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Blog Post
December 12, 2024
In poorer countries examples of real success are few and far between, but one contender in recent years has been the city of Sobral in the state of Ceará in Brazil. Despite being a poorer region of the country, Sobral and Ceará shot up the ranking on domestic tests. A World Bank report from 2020 hai...
Blog Post
November 27, 2024
This week, President-elect Trump said he would impose a 25 percent tariff on all goods coming from Mexico and Canada, effectively disregarding the North American free trade agreement (USMCA) that he made a priority to renegotiate in his first term. The USMCA has a review clause where the three count...
POLICY PAPERS
October 15, 2024
This paper addresses a critical flaw in the international financial system: the failure to address the inherent asymmetry between countries that issue reserve currencies and those that do not, leaving the latter vulnerable during systemic liquidity crises. We propose an IMF-managed Emerging Market F...
WORKING PAPERS
October 10, 2024
This paper presents findings from a comprehensive survey of 18 central banks and banking supervisor authorities in Latin America and the Caribbean, including major economies like Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico. The survey aimed to assess the adoption of the Basel III standards across...
Blog Post
July 09, 2024
Gender data is needed to gauge the extent to which financial services include and benefit women. However, sex-disaggregated data that tracks access to and use of financial services is still hard to come by, and it is especially rare to have country-level data that captures the universe of financial ...
CGD NOTES
July 08, 2024
Health benefits packages in Colombia have evolved over the past 30 years. Coverage changed from two explicit health benefits packages (with benefits linked to ability to contribute) to an implicit approach that covers, in theory, everything for everyone, excluding a narrow negative list of services ...
Blog Post
July 08, 2024
Colombia embarked on a major health sector reform in 1993, introducing a mandatory universal social health insurance system and a priority-setting system featuring a health benefits package (HBP). This HBP defined which interventions were covered by the system, whom it was for, and at what costs. In...
WORKING PAPERS
June 12, 2024
Latin America is often regarded as an “economic failure,” a region prone to crises, with high inflation and other symptoms of macroeconomic instability. But that picture is largely one of the past. Analyzing six areas of macroeconomic management and eight macroeconomic outcomes, this paper shows the...
Blog Post
June 05, 2024
Addressing the unprecedented levels of irregular migration requires a fundamental shift in understanding the problem: People come whenever there are jobs to be filled in the American economy. It is true today, and it has been true for decades. That is main finding from my new study analyzing nearly ...