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Low contribution levels to pension schemes in Latin America are an enormous obstacle limiting the implementation of a broad-based social security system. Contribution rates measured as a ratio of contributors to the total labour force stand at an average of 40%, or 60% in the best of cases....

New ways of understanding banking, technological improvements, and regulation yield new means of interaction between customers and banks through outsourcing agreements. This paper provides the first harmonised database with information on the number of banking correspondents by country, which...

Nuevas formas de entender la banca, los avances tecnologicos y la regulacion dan lugar a nuevos medios de interaccion entre los clientes y los bancos a traves de contratos de externalizacion. Este documento ofrece la primera base de datos armonizada con el numero de corresponsales bancarios por...

Latinoamerica viene experimentando un periodo amplio de crecimiento. Para que esta tendencia logre expandirse en los proximos años, se requiere cerrar brechas claves que puedan limitar la productividad total de los factores y asi evitar cuellos de botella. Una de esas brechas es la de...

China es ya una de las economias mas importantes del mundo, pero tiene muchas e importantes tareas que resolver, siendo una de ellas la implementacion de un exhaustivo programa social que debera abordar la disminucion de los recursos financieros de la tercera edad tras su retirada de la vida...

Latin America is enjoying a period of extensive growth. If this trend is to continue into the coming years, the key insufficiencies that could limit total factor productivity will have to be dealt with in order to prevent bottlenecks. One of these insufficiencies is the infrastructure gap. The...

Despite the fact that China is already one of the most important economies in the world, the country has many big tasks to solve, being one of them the implementation of a comprehensive social agenda, including those related with the old-age stage and the consequently diminishing financial...

La crisis de deuda en la Union Economica y Monetaria ha planteado la necesidad en muchos de sus paises miembros de abordar una consolidacion fiscal sin precedentes, no solo a corto sino tambien a largo plazo. Por esta razon se ha reavivado la urgente necesidad de acelerar en muchos casos las...

The debt crisis in the Economic and Monetary Union has revealed the need in many member countries to engage in an unprecedented fiscal consolidation process, not only in the short term, but also in the long term. Therefore, the urgent need to accelerate in many cases the reforms of their pension...