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    Financial structure in Chile: macroeconomic developments and microeconomic effects

    Banco Central de Chile / Central Bank of Chile, 2000
    The objectives of this paper are to describe the developments in Chilean financial markets at the macroeconomic level and examine their effects at the level of firms.The document emphasises comparisons between banking and capital markets in an attempt to answer the question of whether the financial system in Chile has become bank-based or marketbased.
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    Household structure, gender, and the economic determinants of school attendance in Argentina

    Gendernet, World Bank, 1999
    The focus on educational policies is a key element for both the government of Argentina and the opposition so the relevant question is not whether, but how to invest more in education.This paper explores the role played by household structure and gender on the decision to send children to school in Argentina by examining the determinants of the education patterns of boys and girls based on the
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    Inflation targeting in Latin America

    Banco Central de Chile / Central Bank of Chile, 2001
    This paper analyses Latin America's recent experience with the use of inflation targeting (IT)in the light of the region's progress toward eradicating high inflation.
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    Does inflation targeting make a difference?

    Banco Central de Chile / Central Bank of Chile, 2001
    This document examines some of the successful results experienced by Inflation Targetters (ITers) in meeting their inflation targets (ITs) in the light of the following seven questions: how successful have countries been in reducing inflation?how costly has disinflation been under IT?does IT improve the ability to predict inflation?does the behaviour of the macroeconomy change
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    A decade lost and found: Mexico and Chile in the 1980s

    Banco Central de Chile / Central Bank of Chile, 2001
    This paper analyzes four possible explanations for the reasons why Chile recovered much faster from the severe economic crises in the early 1980s than did Mexico.
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    Performance-based payment to improve the impact of health services: evidence from Haiti

    Flagship Programme on Health Sector Reform and Sustainable Financing, World Bank, 2001
    This article emphasises that holding health institutions accountable for achieving explicitly defined results by linking reimbursement to results can be a powerful strategy to improve health system performance.The article finds that in Haiti, USAID introduced performance-based payment as the mechanism to pay nongovernmental organizations after a population-based survey identified poor performa
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    One decade of inflation targeting in the world: what do we know and what do we need to know?

    Banco Central de Chile / Central Bank of Chile, 2001
    This paper provides a brief review of the main design features of 18 inflation targeting experiences in industrial and emerging economies and gives a statistical analysis as to whether countries under inflation targeting are structurally different from noninflation targeting industrial countries.The paper also addresses: existing evidence about the success of inflation targetingthe
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    Banking, financial integration, and international crises: an overview

    Banco Central de Chile / Central Bank of Chile, 2001
    This document offers a summary of new research on the relationship among institutions, financial development, economic growth, financial integration, and the likelihood of boom-bust cycles and banking crises. The paper shows that it is becoming increasingly difficult and costly for emerging market economies to oppose international financial integration.
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    International Trade Statistics, 2001

    International Trade Statistics, 2001
    Growth in world merchandise trade is expected to slow in volume terms to only 2% in 2001 — compared with 12% in 2000. Even this growth is not assured given the present great uncertainties about economic and trade developmentsTrade in Western Europe and the transition economies is expected to increase somewhat more than 2%, while that of North America is likely to be below the global average.
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    The World Bank's experience with post-conflict reconstruction

    Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 1999
    Assessment of the Bank's experience in post-conflict reconstruction, in Bosnia-Herzegovina, El Salvador, Uganda, Cambodia, Eritrea, Haiti, Lebanon, Rwanda, and Sri Lanka.

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