Offering evidence from both detailed individual country studies and homogenized statistics across the Latin American and Caribbean region, this book examines the impact of the minimum wage on wages, employment, poverty, income distribution and government budgets in the context of a large...

The importance of chronic noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) to global health has gained increased recognition since the early 1990s, and has been accompanied by calls for a stronger policy response. It is increasingly clear that aging populations, rising incomes, and increased exposure to risk...

Este ambicioso libro se origino en un simposio llevado a cabo en Paris en marzo de 2006, promovido por el World Bank's Development Economics Department, y su proposito principal es examinar los distintos papeles que juegan las universidades en el contexto general de los sistemas nacionales de...