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6604: On the Credibility of Inflation Targeting Regimes in Latin America

Rodrigo Mariscal, Andrew Powell and Pilar Tavella

6603: State Capacity and the Quality of Policies: Revisiting the Relationship between Openness and the Size of Government

Maria Franco Chuaire, Carlos Scartascini and Mariano Tommasi

6596: The Effect of In-Service Teacher Training on Student Learning of English as a Second Language

Rosangela Bando and Xia Li

6595: Mind the Gap: Bridging the Perception and Reality of Crime Rates with Information

Martin Ardanaz, Ana Corbacho and Mauricio Ruiz-Vega

6570: The Health Impacts of Severe Climate Shocks in Colombia

Dolores de la Mata and Mauricio G. Valencia-Amaya

6568: Foreign Bank Behavior during Financial Crises

Jonathon Adams-Kane, Julian Caballero and Jamus Lim

6567: Assessing the Effects of Climate and Socioeconomic Factors on Vulnerability to Vector-Borne Diseases in Latin America

Rodrigo García Ayala and Andrés Estrugo

6566: Impacts of Climate Change on Dengue Risk in Brazil

Paula C. Pereda, Tatiane A. de Menezes and Denisard Alves

6561: Shelter from the Storm: Upgrading Housing Infrastructure in Latin American Slums

Sebastian Galiani, Paul Gertler, Ryan Cooper, Sebastian Martinez, Adam Ross and Raimundo Undurraga

6560: Land Accumulation Dynamics in Developing Country Agriculture

Heath Henderson, Leonardo Corral, Eric Simning and Paul Winters

6554: Is Business Saving Really None of Our Business?

Ricardo Bebczuk and Eduardo Cavallo

6553: Is the Eurozone on the Mend? Latin American Examples to Analyze the Euro Question

Eduardo Cavallo, Eduardo Fernandez-Arias and Andrew Powell

6546: The Socio-Economic Gradient of Child Development: Cross-Sectional Evidence from Children 6-42 Months In Bogota

Marta Rubio-Codina, Orazio P. Attanasio, Costas Meghir, Natalia Varela and Sally Grantham-McGregor

6537: Do Remittances Help Smooth Consumption During Health Shocks? Evidence From Jamaica

Diether Beuermann, Inder Ruprah and Ricardo Sierra

6516: The Effect of Credit on the Export Performance of Colombian Exporters

Danielken Molina and Mónica Roa

6515: Productivity, Exporting and Financial Constraints of Chinese SMEs

Johannes Van Biesebroeck

6514: Export Mix Changes and Firm Performance: Evidence from Chile

Roberto Alvarez and Andres Zahler

6506: Do Export Promotion Agencies Promote New Exporters?

Marcio Cruz

6497: Non-contributory pensions

Rosangela Bando, Paul Gertler and Sebastian Galiani

6494: Development Diagnostics for the Southern Cone

Eduardo Borensztein, Sebastian Miller, Gabriel Sánchez and Patricio Valenzuela

6487: Global boom, local impacts: Mining revenues and subnational outcomes in Peru 2007-2011

Omar Zambrano, Marcos Robles and Denisse Laos

6482: Remittances and the Impact on Crime in Mexico

Steve Brito, Ana Corbacho and Rene Osorio Rivas

6481: Public-Private Collaboration on Productive Development in Chile

Andres Zahler, Claudio Bravo Ortega, Daniel Goya and Jose Miguel Benavente

6451: Climate Change Impacts on Birth Outcomes in Brazil

Paula C. Pereda, Tatiane A. de Menezes and Denisard Alves

6446: Is Disaster Risk Reduction Spending Driven by the Occurrence of Natural Disasters? Evidence from Peru

Mauricio A. Vela and Sebastian Miller

6445: Inflation Targeting and Quantitative Tightening: Effects of Reserve Requirements in Peru

Adrián Armas, Paul Castillo and Marco Vega

6444: El impacto del apoyo al cluster de TIC de la ciudad argentina de Córdoba

Victoria Castillo, David Giuliodori, Alessandro Maffioli, Alejandro Rodríguez, Sofía Rojo and Rodolfo Stucchi

6411: Public-Private Collaboration on Productive Development Policies in Colombia

Marcela Eslava, Marcela Meléndez Arjona and Guillermo Perry

6410: Public-Private Collaboration on Productive Development Policies in Argentina

