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Perceptions of global supply chains (GSCs) have shifted in recent years from a positive to a more cautious view. Standard GSC measures have mostly not adapted to this change as they focus on participation in, rather than exposure to, foreign supply chains. This paper presents the tools necessary...
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, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, and Peru. Categories of quality determinants include training and curriculum, infrastructure … and Ecuador and match it to survey data. Using machine learning methods, we select the quality determinants that predict … Ecuador--teaching numerical competencies and providing job market information--and one practice--teaching numerical …
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Ecuador. Our analysis is based on two separate sources of data and two identification strategies. First, we extend the results … Ecuador is likely to be modest …
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model to Ecuador to take advantage of inflation variations and the rich panel of monthly retail prices …
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in Ecuador. We find that when firms are notified by the tax authority about detected revenue discrepancies on previously …
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Ecuador, where poor families are selected at random to receive a cash transfer that is equivalent to 7 percent of monthly …
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sample of four emerging small open economies: Argentina, Ecuador, Venezuela, and Brazil. We postulate a stochastic volatility …
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, Ecuador, Romania and Ukraine. We show that because default and restructuring are so painful and costly, it is simply not time …
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Information and communication technologies, such as laptops, can be used for educational purposes as they provide users with computational tools, information storage and communication opportunities, but these devices may also pose as distractors that may tamper with the learning process. This...
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unique administrative data from Ecuador, our approach yields measures of individual-level exposure to exports and imports …. We find that international trade raises earnings inequality in Ecuador, especially in the upper-half of the income … distribution. However, the drop in inequality experienced by Ecuador over the last decade would have been less pronounced in the …
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