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Monitoring public investment: The impact of MapaRegalías in Colombia

Lauletta, Maximiliano; Rossi, Martín Antonio; Cruz … - 2019

This paper analyzes the impact of Mapa- Regalías on efficiency in the execution of public investment projects in Colombia. MapaRegalías is an online platform that displays geo-referenced information and data on royalties coming from the extractives sector. The purpose of the platform is to...

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Monitoreando la inversión pública: El impacto de MapaRegalías en Colombia

Lauletta, Maximiliano; Rossi, Martín Antonio; Cruz … - 2019

This paper analyzes the impact of MapaRegalías on efficiency in the execution of public investment projects in Colombia. MapaRegalías is an online platform that displays geo-referenced information and data on royalties coming from the extractives sector. The purpose of the platform is to...

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Constraints or opportunities? Labor informality and public investment in shaping debt limits

Méndez-Vizcaíno, Juan Camilo; Moreno-Arias, Nicolás - 2023

This paper presents a comprehensive framework examining fiscal sustainabil- ity in developing economies. It integrates public capital, labor informality, and global liquidity shocks in a two-sector DSGE model for a small open economy, revealing their intricate interplay and nonlinear impact on...

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Fiscal consolidations and electoral outcomes in emerging economies: Does the policy mix matter? Macro and micro level evidence from Latin America

Ardanaz, Martín; Hallerberg, Mark; Scartascini, Carlos G. - 2019

Do voters punish governments that introduce fiscal "austerity" measures? If so, does voter response vary according to the design (composition) of fiscal adjustments? What determines the timing of fiscal consolidations? The empirical literature on the political economy of fiscal adjustments,...

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Voter preferences, electoral promises, and the composition of public spending

Keefer, Philip; Scartascini, Carlos G.; Vlaicu, Razvan - 2020

This paper proposes and empirically tests a new demand-side explanation for distortions in public spending composition. Voters prefer spending with certain and immediate benefits when they have low trust in electoral promises and high discount rates. The paper incorporates these characteristics...

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Vote Buying or Campaign Promises? Electoral Strategies When Party Credibility is Limited

Hanusch, Marek; Keefer, Philip; Vlaicu, Razvan - 2016

What explains significant variation across countries in the use of vote buying instead of campaign promises to secure voter support? This paper explicitly models the tradeoff parties face between engaging in vote buying and making campaign promises, and explores the distributional consequences...

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¿Están las hospitalizaciones prolongadas sustituyendo la atención primaria y de largo plazo? Evidencia de Brasil y México

Aranco, Natalia; Bauhoff, Sebastian; Schwarz, Natalie; … - 2024

prolongadas entre pacientes hospitalizados de edad avanzada (65 años o más) en Brasil y México. Desarrollamos un marco conceptual … falta de estos servicios representa el 12% del total de días de hospitalización en Brasil y el 7% en México. En un cálculo … estadounidenses por año en Brasil y 45 millones de dólares estadounidenses en México. …

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Water expenditure, service quality and inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean

Pérez-Urdiales, María; dos Santos, Carolina Tojal Ramos - 2024

, and Uruguay using survey data from the Americas Barometer of the Latin American Opinion Project (LAPOP). Our descriptive …, Costa Rica, and Uruguay, whereas the opposite is true for Colombia. These disparities may be attributed to water tariff …

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Building up local productivity: Infrastructure and firm dynamics in Mexico

Busso, Matias; Fentanes, Oscar - 2024

What determines the aggregate and distributional effects of new transportation infrastructure? One key overlooked channel is the role that infrastructure policy plays in changing the incentives of firms to enter, exit, and grow--in turn generating endogenous changes in local productivity. In...

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Allocative efficiency of government spending for growth in Latin American countries

Pessino, Carola; Altinok, Nadir; Chagalj, Cristian - 2022

There is scant empirical economic research regarding the way that Latin American governments efficiently allocate their spending across different functions to achieve higher growth. While most papers restrict their analysis to the size of government, much less is known about the composition of...

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