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
Working Paper Series
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
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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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4,612
Technology and Child Development: Evidence from the One Laptop Per Child Program
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6401
Number of pages: 42
Posted: 17 Mar 2012
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742
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4,612
2.
The Economics of Natural Disasters: A Survey
IDB Working Paper No. 35
Number of pages: 49
Posted: 21 Apr 2011
Working Paper Series
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) - Research Department and Victoria University of Wellington
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3,369
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
Working Paper Series
affiliation not provided to SSRN
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1,290
4.
Foreign Direct Investment: Good Cholesterol?
IADB, Research Department Working Paper No. 417
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 11 Dec 2000
Working Paper Series
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
There are 2 versions of this paper
Foreign Direct Investment: Good Cholesterol?
IADB, Research Department Working Paper No. 417
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 11 Dec 2000
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1,162
Foreign Direct Investment: Good Cholesterol?
IDB Working Paper No. 348
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 21 Apr 2011
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509
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1,162
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
Working Paper Series
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)
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1,038
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
Working Paper Series
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) - Research Department
There are 2 versions of this paper
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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1,034
Structural Reforms in Latin America: What Has Been Reformed and How to Measure it
IDB Working Paper No. 390
Number of pages: 52
Posted: 21 Apr 2011
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59
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1,034
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
Working Paper Series
World Bank, World Bank and Universidad Torcuato Di Tella - School of Business
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902
8.
The Roots of Banking Crises: The Macroeconomic Context
IDB Working Paper No. 262
Number of pages: 20
Posted: 20 Apr 2011
Working Paper Series
affiliation not provided to SSRN and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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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
Working Paper Series
Universidad Torcuato Di Tella - School of Business, University of Chile and United Nations - Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
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732
10.
Rising Inequality in Mexico: Returns to Household Characteristics and the 'Chiapas Effect'
Number of pages: 29
Posted: 01 Nov 1999
Working Paper Series
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), World Bank and Tulane University
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690
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
Working Paper Series
University of Pennsylvania, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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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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561
New Century, Old Disparities: Gender and Ethnic Wage Gaps in Latin America
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5085
Number of pages: 74
Posted: 02 Aug 2010
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84
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561
12.
Should Latin America Fear China?
Number of pages: 38
Posted: 02 Nov 2004
Working Paper Series
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) - Research Department
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535
13.
Foreign Direct Investment: Good Cholesterol?
IDB Working Paper No. 348
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 21 Apr 2011
Working Paper Series
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
There are 2 versions of this paper
Foreign Direct Investment: Good Cholesterol?
IADB, Research Department Working Paper No. 417
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 11 Dec 2000
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1,162
Foreign Direct Investment: Good Cholesterol?
IDB Working Paper No. 348
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 21 Apr 2011
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509
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509
14.
Fiscal Decentralization and Government Size in Latin America
IDB Working Paper No. 304
Number of pages: 23
Posted: 20 Apr 2011
Working Paper Series
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
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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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501
Fiscal Decentralization and Government Size in Latin America
Journal of Applied Economics, Vol. II, No. 2, pp. 357-391, November 1999
Posted: 10 Jun 2004
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501
15.
Bank Ownership and Performance
IDB Working Paper No. 429
Number of pages: 48
Posted: 25 Apr 2011
Working Paper Series
University of Chile, United Nations - Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and affiliation not provided to SSRN
There are 2 versions of this paper
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496
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496
16.
Is FDI a Safer Form of Investment
IADB Research Department Working Paper No. 416
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 06 Nov 2000
Working Paper Series
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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476
17.
Financial Turmoil and Choice of Exchange Rate Regime
IDB Working Paper No. 331
Number of pages: 35
Posted: 21 Apr 2011
Working Paper Series
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), affiliation not provided to SSRN, Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
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448
18.
Regional Integration and the Location of FDI
IDB Working Paper No. 414
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 25 Apr 2011
Working Paper Series
Universidad Torcuato Di Tella - School of Business, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)
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Regional Integration and the Location of FDI
IDB Working Paper No. 414
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 25 Apr 2011
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434
Regional Integration and the Location of FDI
IADB Research Department Working Paper No. 492
Posted: 19 Apr 2004
Regional Integration and the Location of FDI
Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) No. 492
Posted: 28 Jun 2004
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434
19.
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
Working Paper Series
University of Ottawa and George Washington University
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432
20.
Social Exclusion and the Two-Tiered Healthcare System of Brazil
IDB Working Paper No. 148
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 19 Apr 2011
Working Paper Series
FEA-USP and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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426
21.
The Size and Composition of Government Spending in Multi-Party Systems
Number of pages: 40
Posted: 04 Mar 2009
Working Paper Series
Research Department - Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and George Mason University - Center for Study of Public Choice
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424
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
Working Paper Series
Fedesarrollo, affiliation not provided to SSRN and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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391
23.
Varieties of Capital-Market Crises
IDB Working Paper No. 250
Number of pages: 22
Posted: 20 Apr 2011
Working Paper Series
Columbia University - School of International & Public Affairs (SIPA)
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385
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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Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) - Research Department
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375
25.
Political Institutions and Growth Collapses
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 22 May 2000
Working Paper Series
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
Political Institutions and Growth Collapses
IDB Working Paper No. 350
Number of pages: 29
Posted: 21 Apr 2011
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47
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354
26.
