Gary S. Fields, Guillermo Cruces, David Jaume, Mariana Viollaz - UNU-WIDER, 2018 - Helsinki, Finland
Some questions have been present since the very first days of development economics but have gained increased attention in recent years: Has economic growth resulted in gains in standards of living and reductions in poverty via improved labor market conditions? How do the rate and character of...
Guillermo Cruces, Gary S. Fields, David Jaume, Mariana Viollaz - Oxford University Press, 2017
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This book examines the links between economic growth, changing employment...
Guillermo Cruces, Gary S. Fields, David Jaume, Mariana Viollaz - UNU-WIDER, 2015 - Helsinki, Finland
Argentina experienced a decline in the early years of the 2000s, from 2000 to 2002, in GDP and in most labour market indicators, followed by improvements in nearly all of them, tracing out a U-shaped pattern. The international crisis of 2008 impacted negatively only on the unemployment rate and...
Rocio Garcia-Diaz, Daniel Prudencio - UNU-WIDER, 2015 - Helsinki, Finland
Understanding chronic poverty and its evolution is complex given the amount of information involved. This paper proposes a new approach to analysing the evolution of chronic poverty in a multivariate setting using a Shapley decomposition of a multidimensional chronic poverty measure proposed by...
Sebastian Galiani, Ernesto Schargrodsky - UNU-WIDER, 2011 - Helsinki, Finland
We study the effects of titles on parcel valuation and urban land market development (real estate transfers, rentals, and mortgages), and the dynamics of deregularization by exploiting a natural experiment in the allocation of land titles to very poor families in a suburban area of Buenos Aires,...
Tony Addison - UNU-WIDER, 2011 - Helsinki, Finland
Tony Addison
A visit to Buenos Aires in September provided a good vantage point to look at the euro zone’s deepening crisis. Angle readers will recall that Argentina went through a painful adjustment process some ten years ago. This culminated in the peso being forced off its peg to the...
Cynthia Goytia, Ricardo Pasquini, Pablo Sanguinetti - UNU-WIDER, 2011 - Helsinki, Finland
This study examines the programme Redes Solidarias, a public-private initiative that connected to natural pipelined gas 4,000 households in the Great Buenos Aires Area during 2005. The main features of the institutional framework are described and the main results of an impact estimation analysis...
– Lessons from the Role of the Urban Sector in Argentina
Michael Cohen - UNU-WIDER, 2011 - Helsinki, Finland
International narratives on Argentina’s recovery from the crisis of 2001-02 tend to emphasize the role of rising commodity prices and growing demand from China. Argentina is said to have been ‘lucky’, saved by global demand for its agricultural exports. The international narrative...
Alice H. Amsden - UNU-WIDER, 2010 - Helsinki, Finland
An elite derives its status from its relationship to property, whether physical or human capital. While stable property rights are necessary for everyday business, unstable property rights that result in major institutional changes (such as land reform) may have a positive impact on economic...
Lucio Castro, Daniel Saslavsky - UNU-WIDER, 2008 - Helsinki, Finland
For many in Latin America, the increasing participation of China and India in international markets is seen as a looming shadow of two ‘mighty giants’ on the region’s manufacturing sector. Are they really mighty giants when it comes to their impact on manufacturing employment?...
Gary S. Fields, Maria Laura Sánchez Puerta - UNU-WIDER, 2008 - Helsinki, Finland
In recent years, the economy of Argentina has experienced both rapid economic growth and severe economic decline. In this paper, we use a series of one-year long panels to study who gained the most in pesos when the economy grew and who lost the most in pesos when the economy contracted. To answer...
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