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Evidence from a natural experiment on the development impact of windfall gains : the Camisea Fund in Peru
Corral, Leonardo; Henderson, Heath; Miranda, Juan Jose - 2016
This document studies the economic effect of windfall gains by examining a Peruvian natural experiment. The Camisea Fund for Socioeconomic Development (FOCAM) is an inter-governmental fiscal transfer scheme that allocates natural gas royalties generated by the Camisea Gas Project to eligible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457927
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Gender and climate change in Latin America : an analysis of vulnerability, adaptation and resilience based on household surveys
Andersen, Lykke E.; Verner, Dorte; Wiebelt, Manfred - 2014
variability, for Peru, Brazil and Mexico, which together account for more than half the population in Latin America. Vulnerability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010459122
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A discrete choice approach to estimating armed conflicts' casualties : revisiting the numbers of a "Truth Commission"
Rendón, Sílvio - 2012
Commission' (TRC) of Peru, around 25000 deaths, classified by three sources of information, geographical strata, and perpetrator …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009613675
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The gender wage gap in Peru 1986-2000 : evidence from a matching comparisons approach
Ñopo, Hugo - 2009
Applying the methodology developed in Ñopo (2004), this paper analyzes the evolution of the gender wage gap in Peru …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003844594
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Managing the minerals sector : implications for trade from Peru and Colombia
Korinek, Jane - 2015
sustainable extraction and minimise the negative spillover effects. Colombia and Peru have aimed to do the latter. This study … examines their experiences as regards some aspects of the management of their extractive industries. In particular, it examines …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403610
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Effectiveness of Weather Derivatives as a Cross-Hedging Instrument Against Climate Change : The Cases of Reservoir Water Allocation Management in Guanajuato, Mexico and Lambayeque,...
Juarez-Torres, Miriam - 2013
management for Latin American countries. In this context, weather derivatives are proposed as a complementary mechanism for the … in Peru, with their corresponding particularities and results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087893
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Currency Substitution and Inflation in Peru
Rojas-Suarez, Liliana - 2006
-market-exchange rate and the ratio of domestic to foreign money in Peru; that is, the hypothesis of currency substitution can explain the … behavior of real holdings of money in Peru. The paper also shows that, while the importance of currency substitution as a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012781328
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Monetary and Fiscal History of Peru 1960-2010 : Radical Policy Experiments, Inflation and Stabilization
Martinelli, César - 2018
We describe Peru's experience of chronic inflation through the 1970s and 1980s as a result of the need for inflationary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012911905
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Declining inequality in Latin America? Robustness Checks for Peru
Winkelried, Diego; Escobar, Bruno - 2021
Household surveys underreport incomes from the upper tail of the distribution, affecting our assessment about inequality. This paper offers a tractable simulation method to deal with this situation in the absence of extra information (e.g., tax records). The core of the method is to draw...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013238252