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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 ...
Progress and challenges in achieving an evidence-based education policy in Latin America and the Caribbean
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2015-11-11)
This paper reviews the progress economists have made towards achieving an evidence-based educational policy, and highlights challenges that remain. The five main findings are: (1) over the past two decades, much effort has ...
Inflation targeting and term premia estimates for Latin America
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2015-04-11)
Inflation targeting has been widely adopted in Latin America. In this paper, we show evidence consistent with major beneficial effects from so doing, with falling term premia and anchored policy rate expectations. To do ...
On intergenerational (im)mobility in Latin America
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2015-10-28)
This paper studies intergenerational mobility in Latin America and shows that, in addition to the well-documented fact that the Latin American income distribution is highly unequal, profound differences in opportunities ...