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Ensayo sobre una política alternativa para el desarrollo latinoamericano
(CAF, 2015-06-10)
El desarrollo de los países latinoamericanos, particularmente en las últimas décadas, ha sido errático e insuficiente. Medido por diversos índices, América Latina ha venido perdiendo relevancia en el mundo y muy especialmente ...
Oil abundance and growth
(CAF, 2010)
The aim of this paper is to investigate the following questions: Is an abundance of oil, a curse or a blessing? What are the effects of oil abundance on growth and economic development, as seen in the level of income per ...
Criminal Dominance and Campaign Concentration
(CAF, 2019-01-1)
There are many journalistic and anecdotal accounts about the prevalence of electoral corrals in Brazil, geographic areas where brokers, politicians, or community leaders influence residents to vote for a specific candidate. ...
Information sharing and access to finance of SMEs: cross country evidence from survey data
(CAF, 2010)
Using a survey of firms in 61 countries around the world (WBES) and econometric techniques that allow us to deal with observed and unobserved country specific components as well as with partial endogeneity, we explore the ...
State formation, tax structures and mineral abundance Chile and Peru, 1850-1930s
(CAF, 2010)
The paper assesses the impact of natural resource abundance on state formation by looking at how tax structures responded to booming periods in the early ages of the Chilean and Peruvian republic, 1850-1930s. The paper ...
People or places: the causes of spatial income differences in Brazil
(CAF, 2010)
This paper explores testable implications of a simple model of spatial heterogeneity in earnings, a model in which this spatial heterogeneity arises both from differences in the places that people work and differences among ...
Las Competencias Transversales y Socioemocionales en los Marcos de Cualificaciones. Oportunidades para su identificación, medición y fortalecimiento
(DIALOGAS, Adelante, Agcid Chile, MESACTS y CAF, 2019-04-09)
La Mesa Regional de Cooperación Técnica sobre Competencias Transversales y Socioemocionales (MESACTS) se constituye en el año 2016 por el acuerdo entre entidades de gobierno de Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile, México, El ...
Educación técnico vocacional post-secundaria: Lecciones, desafíos y recomendaciones para América Latina
(Diálogo Interamericano, CAF, 2016-09-15)
Las notas técnicas proporcionan resúmenes analíticos de temas fundamentales en el campo de la política educativa. Esta nota examina la educación técnica vocacional al nivel post-secundario, revisando experiencias de los ...
The impact of the minimum wage on the destruction and creation of products
(CAF, 2017-12-06)
We study the impact of changes in the legal minimum wage on the creation and destruction of products at the firm level. This can be a relevant way for increasing firm productivity and for explaining why the raises in the ...
El desafío del desarrollo de habilidades en América Latina. Un diagnóstico de los problemas y soluciones de política pública
(Diálogo Interamericano, Mathematica Policy Research, CAF, 2016-10-31)
La historia de América Latina se ha caracterizado por sus fluctuantes tasas de crecimiento económico, el desarrollo insuficiente del capital humano y altos niveles de desigualdad de ingresos. El final del ciclo
de una ...