SSRN Inter-American Development Bank Research Paper Series

1.

Technology and Child Development: Evidence from the One Laptop Per Child Program

IDB Working Paper No. IDB-WP-304

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 01 Apr 2012

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Julian Cristia, Pablo Ibarraran, Santiago Cueto, Ana Santiago and Eugenio Severin

Inter-American Development Bank, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN and affiliation not provided to SSRN

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 4,297

2.

The Economics of Natural Disasters: A Survey

IDB Working Paper No. 35

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 21 Apr 2011

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Eduardo A. Cavallo and Ilan Noy

Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) - Research Department and Victoria University of Wellington

Downloads 3,262

3.

Natural Disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Overview of Risk

IDB Working Paper No. 364

Number of pages: 104 Posted: 21 Apr 2011

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Céline Charvériat

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Downloads 1,268

4.

Foreign Direct Investment: Good Cholesterol?

IADB, Research Department Working Paper No. 417

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 11 Dec 2000

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Ricardo Hausmann and Eduardo Fernandez-Arias

Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,159

5.

Do We Know What Works? A Systematic Review of Impact Evaluations of Social Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean

Number of pages: 144 Posted: 28 Jun 2007

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César P. Bouillon and Luis R. Tejerina

Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)

Downloads 1,032

6.

Structural Reforms in Latin America: What Has Been Reformed and How to Measure it

IADB Research Department Working Paper No. 466

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 19 Jun 2006

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Eduardo A. Lora

Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) - Research Department

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,028

7.

Bank Capital and Loan Loss Reserves Under Basel Ii: Implications for Emerging Countries

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3437

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Giovanni Majnoni, Margaret Miller and Andrew Powell

World Bank, World Bank and Universidad Torcuato Di Tella - School of Business

Downloads 899

8.

The Roots of Banking Crises: The Macroeconomic Context

IDB Working Paper No. 262

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 20 Apr 2011

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Michael Gavin and Ricardo Hausmann

affiliation not provided to SSRN and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)

Downloads 749

9.

Should the Government Be in the Banking Business? The Role of State-Owned and Development Banks

IDB Working Paper No. 428

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 25 Apr 2011

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Eduardo Levy Levy-Yeyati, Alejandro Micco and Ugo Panizza

Universidad Torcuato Di Tella - School of Business, University of Chile and United Nations - Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

Downloads 715

10.

Rising Inequality in Mexico: Returns to Household Characteristics and the 'Chiapas Effect'

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 01 Nov 1999

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César P. Bouillon, Arianna Legovini and Nora Lustig

Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), World Bank and Tulane University

Downloads 680

11.

New Century, Old Disparities: Gender and Ethnic Wage Gaps in Latin America

IDB Working Paper No. 25

Number of pages: 75 Posted: 20 Apr 2011

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Juan Atal, Hugo Ñopo and Natalia Winder

University of Pennsylvania, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and affiliation not provided to SSRN

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 540

12.

Should Latin America Fear China?

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 02 Nov 2004

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Eduardo A. Lora

Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) - Research Department

Downloads 534

13.

Fiscal Decentralization and Government Size in Latin America

IDB Working Paper No. 304

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 20 Apr 2011

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Ernesto Stein

Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 494

14.

Bank Ownership and Performance

IDB Working Paper No. 429

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 25 Apr 2011

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Alejandro Micco, Ugo Panizza and Mónica Yañez

University of Chile, United Nations - Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and affiliation not provided to SSRN

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 492

15.

Foreign Direct Investment: Good Cholesterol?

IDB Working Paper No. 348

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 21 Apr 2011

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Ricardo Hausmann and Eduardo Fernandez-Arias

Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 492

16.

Is FDI a Safer Form of Investment

IADB Research Department Working Paper No. 416

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 06 Nov 2000

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Eduardo Fernandez-Arias and Ricardo Hausmann

Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)

Downloads 474

17.

