Documents et rapports
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Public Spending Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean : When Cyclicality Meets Rigidities (anglais)
Chapter 1 of the report discusses differences in the evolution of the size and composition of public spending between high-income and low- and middle-income nations. These differences are cause and effect...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 192950 Date du document: 8 août 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Riera-Crichton, Daniel,Vuletin, Guillermo Javier
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Who Decides Social Policy? : Social Networks and the Political Economy of Social Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean (anglais)
Who decides the formulation of social policy? What resources do actors bring to decision-making processes? How do those resources position them within decision making networks? This book addresses these...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 154099 Date du document: 2 novembre 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bonvecchi,Alejandro,Scartascini, Carlos
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Fiscal Rules and Economic Size in Latin America and the Caribbean (anglais)
Following the collapse of commodity prices in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) in 2014-15, many countries in the region were unable to cushion the impact of the shock in order to experience a more...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 158167 Date du document: 1 janvier 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Blanco Cossio,Fernando Andres,Saavedra,Pablo,Koehler-Geib, Friederike,Skrok,Emilia
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Wage inequality in Latin America : understanding the past to prepare for the future (anglais)
What caused the decline in wage inequality of the 2000s in Latin America? Looking to the future, will the current economic slowdown be regressive? Wage Inequality in Latin America: Understanding the Past...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 122492 Date du document: 28 décembre 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Messina,Julián,Silva,Joana C. G.
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Stop the Violence in Latin America : A Look at Prevention from Cradle to Adulthood (anglais)
The Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region has the undesirable distinction of being the world's most violent region, with 24.7 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants. The magnitude of the problem is staggering...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 117872 Date du document: 1 juillet 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Chioda,Laura
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Beyond commodities : the growth challenge of Latin America and the Caribbean (anglais)
The Growth Challenge of Latin America andthe Caribbean shows that Latin America and the Caribbean's growthperformance over the past decade cannot be reduced to the commodityboom: growth-promoting reforms...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 1101101 Date du document: 9 novembre 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Araujo,Jorge A. De Thompson R.,Vostroknutova,Ekaterina,Brueckner,Markus,Clavijo,Mateo,Wacker,Konstantin M.
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Cashing in on education : women, childcare, and prosperity in Latin America and the Caribbean (anglais)
Investments in education across countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have transformed the lives of millions of girls and the prospects of their families and societies. Unleashing the full economic...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 113644 Date du document: 4 octobre 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mateo Díaz,Mercedes,Rodriguez Chamussy,Lourdes
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Work and family : Latin American and Caribbean women in search of a new balance (anglais)
Over recent decades, women in Latin America and the Caribbean have increased their labor force participation faster than in any other region of the world. This evolution occurred in the context of more...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 105982 Date du document: 12 mai 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Chioda,Laura
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Does what you export matter? In search of empirical guidance for industrial policies : Qué tan importante es lo que se exporta? Guía práctica para la formulación de políticas industriales (espagnol)
Does what economies export matter for development? If so, can industrial policies improve on the export basket generated by the market? This book approaches these questions from a variety of conceptual...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 70325 Date du document: 30 mars 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lederman,Daniel,Maloney,William F.
