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    By Fiscal Management Division (VPS/IFD/FMM)
    Public Administration at a Glance: Latin America and the Caribbean is the second edition of a joint publication between the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). The publication provides readers with a key set of indicators designed to inform policy design and establish benchmarks for specific interventions. This specialized data set covers a range of indicators in the areas of public finances and public employment.
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    By Department of Research and Chief Economist (VPS/RES/RES)
    Commonly used datasets on the level of public debt provide incomplete country and period coverage. This paper presents a new dataset that includes complete series of central government debt for 89 countries over the 1991-2005 period and for seven other countries for the 1993-2005 period.
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    By Department of Research and Chief Economist (VPS/RES/RES)
    Macro bilateral trade data. This dataset was created to support Trade Intensity and Business Cycle Synchronization.
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    By Department of Research and Chief Economist (VPS/RES/RES)
    This dataset compiles publicly available data that proxies for the quality of the public policies that affect productivity at the national level, along with proxies for the articulation and characteristics of interest groups. It complements another dataset by the authors and Berkman et al. (2008) on the features of public policies.
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    By Fiscal Management Division (VPS/IFD/FMM)
    This database is an ongoing effort to update official fiscal data by the Bank and the Inter-American Center of Tax Administrations, and with the collaboration of OECD and ECLAC. The Equivalent Fiscal Pressure indicator makes use of a methodology that better reflects the particularities of the mobilization of fiscal resources in the region, and consists of three elements: 1) Traditional tax collection, which includes all taxes and fees levied at all levels of government; 2) Compulsory social security contributions, whether public or private, mostly to pension and health systems; and 3) Non-tax revenues derived from the exploitation of natural resources, whether renewable or not; i.e., fees, royalties, dividends paid and net profits from public enterprises. The information is presented broken down by type of tax at every level of government. The series are adjusted with updated GDP values for each country and information that becomes available for municipalities and social security,...
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