Financial Turmoil and Choice of Exchange Rate Regime

IDB Working Paper No. 331

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 21 Apr 2011

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Ricardo Hausmann, Michael Gavin, Carmen Pages and Ernesto Stein

Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), affiliation not provided to SSRN, Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

Downloads 447

18.

On Compulsory Voting and Income Inequality in a Cross-Section of Countries

IDB Working Paper No. 444

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 25 Apr 2011

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Alberto Chong and Mauricio Olivera

University of Ottawa and George Washington University

Downloads 431

19.

Regional Integration and the Location of FDI

IDB Working Paper No. 414

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 25 Apr 2011

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Eduardo Levy Levy-Yeyati, Ernesto Stein and Christian Daude

Universidad Torcuato Di Tella - School of Business, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 419

20.

The Size and Composition of Government Spending in Multi-Party Systems

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 04 Mar 2009

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Carlos Scartascini and W. Mark Crain

Research Department - Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and George Mason University - Center for Study of Public Choice

Downloads 416

21.

Social Exclusion and the Two-Tiered Healthcare System of Brazil

IDB Working Paper No. 148

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 19 Apr 2011

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Denisard Alves and Christopher Timmins

FEA-USP and affiliation not provided to SSRN

Downloads 402

22.

Political Institutions and Policy Outcomes in Colombia: The Effects of the 1991 Constitution

IDB Working Paper No. 203

Number of pages: 92 Posted: 19 Apr 2011

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Mauricio Cardenas, Roberto Junguito and Mónica Pachón

Fedesarrollo, affiliation not provided to SSRN and affiliation not provided to SSRN

Downloads 385

23.

Varieties of Capital-Market Crises

IDB Working Paper No. 250

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 20 Apr 2011

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Guillermo A. Calvo

Columbia University - School of International & Public Affairs (SIPA)

Downloads 380

24.

Structural Reforms in Latin America: What Has Been Reformed and How to Measure it (Updated Version)

IDB Working Paper No. IDB-WP-346

Number of pages: 74 Posted: 17 Feb 2013

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Eduardo A. Lora

Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) - Research Department

Downloads 355

25.

Political Institutions and Growth Collapses

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 22 May 2000

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Alejandro Gaviria, Ugo Panizza, Ernesto Stein and Jessica Seddon

Fedesarrollo, United Nations - Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IRPS), Economics

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 352

26.

What's Wrong with International Financial Markets?

IADB Research Dept. Working Paper No. 429

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 07 Jun 2001

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Eduardo Fernandez-Arias and Ricardo Hausmann

Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 342

27.

Innovation, R&D Investment and Productivity in Chile

IDB Working Paper No. 64

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 25 Apr 2011

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Roberto Alvarez, Claudio Bravo-Ortega and Lucas Navarro

University of Chile - Department of Economics, School of Business, Universidad Adolfo Ibañez and Universidad Alberto Hurtado

Downloads 339

28.

Export Pioneers in Latin America

IDB Book No. IDB-BK-107, Columbia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 421

Number of pages: 329 Posted: 09 Jun 2012

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Charles Sabel, Eduardo Fernandez-Arias, Ricardo Hausmann, Andres Rodriguez-Clare and Ernesto Stein

Columbia University - Columbia Law School, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

Downloads 329

29.

Measuring Aid Flows: A New Approach

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2050; Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department Working Paper No. 387

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 16 Aug 2000

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Charles C. Chang, Eduardo Fernandez-Arias and Luis Servén

World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 325

30.

Managing Fiscal Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean: Volatility, Procyclicality, and Limited Creditworthiness

IDB Working Paper No. 269

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 20 Apr 2011

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Michael Gavin, Ricardo Hausmann, Roberto Perotti and Ernesto Talvi

affiliation not provided to SSRN, Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Bocconi University - Department of Economics and Centro de Estudios de la Realidad Economica y Social (CERES)

Downloads 315

31.