Ricardo Rozemberg, Daniela Ramos, Andrés López, Juan Hallak, Andrea Gonzalez and Roberto Bisang

6405: Public-Private Collaboration on Productive Development in Uruguay

Macarena González, Carlos Bianchi, Andrés Rius and Lucía Pittaluga

6394: Inflation Targeting in Colombia, 2002-2012

Miguel Urrutia, Marc Hofstetter and Franz Hamann

6393: Public-Private Collaboration on Productive Development Policies in Costa Rica

Jorge Cornick, Jorge Jimenez and Marcela Román

6379: Taxation and Economic Growth in Colombia

Roberto Steiner

6335: Towards a "New" Inflation Targeting Framework: The Case of Uruguay

Martin Sola and Martín González Rozada

6334: Central Bank Liquidity Management and "Unconventional" Monetary Policies

Enrique Kawamura and Javier García-Cicco

6305: The Integration Movement in the Caribbean at Crossroads: Towards a New Approach of Integration

Uziel Nogueira

6304: Las relaciones de comercio e inversión entre Colombia y Venezuela

Eglé Iturbe de Blanco

6303: MERCOSUL e Comércio Agropecuário

Ives Chaloult and Guillermo Hillcoat

6301: The Use of Subsidies to Achieve Efficient Resource Allocation in Upland Watersheds

Darrell L. Hueth

6300: Economic Analysis of the Environmental Aspects of Investment Projects

William J. Vaughan and Sergio Ardila

6298: Household Water Demand Estimation

Miguel Bacharach and William J. Vaughan

6297: Government Policies Affecting Forests in Latin America: An Agenda for Discussion

Jan G. Laarman

6296: Salud y productividad en el Perú: Un análisis empírico por género y región

Rafael Cortez

6295: Political Stabilization Cycles in High Inflation Economies

Ernesto Stein and Jorge Streb

6294: Achieving Stability in Latin American Financial Markets in the Presence of Volatile Capital Flows

Liliana Rojas-Suarez and Steven R. Weisbrod

6293: Medición de las Condiciones de Vida

Diana Alarcón González

6292: Varieties of Capital-Market Crises

Guillermo Calvo

6291: Inflows of Capital to Developing Countries in the 1990s: Causes and Effects

Guillermo Calvo, Leonardo Leiderman and Carmen Reinhart

6225: Testing the Hypothesis of Collusive Behavior Among Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Members

Antonio Spilimbergo

6224: Servicios de desarrollo empresarial: Un esquema de análisis

Lara Goldmark

6223: Business Development Services: A Framework for Analysis

Lara Goldmark

6222: Promoción y reestructuración de pequeñas y medianas empresas en Canadá, España, Italia y Japón: Temas para el debate en América Latina

Ricardo Domínguez

6221: Electric Power Sector Reform in Latin America and the Caribbean

Manuel Dussan

6220: Financial Intermediation and Policy-Based Lending: Policy Recommendations for Latin America and the Caribbean

Antonio Vives and Kim B. Staking

6219: Choosing Environmental Policy Tools: Theoretical Cautions and Practical Considerations

Clifford S. Russell and Philip Powell

6218: Una estrategia para fomentar y facilitar una mejor ordenación de los recursos hídricos en América Latina y el Caribe

William B. Lord, Morris Israel and Douglas Kenney

6217: Policy Instruments and Financing Mechanisms for the Sustainable Use of Forests in Latin America

Ramon Lopez

6216: La legislación laboral en el proceso de reformas estructurales de América Latina y el Caribe

Eduardo Lora and Carmen Pages

6215: Fragmentación e Incentivos en los Sistemas de Atención de la Salud en América Latina y el Caribe

Daniel Maceira

6214: ¿Qué se ha aprendido del sistema de pensiones en Argentina, Colombia, Chile y Perú?

Ulpiano Ayala

6213: Growth and Trade: The North can Lose

Antonio Spilimbergo

6212: Managing Banking Crises in Latin America: The Do's and Don'ts of Successful Bank Restructuring Programs

Liliana Rojas-Suarez and Steven R. Weisbrod

6211: Exchange-Rate-Based Stabilization with Endogenous Fiscal Response

Ernesto Talvi

6210: The Welfare Implications of Trading Blocs among Countries with Different Endowments

Antonio Spilimbergo and Ernesto Stein

6209: Banking Crises in Latin America: Experience and Issues

Liliana Rojas-Suarez and Steven R. Weisbrod

6208: Reform and Growth in Latin America: all Pain, no Gain?

