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This paper develops a conceptual framework and offers new statistical evidence on the access to credit by micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in Guatemala and Nicaragua. To this end, and after reviewing the exis...

Materias / palabras clave: Sampling (signal processing); Computer science; Identification (biology); Health informatics; Data science; Qualitative research; Selection (genetic algorithm); Management science; Data collection; Set (abstract data typ...

We use the shifts in Engel curves estimated from household surveys to estimate CPI biases in Argentina between 1985 and 2005. We find that real earning levels increased during this period between 4.3 and 5.7% faster per ...

Our study critically surveys financial inclusion in Latin American and Caribbean countries, gauging access to both credit and deposit accounts by poor households. Our review confirms some pieces of conventional wisdom in...

Conventional wisdom indicates that a millisecond pulsar is recycled during the mass transfer stage in a binary system. Usually, the companion to the pulsar is a low-mass white dwarf. If zero ages are set at the end of ma...

Un rasgo inusual de la estrategia didáctica de Hesíodo en Trabajos y Días es la inclusión de su hermano Perses, como destinatario. Si existe o no una base histórica para la disputa financiera entre hermanos, tal com...

Financial crises have become part of the economic landscape around the world and in Latin America in particular. Substantial effort is being nowadays devoted to understand and prevent crises, but less work has been advan...

Conventional approaches to sampling signals or images follow Shannon's theorem: the sampling rate must be at least twice the maximum frequency present in the signal (Nyquist rate). In the field of data conversion, standa...

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. Although the partitioning of a total effect into direct and indirect components in the manner described here does not require the assumption that the erro...

A science of positive subjective experience, positive individual traits, and positive institutions promises to improve quality of life and prevent the pathologies that arise when life is barren and meaningless. The exclu...

Abstract How has Japan become a major economic power, a world leader in the automotive and electronics industries? What is the secret of their success? The consensus has been that, though the Japanese are not particularl...