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Capital Controls and Firm Performance: The Effects of the Chilean Encaje
(CAF; Santiago de Chile, 2017-11-30)This paper studies the effects of the capital controls imposed by Chile between 1991 and 1998, i.e. the Chilean encaje, on firms' production, investment and exporting decisions. We use a general equilibrium model with ... -
Growing Together: Assessing Equity and Effciency in an Early-Life Health Program in Chile
(CAF; Santiago de Chile, 2017-11-20)We estimate the impact of participation in Chile Crece Contigo (ChCC), Chile’s flagship earlylife health and social welfare program, on neonatal health outcomes. We use administrative birth data matched to social benefits ... -
Corruption, Custom Reform and Firm Growth: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Colombia
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-11-15)Customs are often prone to corruption because it concentrates a lot of discretionary power in the hand of custom agents who take decisions with high economic stakes for the firms, providing an opportunity for custom agents ... -
Poor Little Children: The Socioeconomic Gap in Parental Responses to School Disadvantage
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-11-08)In this paper, we study how parents react to a widely-used school policy that puts some children at a learning disadvantage. Specifically, we first document that, in line with findings in other countries, younger children ... -
Input-output linkages and sector-specific distortions in the Latin American development problem
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-11-03)In this paper, I analyze the Latin American development problem using a model with input-output linkages, sectorial productivity gaps, and sector-specific distortions. I provide a characterization of the sectorial linkages ... -
21a Conferencia Anual CAF
(CAF, 2017-11)La 21a Conferencia Anual CAF, organizada por CAF – banco de desarrollo de América Latina, el Diálogo Interamericano y la Organización de Estados Americanos (OEA), se llevó a cabo los días 6 y 7 de septiembre de 2017, en ... -
IV Conferencia CAF – Sciences Po: “Repensar la relación Europa/América Latina en tiempos de crisis del multilateralismo”
(CAF; Bogotá, 2017-11)En una época en que soplan vientos de proteccionismo y surgen dudas acerca del futuro del multilateralismo, Europa y América Latina parecen converger alrededor de los valores y prácticas que proporcionaron estabilidad al ... -
The Effect of the Minimum Wage on Employment in Brazil
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-10-16)During the economic boom of the early 2000s, most Latin American countries increased their minimum wages. In Brazil, the real minimum wage increased by upwards of 60 percent from 2003 through 2012. In this paper, we take ... -
Crescimento urbano e acesso a oportunidades: um desafio para a América Latina (resumo executivo)
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-10-16)Este relatório é um esforço para entender os desafios mais críticos que as cidades latino-americanas enfrentam atualmente para o seu desenvolvimento. Para este fim, o conceito de acessibilidade é destacado, isto é, a ... -
Lo que siempre quiso saber sobre los Bankomunales y nunca se atrevió a preguntar
(Fundefir; Bogotá, 2017-10-16)El modelo de Bankomunales se caracteriza por ser de bajo costo, práctico y eficiente, el cual se viene implementando en seis países de la región, de la mano de Fundefir, su creador, con el apoyo de CAF. El Bankomunal es ... -
The Causes and Consequences of the Spatial Organization of Agriculture in Brazil
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-10-10)Why are there vast differences in agricultural activity across space? How do these differences shape the aggregate impact of agricultural shocks? To address these questions, I build a quantitative general equilibrium model ... -
Financial Frictions, Trade, and Misallocation
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-10-07)We investigate the extent to which financial frictions shape the aggregate effects of a trade liberalization through their impact on aggregate total factor productivity (TFP) and capital misallocation. We study a small ... -
The Life-cycle Growth of Plants in Colombia: Fundamentals vs. Distortions
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-10-05)We take advantage of rich microdata on Colombian manufacturing establishments to decompose growth over an establishment’s life cycle into that attributable to fundamental sources of idiosyncratic growth ̶ physical productivity, ... -
Education, signaling and the allocation of entrepreneurial skills
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-10-02)We assess the allocative importance of education when workers can choose to self-employ. To do so, we build a model combining educational choices with the labor market and selfemployment. Education can increase workers' ... -
Iniciativa Latinoamericana del Cacao: Boletín No. 1
(CAF; Caracas, 2017-10)El Observatorio está concebido como un espacio de gestión del conocimiento que se desarrolla como parte del proyecto Iniciativa Latinoamericana del Cacao (ILAC) desarrollado por el Programa de Biodiversidad/Unidad de ... -
Encuesta CAF 2017: trayectorias laborales y productivas en América Latina
(CAF, 2017-10-01)La encuesta recoge información demográfica y socioeconómica de los encuestados y un conjunto de características a nivel del hogar. Contiene módulos generales que se realizan todos los años y ofrecen mediciones de acceso, ... -
SOMOS muchos, seamos más
(CAF; Bogotá, 2017-09-29)SOMOS es una iniciativa de CAF enfocada en el uso del fútbol como herramienta educativa de desarrollo e inclusión que agrupa a organizaciones deportivas con enfoque social, las cuales fomentan el aprendizaje de habilidades ... -
Caficultores entre dos mares, protegiendo los recursos naturales mediante la agricultura sustentable
(CAF; Caracas, 2017-09-27)El Canal de Panamá es una importante obra de ingeniería y constituye una infraestructura clave para el comercio internacional. El 6% de todo el comercio mundial pasa por el canal, lo que representa cerca de USD 127.000 ... -
What explains output recoveries in developing and emerging market economies after the global financial crisis?
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-09-26)This paper presents a systematic assessment of the macroeconomic factors associated with differences in GDP dynamics in emerging markets in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. We implement a Bayesian Model ... -
RED 2017. Urban growth and access to opportunities: a challenge for Latin America
(CAF; Bogotá, 2017-09-14)This report seeks to understand the most critical development challenges currently faced by Latin American cities. Special attention is given to the concept of accessibility, that is, the capacity of households and firms ...