Persistent Poverty and Excess Inequality: Latin America, 1970-1995

IDB Working Paper No. 294

Number of pages: 71 Posted: 20 Apr 2011

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Juan Luis Londoño and Miguel Székely

affiliation not provided to SSRN and Center for Education and Social Studies

Downloads 310

32.

The Integrated Macroeconomic Model for Poverty Analysis: A Quantitative Macroeconomic Framework for the Analysis of Poverty Reduction Strategies

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3092

Number of pages: 126 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Pierre-Richard Agenor, Alejandro Izquierdo and Hippolyte Fofack

University of Manchester - School of Social Sciences, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) - Research Department and World Bank

Downloads 304

33.

Money Laundering and its Regulation

IDB Working Paper No. 493

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 25 Apr 2011

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Alberto Chong and Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes

University of Ottawa and Dongeui University

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 298

34.

Political Institutions, Policymaking Processes and Policy Outcomes in Brazil

IDB Working Paper No. 204

Number of pages: 88 Posted: 19 Apr 2011

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Lee J. Alston, Marcus Andre Melo, Bernardo Mueller and Carlos Pereira

Ostrom Workshop, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Universidade de Brasilia and Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV)

Downloads 298

35.

The Surge in Capital Inflows to Developing Countries: Prospects and Policy Response

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 1473

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Eduardo Fernandez-Arias and Peter J. Montiel

Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Williams College - Department of Economics

Downloads 291

36.

What Makes Reforms Likely? Timing and Sequencing of Structural Reforms in Latin America

IADB Working Paper No. W-424

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 25 Sep 2000

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Eduardo A. Lora

Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) - Research Department

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 282

37.

The Educational Gender Gap in Latin America and the Caribbean

IDB Working Paper No. 502

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 25 Apr 2011

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Suzanne Duryea, Sebastian Galiani, Hugo Ñopo and Claudia C. Piras

Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), University of Maryland - Department of Economics, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

Downloads 272

38.

Corporate Governance in Latin America

IDB Working Paper No. 494

Number of pages: 92 Posted: 25 Apr 2011

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Alberto Chong and Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes

University of Ottawa and Dongeui University

Downloads 266

39.

The Emergence of New Successful Export Activities in Latin America: The Case of Chile

IDB Working Paper No. 236

Number of pages: 71 Posted: 12 Apr 2011

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Manuel R. Agosin and Claudio Bravo-Ortega

University of Chile - Department of Economics and School of Business, Universidad Adolfo Ibañez

Downloads 260

40.

An Economic Analysis of Unemployment in Trinidad and Tobago

IDB Working Paper No. 316

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 21 Apr 2011

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Andrew Downes

University of the West Indies (Saint Augustine)

Downloads 259

41.

The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Policy in Latin America: An Analytical Overview

IDB Working Paper No. 136

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 19 Apr 2011

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Jeffry Frieden and Ernesto Stein

Harvard University and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

Downloads 247

42.

Information Technology and Student Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Ecuador

IDB Working Paper No. 78

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 25 Apr 2011

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Paul E. Carrillo, Mercedes Onofa and Juan Ponce

George Washington University - Department of Economics, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) - Sede Ecuador

Downloads 245

43.

Nature, Development, and Distribution in Latin America. Evidence on the Role of Geography, Climate, and Natural Resources

IDB Working Paper No. 313

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 20 Apr 2011

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Michael Gavin and Ricardo Hausmann

affiliation not provided to SSRN and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)

Downloads 242

44.

Currency Mismatches, Balance-Sheet Effects and Hedging in Chilean Non-Financial Corporations

IDB Working Paper No. 432

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 25 Apr 2011

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Kevin Cowan, Erwin Hansen and Luis Oscar Herrera

Adolfo Ibanez University, University of Chile - Department of Business Administration and Central Bank of Chile

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 241

45.

Political Particularism Around the World

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 06 Oct 2001

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Jessica Seddon, Alejandro Gaviria, Ugo Panizza and Ernesto Stein

Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IRPS), Economics, Fedesarrollo, United Nations - Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

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