Peter Montiel and Eduardo Fernandez-Arias

6207: Illegal Immigration, Border Enforcement, and Relative Wages: Evidence from Apprehensions at the U.S.-Mexico Border

Gordon Hanson and Antonio Spilimbergo

6206: A Decade of Reform in Latin America: Has it Delivered Lower Volatility?

Michael Gavin

6205: A Decade of Structural Reforms in Latin America: What Has Been Reformed and How to Measure It

Eduardo Lora

6204: Saving Behavior in Latin America: Overview and Policy Issues

Michael Gavin, Ricardo Hausmann and Ernesto Talvi

6203: Financial Markets and the Behavior of Private Savings in Latin America

Liliana Rojas-Suarez and Steven R. Weisbrod

6202: Transition to a Functional Financial Safety Net in Latin America

Peter Garber

6201: How Should Financial Institutions and Markets be Structured?: Analysis and Options for Financial System Design

George G. Kaufman and Randall S. Kroszner

6200: Make or Buy?: Approaches to Financial Market Integration

Michael Gavin and Ricardo Hausmann

6199: Hacia un sistema de indicadores sociales

Robert Vos

6198: Structural Adjustment and Poverty in Bolivia

Robert Vos, Haeduck Lee and José Antonio Mejía-Guerra

6197: Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Inventory: 1980-95

José Antonio Mejía-Guerra and Robert Vos

6196: Educational Indicators: What's to Be Measured?

Robert Vos

6195: Towards an Effective Regulatory and Supervisory Framework for Latin America

Liliana Rojas-Suarez and Steven R. Weisbrod

6194: Savings in Chile: What Went Right?

Felipe Morandé

6193: Evolution and Rationality of Budget Institutions in Colombia

Rudolf Hommes

6192: Regulation, Deregulation and Modernization in Colombia

Rudolf Hommes

6191: Securing Stability and Growth in a Shock Prone Region: The Policy Challenge for Latin America

Ricardo Hausmann and Michael Gavin

6190: The Mexican Oil Boom: 1977-1985

Michael Gavin

6189: De-industrialization and Trade

Antonio Spilimbergo

6188: The Macroeconomics of Capital Flows to Latin America: Experience and Policy Issues

Michael Gavin, Ricardo Hausmann and Leonardo Leiderman

6187: Retos de economía política en los servicios de agua potable: El proceso de reforma en Perú

Macroconsult S.A., Gonzalo Tamayo, Alberto Bustamante, Elena Conterno and Roxana Barrantes

6186: Volatility, External Debt, and Fiscal Risk: Simulations of the Impact of Shocks on Fiscal Adjustment for Thirteen Latin American Countries

Kenneth Kletzer

6185: Fiscal Decentralization and Government Size in Latin America

Ernesto Stein and Jorge M. Streb

6184: Debt Management: Some Reflections Based on Argentina

Miguel A. Kiguel

6136: How Early Childhood Interventions Can Reduce Inequality: An Overview of Recent Findings

Ruthanne Deutsch

6135: Social Services Viewed Through New Lenses: Agency Problems in Education and Health in Latin America

William D. Savedoff

6134: Rights of Indigenous Groups over Natural Resources in Tropical Forests

Julio C. Tresierra

6133: Financing Forest Investments in Latin America: The Issue of Incentives

Olli Haltia and Kari Keipi

6132: A Review of the Use of Contingent Valuation Methods in Project Analysis at the Inter-American Development Bank

Sergio Ardila, Ricardo Quiroga and William J. Vaughan

6131: ¿Crisis real o crisis de expectativas?: El empleo en el Perú antes y después de las reformas estructurales

Jaime Saavedra-Chanduví

6130: Cancelando la hipoteca: Hiperinflación, reforma de la economía, empleo y desempleo en la Argentina de los 90

Juan Llach and Lucas Llach

6129: Rigidez Salarial, Precios Relativos y Ajuste Estructural: Una Interpretación del Desempleo en Uruguay

Julio De Brun and Gaston Labadie

6128: El Desempleo en América Latina y el Caribe a Mediados de los Años 90

Gustavo Márquez

6127: Pluralismo estructurado: Hacia un modelo innovador para la reforma de los sistemas de salud en América Latina

Juan Luis Londoño and Julio Frenk