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Blog Post
November 27, 2013
New uncertainties come to the fore now that the global economy, after six years of turmoil, is showing signs of a return to a more normal situation, where real interest rates in the United States turn positive and commodity prices stabilize at a somewhat lower level, due to a cooling of red-hot dema...
Dec
3
2013
10:30—12:00 PM
November 18, 2013
Latin America has benefited in recent years from an unprecedented and prolonged episode of extremely low interest rates in the US and other high-income economies. Most Wall Street analysts and multilateral bank economists agree that, led by the US, this episode is coming to an end with return of wha...
Oct
23
2013
10:00—10:00 AM
October 17, 2013
The Honorable Sam Farr presents a briefing onPublic Health in Latin America. While Latin America has made significant advances in public health, the burden of disease and inadequate care remains prevalent across the region. Children from low-income homes are five times more likely to die before thei...
Blog Post
October 02, 2013
Argentina is a highly decentralized federal country, where more than 70% of public spending on health happens sub-nationally by independent provincial governments. Since budgetary transfers between levels of government have no conditions attached, the federal government has often struggled to influe...
Sep
18
2013
9:00—10:30 AM
September 06, 2013
Since 2004, the Government of Argentina has run an innovative results-based financing program --Plan Nacer--aimed at providing basic health insurance to two million uninsured pregnant women and children, while creating incentives to provinces and health service providers to expand coverage of key se...
Blog Post
September 03, 2013
It’s been a tough few months for emerging-market currencies. The top slider, India’s rupee, has fallen 20 percent against the US dollar. The Indonesian rupiah and the Brazilian real have fallen about 15 percent; Turkey’s lira is down about 10. As the currencies fall, so d...
Multimedia
August 09, 2013
In the context of ongoing volatility in international capital markets, including from the expected increase in interest rates by the Fed, Senior Fellow Liliana Rojas-Suarez highlighted Latin America’s vulnerabilities to external financial shocks and presented a proposal to mitigate...
WORKING PAPERS
August 08, 2013
In this paper we identify a group of people in Latin America and other developing countries that are not poor but not middle class either. We define them as the vulnerable “strugglers”, people living in households with daily income per capita between $4 and $10 (at constant 2005 PPP doll...