Listagem por autor "Barberia, Lorena Guadalupe"
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Distributive politics in Latin América: the impact of democracy, eletions and globalization on the welfare state
2008-06-06This dissertation is focused on examining two developments of great consequence in Latin America in the three last decades of the 20th century. It tests theories of distributive politics by examining the effects of democracy ... -
Do political budget cycles differ in Latin American democracies?
2010We test for political budget cycles in a panel of eighteen Latin American democracies from 1973 to 2008. Recent studies have argued that the pattern of deficit cycles in a large cross-section of countries is driven by the ... -
Evaluating and disseminating experiences in local economic development: Brazil BNPP research
2006-05With the advancement of democratization, the decentralization of policy decisions in developing countries, mainly in Latin America, became a feasible goal. With macroeconomic stabilization, particularly the drastic reduction ... -
Governance in managing public health resources in brazilian municipalities
2014-09This study contributes to the health governance discussion by presenting a new data set that allows for comparisons of the management of health resources among Brazilian municipalities. Research on Brazil is particularly ... -
Local economic development: theory, evidence, and implications for policy in Brazil
2010-11Local economic development policies have surged in Brazil over the past decade a major shift in this regionally diverse country of 27 states, over 5000 municipalities, and the largest economy in Latin America. We review ... -
Local economic development: theory, evidence, and implications for policy in Brazil
2008Local economic development policies have surged in Brazil over the past decade—a major shift in this regionally diverse country of 27 states, over 5,000 municipalities, and the largest economy in Latin America. We review ... -
Opportunistic political cycles and social spending: an examination of transition and consolidated democracies in Latin America
2009In this paper, we show that education, health and social security expenditures did not increase during elections. Based on a panel of fifteen Latin American democracies from 1973 to 2000, we show that there are important ... -
Political budget cycles and democratization in Latin America, 1973-2008
2010We test for political budget cycles in a panel of eighteen Latin American democracies from 1973 to 2008. Recent studies have argued that the pattern of deficit cycles in a large cross-section of countries is driven by the ... -
Social spending and elections: an examination of Latin American third wave democracies, 1980-2008
2011-08During the period in which Latin America underwent the most lasting and widespread wave of democratization, we test whether governments targeted increases in social spending to coincide with presidential elections in a ...