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From right to reality : incentives, labor markets, and the challenge of universal social protection in Latin America and the Caribbean : De los derechos a la realidad : incentivos, mercados de trabajo, y el desafio de la proteccion social universal en America Latina y el Caribe (espagnol)
This series was created in 2003 to promote debate, disseminate information and analysis, and convey the excitement and complexity of the most topical issues in economic and social development in Latin...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 67523 Date du document: 30 mars 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ribe,Helena G.,Robalino,David A.,Walker,David Ian
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Great Teachers : how to raise student learning in Latin America and the Caribbean (anglais)
While the importance of good teaching may be intuitively obvious, over the past decade education research has begun to quantify the high economic stakes around teacher quality. In a world where the goals...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 91839 Date du document: 30 octobre 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bruns,Barbara,Lugue, Javier
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Emerging issues in financial development : lessons from Latin America (anglais)
Since the 1990s, financial systems around the world, and especially those in developing countries, have gained in soundness, depth, and diversity, prompted in part by a series of financial sector and macroeconomic...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 83498 Date du document: 17 décembre 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Anginer,Deniz,Auqui, Martin,Calderon,Cesar,Ceballos,Francisco,Cortes,Mariano,D'Hulster,Katia,De La Torre,Augusto,Didier Brandao,Tatiana,Dijkman,Miquel,Feyen,Erik H.B.,Gutierrez,Eva M.,Heysen Zegarra,Maria Del Socorro,Ize,Alain,Levy-Yeyati,Eduardo,Martinez Peria,Maria Soledad,Raddatz Kiefer,Claudio Enrique,Schmukler,Sergio L.,Seelig,Steven,Serven,Luis,Williams,Thomas A.
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Entrepreneurship in Latin America : a step up the social ladder? (anglais)
Entrepreneurship is a critical process in a dynamic capitalist economy. It generates new productive capacities, processes, and goods; promotes innovation; and fosters employment creation, growth, and development...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 83153 Date du document: 25 novembre 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Anchorena, Jose,Arteaga, Elizabeth,Castellani,Francesca,Federico, Juan S.,Kantis,Hugo Daniel,Lora, Eduardo,Ordenana, Xavier,Ronconi,Lucas,Solimano,Andres R.,Trajtenberg, Luis A.,Velez-Grajales, Roberto,Velez-Grajales,Viviana
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New century, old disparities : gender and ethnic earnings gaps in Latin America and the Caribbean (anglais)
Despite sustained economic growth at the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century, Latin America and the Caribbean still faces high inequality and weak indicators of well-being among certain...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 72461 Date du document: 7 septembre 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Nopo Aguilar,Hugo Rolando
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Does what you export matter? In search of empirical guidance for industrial policies (anglais)
Does what economies export matter for development? If so, can industrial policies improve on the export basket generated by the market? This book approaches these questions from a variety of conceptual...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 70325 Date du document: 13 juin 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lederman,Daniel,Maloney,William F.
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From right to reality : incentives, labor markets, and the challenge of universal social protection in Latin America and the Caribbean (anglais)
This series was created in 2003 to promote debate, disseminate information and analysis, and convey the excitement and complexity of the most topical issues in economic and social development in Latin...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 67523 Date du document: 13 mars 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ribe,Helena G.,Robalino,David A.,Walker,David Ian
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Breeding Latin American tigers : operational principles for rehabilitating industrial policies (anglais)
The specific structure of the book is as follows: chapter one reviews the current situation of Latin America, which historically has been a laggard in economic performance. Chapter two introduces the first...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 65655 Date du document: 11 octobre 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Devlin,Robert Thomas,Moguillansky, Graciela
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Discrimination in Latin America : an economic perspective : Discriminacion en America Latina : una perspectiva economica (espagnol)
The chapters presented in this volume adopt a variety of these methodological tools in order to explore the extent to which discrimination against women and demographic minorities is pervasive in Latin...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 52098 Date du document: 2 octobre 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Nopo Aguilar,Hugo Rolando,Chong Lam,Alberto Elias,Moro, Andrea
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New policies for mandatory defined contribution pensions : industrial organization models and investment products (anglais)
The recent financial crisis is challenging the reform approach to mandated pension a scheme that has emerged over recent decades across the world. This reform approach is characterized by a move toward...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 54894 Date du document: 4 juin 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Impavido,Gregorio,Lasagabaster Latorre,Maria Esperanza,Garcia Huitron,Manuel Enrique
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The quality of life in Latin American cities : markets and perception (anglais)
This book suggests how that exploration should be undertaken, and how a monitoring system that has a solid conceptual basis and is both easy to operate and reasonable in cost can then be put into practice...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 54431 Date du document: 4 mai 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lora, Eduardo, Powell, Andrew, Praag, Bernard M.