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  • Medium-Term Frameworks and the Budgetary Process in Latin America. A Database: 2003-2007
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    By Department of Research and Chief Economist (VPS/RES/RES)
    Medium Term Fiscal Frameworks (MTFs) have become one of the most popular reforms to the budgetary process in Latin America during the last decade, and introducing MTFs seemed to be the magic solution for most fiscal ailments. Nonetheless, there has been no comprehensive evaluation of their impact. This document discusses the normative merits of using MTFs, provides a characterization of the different types of MTF, and describes their development in the Latin American region based on extensive field work. As a first approximation for understanding how they are working, this document explores in detail the cases of Argentina, Colombia and Peru. While an unambiguous diagnosis is not possible, this document lays the groundwork for progress toward comprehensive impact evaluations and, eventually, to the consolidation of MTFs in the region.
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    Geographic coverage Argentina · Bolivia · Brazil ...

    Temporal coverage 2003-2007

    Published date 2015-03-04

  • Database for Revelation of Expectations in Latin America (REVELA): 2006-2010
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    By Department of Research and Chief Economist (VPS/RES/RES)
    This database for Revelation of Expectations in Latin America (REVELA) was updated to March 2009. It includes data on inflation, growth, fiscal deficit, interest rate and other variables for each country in Latin America and the Caribbean from 2006 to 2010.
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    Geographic coverage Brazil · Chile · Colombia ...

    Temporal coverage 2006-2015

    Published date 2009-01-03

  • RAIS industry level Data associated with: Access to Credit and the Size of the Formal Sector in Brazil
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    By Department of Research and Chief Economist (VPS/RES/RES)
    This file contains the distribution of firm size at the industry level for formal firms in Brazil.
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    Geographic coverage Brazil

    Temporal coverage 2003-2010

    Published date 2015-03-04

  • Tax Reforms in Latin America in an Era of Democracy. A Database (2014 Update)
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    By Department of Research and Chief Economist (VPS/RES/RES)
    This document presents the codebook for a novel database of tax reforms for Latin America between 1990 and 2004 using the Worldwide Tax Summaries of PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC). The constraint we face is the interruption of the publication of our main source of information, the PriceWaterhouseCoopers International Tax Summaries, in 2005. This database can be used for studying the political economy of tax reforms in Latin America as it is shown in the accompanying paper “Tax Reforms in Latin America in an Era of Democracy”. Table 1 summarizes all the reforms that have been coded and that are in the accompanying stata dta file. Table 2 presents the detailed reforms.
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    Geographic coverage Argentina · Bolivia · Brazil ...

    Temporal coverage 1990-2004

    Published date 2015-03-04

  • Tables and Figures for: Is there a Caribbean sclerosis?: stagnating economic growth in the Caribbean
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    By Country Department Caribbean Group (VPC/CCB/CCB)
    This dataset was created to support 2014 Is There a Caribbean Sclerosis? Stagnating Economic Growth in the Caribbean on the following topics: economic growth, small economies, caribbean, productivity, competitiveness, macroeconomic instability. This report addresses several critical questions regarding Caribbean nations. Does size matter for economic growth and volatility? To what degree has Caribbean economic growth been inferior to that of ROSE? What could account for the Caribbean growth gap and what economic policies might decision-makers adopt to promote higher and sustainable growth?. The central focus is on six countries in the region, which will be referred to as the C6: The Bahamas, Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago. However, the analysis will sometimes include, most often in the aggregate, the countries of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS). The six members of the OECS used in this report are Antigua and Barbuda, the Commonwealth...
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    Geographic coverage Antigua and Barbuda · Bahamas · Barbados ...

    Temporal coverage 2000-2011

    Published date 2015-07-01