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La violencia en Latinoamérica y sus efectos sobre la inversión y la educación/Violence in Latin America and its Effects in Investment an Education
OSPINA PLAZA, NATALIA; GIMÉNEZ ESTEBAN, GREGORIO - In: Estudios de Economía Aplicada 27 (2009) Diciembre, pp. 781-781
La región de América Latina se caracteriza por tener las tasas más elevadas de violencia criminal. La elevada violencia … la violencia. El estudio se acompaña de un análisis de datos de panel para los países de la región, durante el periodo … 1995 – 2002, que investiga en la relación entre violencia e inversión en capital físico y humano. Del análisis se desprende …
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Homicide Cycles in Colombia
Brauer, J; Gomez-Sorzano, A.G. - In: International Journal of Applied Econometrics and … 1 (2004) 1, pp. 29-50
about eighty percent of the variation in murder cycles are the years of Colombia(s La Violencia period, the years of …
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Does it Make a Difference? Comparing Growth Effects of European and North American FDI in Latin America
Tondl, Gabriele; Prüfer, Patricia - 2007
FDI from the European Union (EU) ranks before FDI from North America (NA) in some of the Latin American countries. We investigate the impact of EU- versus NA-FDI on the growth rate including about 50 controls. Country specific effects and parameter heterogeneity are incorporated in our...
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Financial Development and Economic Growth in Latin America: Is Schumpeter Right?
Bittencourt, Manoel - 2011
In this paper we investigate the role of financial development, or more widespread access to all sorts of finance, in generating economic growth in four Latin American countries between 1980 and 2007. The results, based on panel time-series data and analysis, confirm the Schumpeterian prediction...
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Export promotion organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean: An institutional portrait
Jordana, Jacint; Volpe Martincus, Christian; Gallo, Andrés - 2010
Virtually all Latin American and Caribbean countries have established specialized organizations to promote their exports. Existing analyses of these organizations are at best partial and fragmentary. This paper aims at overcoming these limitations of the literature by presenting a consistent,...
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Intercontinental evidence on socioeconomic status and early childhood cognitive skills: Is Latin America different?
Lopez Boo, Florencia - 2013
This paper documents disparities in cognitive development-as measured by a receptive vocabulary test-between children from households with high and low socioeconomic status (SES) in two different phases of childhood (before and after early school years) in four developing countries: Peru,...
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A cycle-adjusted fiscal rule for sustainable and more equitable growth in Argentina
Zúñiga, Jimena; Capello, Marcelo; Butler, Inés; … - 2013
This paper seeks to identify the most promising fiscal strategy to boost long-term economic growth in Argentina and quantify its effects. To this end, the authors updated a growth-diagnostics study for Argentina and corroborated that low appropriability of social returns and insufficient public...
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On the Credibility of Inflation Targeting Regimes in Latin America
Mariscal, Rodrigo; Powell, Andrew; Tavella, Pilar - 2014
Inflation targeting has been adopted in a set of emerging economies, including eight countries in Latin America. The success of this regime may depend critically on the credibility of the target and the expectation that the authorities will take appropriate actions if the target is breached....
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Poverty, Vulnerability and the Middle Class in Latin America
Stampini, Marco; Robles, Marcos; Sáenz, Mayra; … - 2015
Between 2000 and 2013, Latin America has considerably reduced poverty (from 46.3% to 29.7% of the population). In this paper, we use synthetic panels to show that, despite progress, the region remains characterized by substantial vulnerability that also affects the rising middle-class. More...
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Desenvolvimentismo: A construção do conceito
Fonseca, Pedro Cezar Dutra - 2015
This paper aims to formulate a concept of developmentalism from the Latin American historical reality. It's observed that the term qualifies manifold phenomena, in the past and in the present, without efforts on its delimitation. Thus, the concepts polysemy becomes ambiguity about its denotative...
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