 | Crypto Assets and CBDCs in Latin America and the Caribbean: Opportunities and Risks Author/Editor: Maximiliano Appendino, Olga Bespalova, Rina Bhattacharya, Jean François Clevy, Nan Geng, Takuji Komatsuzaki, Justin Lesniak, Weicheng Lian, Sandra Marcelino, Mauricio Villafuerte, Yorbol Yakhshilikov. Release Date:February, 2023 After providing a general overview of the nature, pros, and cons of crypto assets and CBDCs, this paper focuses on documenting their recent experience in LAC. The region records a high interest in more...
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 | How to Mitigate the Impact of Economic Downturns on Labor Markets: Evidence from Nicaragua Author/Editor: Sandra Marcelino, Mariana Sans. Release Date:February, 2023 This paper studies the drivers of the labor market performance in Nicaragua with a particular focus on informality, to identify vulnerable groups during economic downturns; and estimates the speed of more...
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 | Does Lower Debt Buy Higher Growth? The Impact of Debt Relief Initiatives on Growth Author/Editor: Sandra Marcelino, Ivetta Hakobyan. Release Date:December, 2014 In 1996, the IMF and the World Bank introduced the Heavily Indebted Poor CountriesInitiative—a comprehensive debt relief program aimed at reducing the external debtburden of eligible countries to more...
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