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Does development reduce migration?
Clemens, Michael A. - 2014
development until countries reach upper-middle income, and only thereafter falls. This note quantifies the shape of the mobility …
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Higher inequality in Latin America : a collateral effect of the pandemic
Acevedo, Ivonne; Castellani, Francesca; Cota, María José - 2022
This study explores the evolution of inequality in Latin America during the COVID-19 pandemic using primary data … available from household and employment surveys collected in 2020. Inequality increased on average by 2 percent between 2019 and … 2020, twice the average annual growth in the inequality indicator that marked the decade of growing inequality in the 1990s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014516178
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Economic Consequences of Independence in Colombia
Kalmanovitz, Salomon - 2008
Independence from Spain was a complex movement of civil confrontation and long and cruel wars of liberation. Human lives were lost, assets destroyed, capital fled, slavery abolished and public issues left to inexpert administrations, but at the same time there was an important reduction in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012768202
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Direct and Indirect Effects of Lockdown Policies on Poverty and Inequality in Latin America
Álvarez, Andrés; Becerra, Oscar; Bernal, Catalina; … - 2021
may have on a country's poverty levels and inequality. Our vulnerability scenarios are based on the national policies used … different effects on poverty and inequality. We find a significant increase on poverty headcount ranging from 25% to 33% percent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013231489
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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
The effects of immigration are reasonably well understood in developed countries, but they are far more poorly understood in developing ones despite the importance of these countries as immigrant destinations. We address this shortcoming by studying the effects of immigration to Brazil during...
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The Economic Impact of Sovereign Defaults in Latin America 1870-2012
Boonman, Tjeerd M. - 2016
This article analyzes sovereign debt defaults in four Latin American countries — Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico — for the period 1870-2012. The impact of sovereign defaults on real GDP growth is generally short-lived, while the impact in terms of output losses is deep and lasts long....
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Spillover effects of the US economic policy uncertainty in Latin America
Coronado, Semei; Martínez, José; Venegas-Martínez, … - In: Estudios de economía 47 (2020) 2, pp. 273-293
This paper is aimed at assessing the spillover effects of the US Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) in macroeconomic variables of major Latin American Countries (LAC): Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, and Chile. To do that, we estimate a set of two-country Structural Vector Autoregressive (SVAR) models...
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An assessment of the effectiveness of anti-poverty programs in the United States
Ben-Shalom, Yonatan; Moffitt, Robert; Scholz, John Karl - 2011
We assess the effectiveness of means-tested and social insurance programs in the United States. We show that per capita expenditures on these programs as a whole have grown over time but expenditures on some programs have declined. The benefit system in the U.S. has a major impact on poverty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285778
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Tax and benefit reforms to support employment and inclusiveness and address poverty in Italy
Bulman, Tim; Pacifico, Daniele; Pisu, Mauro; … - 2019
revenues and increase inequality, by reducing the progressivity of the personal tax system. A proposed reform package that …-wage earners would make inroads into poverty and inequality while encouraging formal work. This paper accompanies and extends the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012202861
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Impact of COVID-19 on India : alternative scenarios for economic and social development
Dasgupta, Purnamita; Panda, Manoj Kumar; Bansal, Rohan; … - In: Journal of the Asia Pacific economy 26 (2021) 2, pp. 319-343
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012588746