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    Nature: poor people's wealth, the importance of natural resources in poverty eradication

    Friends of the Earth International, 2005
    This publication by Friends of the Earth International describes the direct link between environmental degradation and rural poverty. The critical importance of natural resources for rural communities is illustrated in this overview article, with clear examples of the resource plights of impoverished communities.
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    FDI and growth: a causal relationship

    World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2005
    This paper examines the causal relationship between Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and economic growth by using an innovative econometric methodology to study the direction of causality between the two variables.
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    Communities can create their own water supply and sanitation

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
    Urban communities in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Angola are creating – and funding – their own water supply and sanitation services. Partnered with local governments they are covering large areas at much lower costs than conventional projects. To meet the Millennium target of sustainable access to safe drinking water, international agencies need to learn how to support such innovations.
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    Gendered implications of tax reform in Latin America: Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, and Jamaica

    United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2005
    In the context of Latin American and Caribbean countries, this paper proposes that the most effective means for reducing class- and gender-based poverty and inequality is citizenship-based entitlements to basic (i.e.
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    Testing real business cycle models in an emerging economy

    Banco Central de Chile / Central Bank of Chile, 2004
    One of the most dynamic areas of macroeconomic research in recent decades is that of real business cycle (RBC) models. Although RBC models have been successfully applied to developed economies, their ability to replicate the data of emerging countries remains largely unexplored.
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    A toolkit for analyzing alternative policies in the Chilean economy

    Banco Central de Chile / Central Bank of Chile, 2004
    There is no consensus regarding the interaction of economic conditions and policy. In fact, while several academic papers try to identify the effects of alternative policies, most of the results found remain inconclusive. The understanding and measurement of the quantitative effects of monetary policy are essential for evaluating the relative merits of alternative policy arrangements.
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    Imperfect labour mobility, urban unemployment and agricultural trade reform in Chile

    Banco Central de Chile / Central Bank of Chile, 2005
    Agricultural trade policy reform raises a number of concerns. First, the presence of significant rural-urban income divergence resulting in rural-urban migration caused faster urban population growth and the emergence of high levels of urban unemployment.
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    Private services deliver water and sanitation in Chile

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
    Chile has been a pioneer in the practice of privatisation since the mid 1980s. The partial privatisation of the water and sanitation sector began in 1998, several years after the sector was reorganised by the state. Four years on, a study compares the performance of the private and state-owned companies.
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    General equilibrium dynamics of external shocks and policy changes in Chile

    Banco Central de Chile / Central Bank of Chile, 2004
    This paper explores Chile’s macroeconomic dynamics with the help of a general equilibrium model parameterized for the Chilean economy where the economy’s short-term equilibrium depends on the current and anticipated future paths of policy and external variables.The model introduces realistic features—such as short-run wage rigidities and a group of myopic agents—that generate deviations from th
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    Inflation targeting: an overview

    Banco Central de Chile / Central Bank of Chile, 2004
    By the end of the 1980’s, empirical evidence indicated that the negative effects of high and variable inflation on macroeconomic stability, economic growth and income distribution largely outweigh the potential benefits derived from financing fiscal deficits through monetisation.

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