[PDF] Top 20 Socio Economic Development and poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean

... financieras en el mercado de Londres; Estados Unidos impuso la Ley de Tratamiento Nacional, la misma que faculta que la banca extranjera pueda invertir en territorio norteamericano. En la actualidad –principios del ... See full document

... shows the complexity of linkages between categories affecting household ...solid and dashed lines – going both ways: through the state or the informal sector, depending on whether or not ... See full document

... shown in Table 8.3. They indicate that even when controlling for other poverty measures, and demographic and geographic factors, subjectively poor individuals are more prone than the ... See full document

... reductions in employment among adults. Much to the contrary, there is some evidence that beneficiary households increased their participation in microenterprise activities and made larger ... See full document

... country in our sample we compute isopoverty curves using four alternative poverty ...lines. In each case we estimate three curves, corresponding to the goals of reducing poverty 25%, ... See full document

... average, poverty in the Gallup Poll is 16 points higher than in national household surveys when using the US$2 ...to the differences in incomes between the two ... See full document

... since the early 90s is certainly one of the most notable economic achievements of the region in recent ...disasters, the region’s median inflation has remained in single ... See full document

... with the same dataset used for this document (Gasparini et al., 2006) and report patterns in the Gini coefficient for the distribution of ...countries, in most LAC labour markets ... See full document

... growth in a panel of 20 Latin American and Caribbean countries over the period ...known in the economic literature as the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) ... See full document

... In the early stages of economic and demographic transition, relatively low income levels and living standards tend to be associated with high mortality and fertility ... See full document

... recipients. The Ministry of Commerce (1990, ...for the sovereignty of recipient countries, and doesn’t attach any condition or ask for any privilege, maintaining the “true spirit of sincere ... See full document

... Another puzzle suggested by the present study and others revealing the relatively low educational quality measures for Latin America and other developing countries is: how to explain the[r] ... See full document

... from Latin America between 1980 and ...from Latin America. We used data on 910 Latin American firms to conduct both macro and micro- ...analyses. Latin America’s ... See full document

... including the poorest, have livestock. Livestock contributes directly to the availability and access of foods of these small producers, generally in a complex ...incomes and hence ... See full document

... Bourguignon and Verdier 2000) propose that financial development may not reduce ...that the poor rely more on informal networks for ...financial development would only benefit the rich ... See full document

... Inter-American Development BankTechnical Notes encompass a wide range of best practices, project evaluations, lessons learned, case studies, methodological notes, and other documents of a technical ... See full document

... analyses and quantifi es the relative level of risk in a geographical area that is vulnerable to natural phenomena and with a high proportion of its population in a situation of ... See full document

... is the problem of defining developing areas or the ...organisations. The UN Statistics Division (UNSD) recognises five developing regions: Africa, Americas excluding Northern America, ... See full document

... norma socio-cultural asigna un rol restringido a la mujer, sus decisiones de SSR pueden generar un “trade-off” entre libertad de escogencia y las normas sociales ... See full document

... contracting in 2009, GDP expanded by 5.9% in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2010, although performance varied significantly among countries in the ... See full document