La política en el campo de la mujer en el desarrollo señala la capacitación técnica, los servicios del mercado laboral y la formación profesional como áreas prioritarias de acción puesto que la mujer constituye un alto porcentaje de la población económicamente activa en América Latina...

The overall goal of the Bank's Women in Development (WID) Policy is to improve the socioeconomic situation of women in Latin America and the Caribbean and to improve the performance of Bank projects by enhancing women's contributions. To assist project officers in this task, gender guidelines,...

La política en el campo de la mujer en el desarrollo señala la capacitación técnica, los servicios del mercado laboral y la formación profesional como áreas prioritarias de acción puesto que la mujer constituye un alto porcentaje de la población económicamente activa en América Latina...

Este estudio intenta captar la dinámica del proceso en el cual los jóvenes pasan del desempleo a la escuela, al empleo no remunerado y al empleo no calificado de bajos salarios, y su repercusión en los factores determinantes y en las políticas de desempleo juvenil. Este análisis de...

his policy analysis looks at the economic relationships between sectors, where formal and informal sectors are intimately linked in terms of youth and adult workers, where skilled workers and their shortages exist throughout all sectors of the economy, and where downsizing and technical change...

his policy analysis looks at the economic relationships between sectors, where formal and informal sectors are intimately linked in terms of youth and adult workers, where skilled workers and their shortages exist throughout all sectors of the economy, and where downsizing and technical change...

Este estudio intenta captar la dinámica del proceso en el cual los jóvenes pasan del desempleo a la escuela, al empleo no remunerado y al empleo no calificado de bajos salarios, y su repercusión en los factores determinantes y en las políticas de desempleo juvenil. Este análisis de...

This paper analyzes political economy determinants of exchange rate policy in Brazil over the past thirty years. Two complementary methodologies are used. The first consists of investigating the exchange rate policy historical context over this period. Thus, part of the paper is dedicated to an...

This paper analyzes econometrically how a country`s post-crisis debt ratio could be forecast, in the aftermath of a debt crisis, from the previous debt-to-GDP ratio. A critical parameter is simply the debt-to-PPP-GDP ratio, where PPP-GDP is, in current international dollars, the Summers-Heston...

The use of income distribution indicators in the economics literature has increased considerably in recent years. This work relies on household surveys from 18 LAC countries to take a step back from the use of these indicators, and explore what`s behind the numbers, and what information they...