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2. Hard Times in a Safe Haven: Protecting Venezuelan Migrants in Colombia
- Author:
- International Crisis Group
- Publication Date:
- 08-2022
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- International Crisis Group
- Abstract:
- In recent years, Venezuelans have streamed into Colombia looking for work and respite from their country’s socio-economic meltdown. But dangers also await them, including the clutches of organised crime. Bogotá’s change of government is a chance to reset policy to keep the migrants safer.
- Topic:
- Humanitarian Aid, Migration, Socioeconomics, and Migrants
- Political Geography:
- Colombia, South America, and Venezuela
3. Building back better after the COVID-19 pandemic
- Author:
- Miguel Jaramillo and Bruno Escobar
- Publication Date:
- 11-2021
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE)
- Abstract:
- In this policy-oriented paper, we provide a pre- and post-pandemic socioeconomic analysis of Peru, along with a financially sustainable five-year Building Back Better recovery plan, which emphasizes the urgency of addressing some of the country’s structural weaknesses. We underscore the importance of public investment for this effort, but widen the focus to include current public expenditure, in order to take steps towards building a more universal social protection system. We show that this also contributes to reducing the gender imbalances in the labor market that the pandemic exposed and exacerbated. We provide a financial programming exercise that demonstrates that the plan is financially responsible under a reasonable fiscal rule. Four core ideas stand out from our analysis. Firstly, while public investment can be key to reigniting economic growth, it does not go very far in tackling structural weaknesses. Secondly, public spending in health can actually achieve this from two fronts: by beginning to build a universal access social protection system and by addressing gender imbalances in the labor market. Thirdly, focusing public discussion on social protection enables a broader approach to policy reform by including formal employment and productivity enhancing reforms, which are essential for the sustainability of a broad social protection system. Finally, we also show that the sector mix in public investment has an impact on employment results, both in terms of the volume of jobs generated and their gender composition.
- Topic:
- Health, Inequality, COVID-19, Socioeconomics, Public Spending, and Gender
- Political Geography:
- South America and Peru
4. Formal Employment and Organized Crime: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Colombia
- Author:
- Gaurav Khana, Carlos Medina, Anant Nyshadham, and Jorge Tamayo
- Publication Date:
- 10-2019
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Center for Global Development (CGD)
- Abstract:
- Canonical models of crime emphasize economic incentive. Yet, causal evidence of sorting into criminal occupations in response to individual-level variation in incentives is limited. We link administrative socioeconomic microdata with the universe of arrests in Medellín over a decade. We exploit exogenous variation in formal-sector employment around a socioeconomic-score cutoff, below which individuals receive benefits if not formally employed, to test whether a higher cost to formal-sector employment induces crime. Regression discontinuity estimates show this policy generated reductions in formal-sector employment and a corresponding spike in organized crime, but no effects on crimes of impulse or opportunity.
- Topic:
- Employment, Illegal Trade, Organized Crime, and Socioeconomics
- Political Geography:
- Colombia and South America
5. El Paraguay de hoy: Una mirada al campo
- Author:
- Lilian Meza
- Publication Date:
- 07-2013
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- Centro de Análisis y Difusión de la Economía Paraguaya (CADEP)
- Abstract:
- Un informe realizado por Lilian Meza del CADEP toma nota de las características de la población rural del Paraguay actualmente. Con datos oficiales de la Dirección General de Estadísticas, Encuestas y Censos y del Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganaderia, el informe describe el perfil educativo, socioeconómico, y de vivienda, entre otros, del sector de la sociedad apostado fuera de los conos urbanos.
- Topic:
- Education, Population, Rural, Housing, and Socioeconomics
- Political Geography:
- South America and Paraguay
6. A Socioeconomic Evaluation of Alternative Development in the Tropics of Cochabamba, Bolivia: Findings, Observations and Policy Recommendations
- Author:
- Maggie Ball, Ramón Escóbar, Steven Grin, and Leslie MacKeen
- Publication Date:
- 05-2006
- Content Type:
- Journal Article
- Journal:
- Journal of Public and International Affairs (JPIA)
- Institution:
- School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA), Princeton University
- Abstract:
- The coca plant, from which the narcotic cocaine is derived, has been at the core of a destabilizing and often violent national debate in Bolivia for more than two decades. Between July and September 2005, a Columbia University research team conducted an evaluation of the Bolivian government’s Alternative Development programs in the Tropics of Cochabamba. The team’s fi ndings reveal that Alternative Development, which aims to eliminate coca production, has inadequately planned and developed viable markets for alternative goods, and has been implemented in a divisive manner that has provoked further tensions in this unstable region. This paper provides specifi c policy recommendations that aim to address defi ciencies in the current Alternative Development agenda and offer concrete suggestions for future development programs in the Tropics of Cochabamba.
- Topic:
- Development, Socioeconomics, and Destabilization
- Political Geography:
- South America and Bolivia