In this article we study the impact of taxation in the telecommunications sector. In order to do so, we develop a model considering the taxes and fees imposed directly or indirectly along the telecommunications value chain. Overall, we find evidence of a negative impact on investment from an...

Gracias a su buen desempeño económico, el Perú está en camino de consolidarse como una economía de ingreso medio, con todos los retos y oportunidades que ello conlleva. Mirando hacia el futuro, las oportunidades son muchas, aunque los retos también lo son. La persistencia de brechas en el...

The Dominican Republic invests a considerable amount of public resources in transfer and subsidy programs with the main objective of redistributing income to and subsidizing consumption of the poor. This study measures the effectiveness with which publicly-financed transfers redistribute income....

This study analyses the distributive consequences associated with the recent international food price crisis in the Andean region. The study explores the distributive repercussions of the crisis by means of a simple simulation exercise which isolates the direct and short-term effects of actual...

Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes are being widely used in developing countries to reduce poverty and enhance children's human capital. Researchers have generally relied on ex-ante evaluation models to fine-tune existing CCTs or to design new ones. One of the main pitfalls is 'targeted...

The Dominican Republic invests a considerable amount of public resources in transfer and subsidy programs with the main objective of redistributing income to and subsidizing consumption of the poor. This study measures the effectiveness with which publicly-financed transfers redistribute income....

Este trabajo analiza las dificultades metodológicas que se presentan al tratar de obtener valores precisos de mortalidad infantil en países que poseen sistemas de registro civil incompletos, así como las alternativas para estimar estos indicadores a partir de otras fuentes de datos. Concluye...

The Dominican Republic invests a considerable amount of public resources in transfer and subsidy programs with the main objective of redistributing income to (and subsidizing consumption of) the poor. This study measures the effectiveness with which publicly-financed transfers redistribute...

Este trabajo analiza las dificultades metodológicas que se presentan al tratar de obtener valores precisos de mortalidad infantil en países que poseen sistemas de registro civil incompletos, así como las alternativas para estimar estos indicadores a partir de otras fuentes de datos. Concluye...

The Dominican Republic invests a considerable amount of public resources in transfer and subsidy programs with the main objective of redistributing income to (and subsidizing consumption of) the poor. This study measures the effectiveness with which publicly-financed transfers redistribute...