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Hysteresis in Unemployment:Evidence from Latin America

Mednik, Matias; Rodriguez, Cesar M.; Ruprah, Inder J. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2008

This paper tests the hysteresis hypothesis in unemployment for 13 Latin American countries covering the period 1980-2005. The tests exploit the time series and the cross sectional variation of the series, and allows for cross section dependence and a different number of endogenously determined...

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Argentina's Distributional Failure: The Role of Integration and Public Policy

Gasparini, Leonardo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2003

This paper documents the income distribution changes experienced by Argentina during the last decades. Inequality substantially increased, and despite economic growth during some periods, poverty also went significantly up. Two types of episodes have shaped Argentina's income distribution: deep...

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Education, Family Background and Racial Earnings Inequality in Brazil

Arias, Omar; Yamada, Gustavo; Tejerina, Luis - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002

across workers. The results suggest that while equalizing access to quality education, including improved early learning … investigate the role of race, family background and education (both the quantity and quality) in explaining earnings inequality … differences in human capital, including parental education and education quality, and in its returns, account for most but not all …

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Entrepreneurship in Latin America : a step up the social ladder?

Lora, Eduardo (contributor); … - 2013

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Export pioneers in Latin America

Sabel, Charles F. (contributor) - 2012

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Impact Evaluation of Innovation and Linkage Development Programs in Costa Rica: The Cases of PROPYME and CR Provee

Monge-Gonzalez, Ricardo; Rodriguez-Alvarez, Juan Antonio - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013

This paper estimates the impact of two productive development programs (PDPs) in Costa Rica: PROPYME and CR Provee. The first seeks to increase the capacity of small and medium-sized firms (SMEs) to innovate, and the second aims to increase backward linkages between Costa Rican SMEs and...

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On Emerging Economy Sovereign Spreads and Ratings

Powell, Andrew; Martínez, Juan Francisco - Inter-American Development Bank - 2008

This paper analyzes alternative models for emerging sovereign ratings. Although a small number of economic fundamentals explain ratings reasonably well, variations in those economic fundamentals are themselves explained by a small number of world factors. On the other hand, global financial...

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Is Export Promotion Effective in Developing Countries? Firm-Level Evidence on the Intensive and Extensive Margins of Exports

Martincus, Christian Volpe; Carballo, Jerónimo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

How effective are export promotion activities in developing countries? What are the channels through which export promotion affects firms' exports, the intensive margin or the extensive margin? Empirical evidence in this respect is scarce. We aim at filling this gap in the literature by...

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Aid Effectiveness: Politics Matters

Bobba, Matteo; Powell, Andrew - Inter-American Development Bank - 2007

The literature on aid effectiveness has focused more on recipient policies than the determinants of aid allocation yet a consistent result is that political allies obtain more aid from donors than non-allies. This paper shows that aid allocated to political allies is ineffective for growth,...

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Second-tier Government Banks and Access to Credit: Micro-Evidence from Colombia

Eslava, Marcela; Maffioli, Alessandro; Arjona, Marcela … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

Government-owned development banks have often been justified by the need to respond to financial market imperfections that hinder the establishment and growth of promising businesses, and as a result, stifle economic development more generally. However, evidence on the effectiveness of these...

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