household members. Households with both parents present and those with a female main income …
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