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Poverty alleviation strategies under informality: evidence for Latin America
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2019-11-14)
Strategies based on growth and inequality reduction require a long-run horizon, and this paper therefore argues that those strategies need to be complemented by poverty alleviation programs. With regards to such programs, ...
Argentine trade policies in the XX century: 60 years of solitude
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2018-02-02)
At the turn of the last century, the Argentine economy was on a path to prosperity that never fully developed. International trade and trade policies are often identified as a major culprit. In this paper, we review the ...
Path-dependent import-substitution policies: the case of Argentina in the twentieth century
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2018-02-02)
We use a simple three-sector model to narrate the economic history of Argentina during the twentieth century as seen through the prism of its integration into and dis-integration from the world economy. Assuming that capital ...
Introduction to research at the policy frontier in Latin America
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2015-11-10)
The rise of noncommunicable diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean: challenges for public health policies
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2015-11-11)
The health landscape in Latin America and the Caribbean is changing quickly. The region is undergoing a demographic and epidemiological transition in which health problems are highly concentrated on noncommunicable diseases ...
Climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean: policy options and research priorities
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2015-11-11)
Although climate change is filled with uncertainties, a broad set of policies proposed to address this issue can be grouped in two categories: mitigation and adaptation. Developed countries that are better prepared to cope ...
Educational upgrading and returns to skills in Latin America: evidence from a supply–demand framework
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2019-12-11)
This paper documents the evolution of wage differentials and the supply of workers by educational level for sixteen Latin American countries over the period 1991–2013. We find a pattern of rather constant rise in the ...
Introduction: research at the policy frontier in Latin America (Volume II)
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2019-11-13)
The papers in this special issue take stock of the knowledge accumulated in certain areas—anti-poverty programs in the context of informality, crime, gender, urban transport systems, and road safety—and propose the next ...