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    Microfinance market trends in Latin America and the Caribbean 2008-2013

    Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo / Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), 2014
    This report uses a sample which includes data from 58 institutions from December 31 of each year between 2008 and 2013, representing 59% of the total borrowers and 62% of the gross loan portfolio of the region regularly reporting to MIX. All the data is available in a spreadsheet that can be downloaded from the MIX website.
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    Informality and inclusive growth

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2015
    This paper is a working document, and the first stage in the conduct of a joint research in the topic of informality and inclusive growth. The research will study the cases of Colombia and South Africa and analyse to what extent these lessons can be applied to other countries in Africa and Latin America.
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    Local Content Frameworks in Latin American and African oil and gas sector

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2015
    The limited nature of mineral resources and demands of the extractive sector require policymakers to find mechanisms to maximise the sector’s benefits.
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    Work, family and public policy changes in Latin America: equity, maternalism and co-responsibility

    United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2014
    Taking account of the substantial increase in female labour market participation that has occurred throughout the Latin American region, this article describes policies adopted with the aim of reconciling work and family responsibilities between 2003 and 2013, and the implications of their design for socioeconomic and gender equity.
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    5 years in Juntos: new evidence on the Program’s short and long-term impacts

    Centro de Investigaciones Sociólogicas Económicas Políticas y Antropológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2013
    his study presents results from a quantitative impact evaluation of the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programme, Juntos, in Peru. Using instrumental variable techniques, it estimates the overall impact of Juntos five years after its initial rollout and explores the differential impacts among beneficiaries according to the length of time they spent in the programme.
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    Conditions for success in implementing CCT programs: lessons for Asia from Latin America and the Caribbean

    Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo / Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), 2014
    Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs have become the main social assistance interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), reaching 129 million individuals in 18 countries in 2010.
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    FIELD Brief 18: Increasing impact with savings-linked conditional cash transfers – experiences from Latin America

    microLINKS,, 2012
    Government social protection programs in 30 countries provide conditional cash transfers (CCTs) to economically disadvantaged families who meet certain requirements (conditions), such as sending their children to school regularly, participating in nutrition programs, and visiting health clinics.
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    Social efficiency in Peruvian microfinance institutions: a semi-parametric approach

    2014
    Social efficiency refers to the capacity of MFIs to produce more social outputs — number of poor clients and women served — without using more resources. This study aims to assess the social efficiency of microfinance institutions (MFIs) —regulated and non-regulated— in Peru.
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    Transparency of tax expenditure reporting in Mexico

    2014
    Currently, there is no single, universally accepted definition of a tax expenditure. The terms tax benefit, tax incentive, tax concession, fiscal stimulus, and tax break are more commonly used. Although each government defines the technical term tax expenditure according to the particularities of its tax scheme, it is possible to identify some common characteristics.
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    Strengthening the capacities of parliaments in the budget process

    Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo / Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), 2013
    In the past decade, parliaments have shown increasing activism in the budget process by demanding more information about the government's performance in managing public resources. Nevertheless, in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), parliaments face important challenges, taking an effective part in the budget process and in fiscal policy management.

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