Innovation, R&D Investment and Productivity in Chile
IDB Working Paper No. 64
Number of pages: 61
Posted: 25 Apr 2011
Working Paper Series
University of Chile - Department of Economics, School of Business, Universidad Adolfo Ibañez and Universidad Alberto Hurtado
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345
27.
What's Wrong with International Financial Markets?
IADB Research Dept. Working Paper No. 429
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 07 Jun 2001
Working Paper Series
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
There are 2 versions of this paper
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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342
What's Wrong with International Financial Markets?
IDB Working Paper No. 360
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 21 Apr 2011
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24
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342
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
Working Paper Series
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)
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336
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
Working Paper Series
World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
There are 2 versions of this paper
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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327
Measuring Aid Flows: A New Approach
IDB Working Paper No. 320
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 21 Apr 2011
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22
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327
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
Working Paper Series
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)
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326
31.
Persistent Poverty and Excess Inequality: Latin America, 1970-1995
IDB Working Paper No. 294
Number of pages: 71
Posted: 20 Apr 2011
Working Paper Series
affiliation not provided to SSRN and Center for Education and Social Studies
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310
32.
Political Institutions, Policymaking Processes and Policy Outcomes in Brazil
IDB Working Paper No. 204
Number of pages: 88
Posted: 19 Apr 2011
Working Paper Series
Ostrom Workshop, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Universidade de Brasilia and Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV)
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305
33.
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
Working Paper Series
University of Manchester - School of Social Sciences, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) - Research Department and World Bank
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304
34.
Money Laundering and its Regulation
IDB Working Paper No. 493
Number of pages: 55
Posted: 25 Apr 2011
Working Paper Series
University of Ottawa and Dongeui University
There are 2 versions of this paper
Money Laundering and its Regulation
IDB Working Paper No. 493
Number of pages: 55
Posted: 25 Apr 2011
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300
Money Laundering and its Regulation
Economics & Politics, Vol. 27, Issue 1, pp. 78-123, 2015
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 13 Feb 2015
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1
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300
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
Working Paper Series
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Williams College - Department of Economics
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291
36.
The Educational Gender Gap in Latin America and the Caribbean
IDB Working Paper No. 502
Number of pages: 52
Posted: 25 Apr 2011
Working Paper Series
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), University of Maryland - Department of Economics, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
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282
37.
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
Working Paper Series
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) - Research Department
There are 2 versions of this paper
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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282
What Makes Reforms Likely? Timing and Sequencing of Structural Reforms in Latin America
IDB Working Paper No. 355
Number of pages: 45
Posted: 21 Apr 2011
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70
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282
38.
Corporate Governance in Latin America
IDB Working Paper No. 494
Number of pages: 92
Posted: 25 Apr 2011
Working Paper Series
University of Ottawa and Dongeui University
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267
39.
An Economic Analysis of Unemployment in Trinidad and Tobago
IDB Working Paper No. 316
Number of pages: 47
Posted: 21 Apr 2011
Working Paper Series
University of the West Indies (Saint Augustine)
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266
40.
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
Working Paper Series
University of Chile - Department of Economics and School of Business, Universidad Adolfo Ibañez
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263
41.
Can Institutions Cure Clientelism? Assessing the Impact of the Australian Ballot in Brazil
IDB Working Paper No. IDB-WP-428
Number of pages: 44
Posted: 15 Dec 2013
Working Paper Series
University of Virginia
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255
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
Working Paper Series
George Washington University - Department of Economics, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) - Sede Ecuador
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255
43.
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
Working Paper Series
Harvard University and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
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255
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
Working Paper Series
Adolfo Ibanez University, University of Chile - Department of Business Administration and Central Bank of Chile
There are 2 versions of this paper
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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243
Currency Mismatches, Balance Sheet Effects and Hedging in Chilean Non-Financial Corporations
Inter-American Development Bank Working Paper No. 521
Number of pages: 50
Posted: 28 Feb 2005
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228
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243
45.
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
Working Paper Series
affiliation not provided to SSRN and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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242
46.
Social Mobility in Latin America: Links with Adolescent Schooling
IDB Working Paper No. 146
Number of pages: 45
Posted: 19 Apr 2011
Working Paper Series
affiliation not provided to SSRN
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239
47.
Politics and Exchange Rates: A Cross-Country Approach to Latin America
IDB Working Paper No. 137
Number of pages: 53
Posted: 19 Apr 2011
Working Paper Series
Harvard University, Deutsche Bank and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
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238
48.
Political Particularism Around the World
Number of pages: 22
Posted: 06 Oct 2001
Working Paper Series
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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237
49.
Structural Reforms in Latin America Under Scrutiny
Number of pages: 23
Posted: 30 May 2002
Working Paper Series
United Nations - Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) - Research Department
There are 2 versions of this paper
Structural Reforms in Latin America Under Scrutiny
Number of pages: 23
Posted: 30 May 2002
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232
Structural Reforms in Latin America Under Scrutiny
IDB Working Paper No. 394
Number of pages: 64
Posted: 21 Apr 2011
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227
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232
50.
The Political Economy of Productivity in Brazil
IDB Working Paper No. 21
Number of pages: 62
Posted: 12 Apr 2011
Working Paper Series
Ostrom Workshop, Universidade de Brasilia, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE) and Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV)
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231
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