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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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Heuristic Schelling: economy of organized crime
Estrada, Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This article proposes a reading of the armed conflict from an evolutionary design that takes into account the concept of private protection agencies in the works of Schelling. Their aim is to assess the dynamics of conflict and changes from its author's scientific output. A context of conflicts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009132735
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Liberalization of the Gas Sector in Latin America: The Experience of Three Countries
Beato, Paulina; Fuente, Carmen - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000
the production, transport, distribution and retail segments of the gas industry. The experiences of Argentina, Colombia … learned. A description of the main features of the gas sector in Argentina, Mexico and Colombia is presented in Annexes 1, 2 …
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Undetected diabetes in Colombia
Vecino-Ortiz, Andres Ignacio; Trujillo, Antonio J.; … - In: International Journal of Public Policy 8 (2012) 4/5/6, pp. 362-373
of UD in Colombia. We conducted logistic regression analyses using the 2007 Colombian National Health Survey. Taking into … found a diabetes prevalence of 5% in Colombia, where 1/3 are undetected cases. Undetected individuals are as likely as … supporting the hypothesis of a supply-side issue driving undetected diabetes in Colombia. We discuss UD in Colombia using a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010691811
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Overvaluation of the real exchange rate and the Dutch Disease: the Colombian case
Goda, Thomas; Torres, Alejandro - UNIVERSIDAD EAFIT - 2013
Colombia and the sectoral composition of its economy. To this end, we introduce the new “extended Dutch Disease” concept … that Colombia experienced an overvaluation of its real exchange rate, which in turn negatively affected the competitiveness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010762766
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Liberalization of the Gas Sector in Latin America: The Experience of Three Countries
Beato, Paulina; Fuente, Carmen - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000
the production, transport, distribution and retail segments of the gas industry. The experiences of Argentina, Colombia … learned. A description of the main features of the gas sector in Argentina, Mexico and Colombia is presented in Annexes 1, 2 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010652991
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Subsidized childcare and child development in Colombia: Effects of Hogares Comunitarios de Bienestar as a function of timing and length of exposure
Bernal, Raquel; Fernández, Camila - In: Social Science & Medicine 97 (2013) C, pp. 241-249
Rigorous evidence regarding the impact of early care and education on children's development comes primarily from high-income nations. A few studies from Latin America and the Caribbean have identified benefits of conditional cash transfer and home visiting programs on children's development....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011042175
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Public transport integration in Bogotá and Cali, Colombia – Facing transition from semi-deregulated services to full regulation citywide
Hidalgo, Dario; King, Robin - In: Research in Transportation Economics 48 (2014) C, pp. 166-175
Several Latin American cities are replacing their semi-deregulated and dispersed public transport services by integrated public transport systems to overcome quality of service issues and multiple negative externalities. Cities can choose to implement their reform quickly – like Santiago,...
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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...
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Local Means in Value Chain Ends: Dynamics of Product and Social Upgrading in Apparel Manufacturing in Guatemala and Colombia
Pipkin, Seth - In: World Development 39 (2011) 12, pp. 2119-2131
observations from eight months of field research in Guatemala and Colombia, where upgrading firms have their own nationally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010574042