The External Balance Assessment (EBA) methodology has been developed by the IMF’s
Research Department as a successor to the CGER methodology for assessing current …

We investigate the factors driving Bolivia’s success in reducing inequality and poverty during
the last 15 years. Our evidence suggests that the reduction was driven mainly by labor …

Paraguay’s economy features a high degree of informality. Based on different estimation
approaches, informal activity represents more than half of total employment in Paraguay, a …

This paper offers an empirical model of the drivers of the level of the Real Effective Exchange
Rate (REER) that is now part of the IMF’s methodology for the assessment of external …

Over the past decades, inequality has risen not just in advanced economies but also in
many emerging market and developing economies, becoming one of the key global policy …

Cancer is the second leading cause of death worldwide. Researchers have been working
hard on investigating not only improved therapeutics but also on early detection methods, both …

As emphasized by Hausmann, Rodrik and Velasco, the policy challenge of boosting growth
requires prioritization and identifying what are the most binding constraints. This paper …

Using data from 1980-2017, this paper estimates a Global VAR (GVAR) model taylored for
the Caribbean region which includes its major trading partners, representing altogether …

Wallerian degeneration (WD) is the set of molecular and cellular events by which degenerating
axons and myelin are cleared after injury. Why WD is rapid and robust in the PNS but …

We used two mouse models of Huntington's disease (HD) to examine changes in glutamate
receptor sensitivity and striatal electrophysiology. One model, a transgenic, consisted of …