Pub Date : 2018-12-01DOI: 10.1186/S40503-019-0075-3
Rosangela Bando
{"title":"Evidence-based gender equality policy and pay in Latin America and the Caribbean: progress and challenges","authors":"Rosangela Bando","doi":"10.1186/S40503-019-0075-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/S40503-019-0075-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43785,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Economic Review","volume":"29 1","pages":"1-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78977733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-12-01DOI: 10.1007/S40503-017-0047-4
Sebastian Galiani, Paulo Somaini
{"title":"Path-dependent import-substitution policies: the case of Argentina in the twentieth century","authors":"Sebastian Galiani, Paulo Somaini","doi":"10.1007/S40503-017-0047-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/S40503-017-0047-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43785,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Economic Review","volume":"27 1","pages":"1-53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77373943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-12-01DOI: 10.1186/S40503-019-0081-5
L. Jaitman
{"title":"Frontiers in the economics of crime: lessons for Latin America and the Caribbean","authors":"L. Jaitman","doi":"10.1186/S40503-019-0081-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/S40503-019-0081-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43785,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Economic Review","volume":"36 1","pages":"1-36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79800478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Martín Caruso Bloeck, Sebastian Galiani, F. Weinschelbaum
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, informality in Latin America and the Caribbean is a primary obstacle to carry out means testing income-support programs, and countries in the region have therefore mostly relied on proxy means testing mechanisms. This paper studies the relative effectiveness of these and other mechanisms by way of a formal model in which workers choose between job opportunities in the formal and informal sectors. Although the means testing mechanism allows for a more pro-poor design of transfers, it distorts labor decisions made by workers. On the other hand, (exogenous) proxy means testing does not cause distortions, but its pro-poor quality is constrained by the power of observable characteristics to infer income levels. However, since taxation is necessary to fund programs, redistribution becomes less effective, especially for programs other than means testing. The paper concludes by discussing the implications of these results for the design of more efficient targeting programs.
{"title":"Poverty alleviation strategies under informality: evidence for Latin America","authors":"Martín Caruso Bloeck, Sebastian Galiani, F. Weinschelbaum","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3277677","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3277677","url":null,"abstract":"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, informality in Latin America and the Caribbean is a primary obstacle to carry out means testing income-support programs, and countries in the region have therefore mostly relied on proxy means testing mechanisms. This paper studies the relative effectiveness of these and other mechanisms by way of a formal model in which workers choose between job opportunities in the formal and informal sectors. Although the means testing mechanism allows for a more pro-poor design of transfers, it distorts labor decisions made by workers. On the other hand, (exogenous) proxy means testing does not cause distortions, but its pro-poor quality is constrained by the power of observable characteristics to infer income levels. However, since taxation is necessary to fund programs, redistribution becomes less effective, especially for programs other than means testing. The paper concludes by discussing the implications of these results for the design of more efficient targeting programs.","PeriodicalId":43785,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Economic Review","volume":"18 1","pages":"1-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80473575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-10-05DOI: 10.1186/S40503-018-0059-8
C. Kollias, Suzanna‐Maria Paleologou, Panayiotis G. Tzeremes, Nickolaos G. Tzeremes
{"title":"The demand for military spending in Latin American countries","authors":"C. Kollias, Suzanna‐Maria Paleologou, Panayiotis G. Tzeremes, Nickolaos G. Tzeremes","doi":"10.1186/S40503-018-0059-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/S40503-018-0059-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43785,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Economic Review","volume":"6 6 1","pages":"1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2018-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88653027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-10-05DOI: 10.1186/S40503-018-0057-X
Carlos A Ibarra
{"title":"Asymmetric real-exchange-rate effects on capital accumulation: evidence from non-linear ARDL models for Mexico","authors":"Carlos A Ibarra","doi":"10.1186/S40503-018-0057-X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/S40503-018-0057-X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43785,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Economic Review","volume":"45 1","pages":"1-24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2018-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88599003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-10-01DOI: 10.1186/S40503-018-0060-2
G. Cuadra, Manuel Ramos-Francia, Santiago García-Verdú
{"title":"On the role of financial aid in a default episode","authors":"G. Cuadra, Manuel Ramos-Francia, Santiago García-Verdú","doi":"10.1186/S40503-018-0060-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/S40503-018-0060-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43785,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Economic Review","volume":"10 1","pages":"1-19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83578569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
I examine the contribution of institutional breakdowns to long-run development, drawing on Argentina’s unique departure from a rich country on the eve of World War I to an underdeveloped one today. The empirical strategy is based on building a counterfactual scenario to examine the path of Argentina’s long-run development in the absence of breakdowns, assuming it would follow the institutional trends in countries at parallel stages of development. Drawing on Argentina’s large historical bibliography, I have identified the institutional breakdowns and coded for the period 1850–2012. The synthetic control and difference-in-differences estimates here suggest that, in the absence of institutional breakdowns, Argentina would largely have avoided the decline and joined the ranks of rich countries with an income level similar to that of New Zealand.
{"title":"The rise and fall of Argentina","authors":"R. Spruk","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3242408","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3242408","url":null,"abstract":"I examine the contribution of institutional breakdowns to long-run development, drawing on Argentina’s unique departure from a rich country on the eve of World War I to an underdeveloped one today. The empirical strategy is based on building a counterfactual scenario to examine the path of Argentina’s long-run development in the absence of breakdowns, assuming it would follow the institutional trends in countries at parallel stages of development. Drawing on Argentina’s large historical bibliography, I have identified the institutional breakdowns and coded for the period 1850–2012. The synthetic control and difference-in-differences estimates here suggest that, in the absence of institutional breakdowns, Argentina would largely have avoided the decline and joined the ranks of rich countries with an income level similar to that of New Zealand.","PeriodicalId":43785,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Economic Review","volume":"92 1","pages":"1-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2018-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83829890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-06-01DOI: 10.1186/S40503-018-0061-1
G. Cruces, Guido Porto, Mariana Viollaz
{"title":"Trade liberalization and informality in Argentina: exploring the adjustment mechanisms","authors":"G. Cruces, Guido Porto, Mariana Viollaz","doi":"10.1186/S40503-018-0061-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/S40503-018-0061-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43785,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Economic Review","volume":"52 1","pages":"1-29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86365225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-02-02DOI: 10.1007/S40503-017-0048-3
Facundo Alvaredo, G. Cruces, L. Gasparini
{"title":"A short episodic history of income distribution in Argentina","authors":"Facundo Alvaredo, G. Cruces, L. Gasparini","doi":"10.1007/S40503-017-0048-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/S40503-017-0048-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43785,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Economic Review","volume":"118 1","pages":"1-45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2018-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77382807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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