. It uses dominance tests to determine whether health and education expenditures redistribute resources to the poor. The … paper finds that social services are poorly targeted. Among the services examined, primary education tends to be most … progressive, and university education is least progressive. The paper finds that many taxes are progressive as well as efficient …

The COVID-19 crisis has a severe impact on education and employment and exposed the many social inequities that make … on education, social protection coverage, natural resource endowments, and countries' fragility are strong predictors of …

immediately preceding the recent “heterodox” attempts at stabilization in Argentina, Brazil, and Israel. An attempt is made to …

examine whether, and if so how, pension funds influence market discipline in Argentina in the period 1998-2001. We find …

experience in Argentina and Peru where local banks have been authorized to capture dollar deposits from residents …

in absolute terms and as a fraction of real economic activity. Empirical results using data for Mexico, Chile, Argentina …, and Israel support a negative statistically significant relationship between credit and inflation for Mexico, Argentina …

This paper examines the demand for money under conditions of very high inflation in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile …

(Argentina, Bolivia, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay) during 1970-1993. It presents evidence on the relative size of dollarization, the …