Competition Law and Policy in El Salvador: A Peer Review
Jan 2008 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Clark, John
The OECD has been active in promoting competition policy among countries in Latin America and the Caribbean and formed a partnership with the Inter-American Development Bank to further this aim. The…
Nutrition, Income Instability and Quality of Life: Determinants and Differential Patterns across Members within the Household
Jan 2008
Author(s): Cárdenas, Mauricio;Di Maro, Vincenzo;Mejía, Carolina
Using an approach that complements standard income-based measures with broader measures of well-being this paper addresses the relationship between quality of life and deprivation. In particular,…
Anticorruption Activities Trust Fund: Report on Preparatory Activities
Jan 2008
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank
Recognizing corruption as a serious threat to economic growth, social equity, and good governance, the IDB signed an agreement in March of 2007 with the Government of Norway for the establishment of…
Japan Special Fund and Japanese Trust Fund for Consultancy Services Annual Report 2007
Jan 2008
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank
This Annual Report details the activities of the Japanese Trusts Funds for 2007. The Japanese Trust Funds support five distinct programs: the Japan Special Fund (JSF); the Japanese Trust Fund for…
Revelation of Expectations in Latin America (REVELA): No. 9 : January, 2008
Jan 2008
Author(s): Salazni, Mariana;Powell, Andrew
REVELA analyzes market expectations of growth and inflation in Latin American countries. The figures analyzed represent the results of surveys of private sector actors conducted by the central banks…
Beyond Facts: Understanding Quality of Life
Jan 2008 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Pagés, Carmen;Scartascini, Carlos;Funaro, Rita;Madrigal, Lucía;Duryea, Suzanne;Chaparro, Juan Camilo;Rodríguez-Pombo, María Victoria;Lora, Eduardo;Sanguinetti, Pablo;Savedoff, William D.;Navarro, Juan Carlos;Verdisco, Aimee;Alfonso, Mariana;Powell, Andrew
Traditionally, the concept of quality of life has been viewed through objective indicators. Beyond Facts looks at quality of life through a new lens, namely, the perceptions of millions of Latin…
Inter-American Development Bank Cultural Center Annual Report 2007
Jan 2008
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank
This report summarizes the activities of the IDB Cultural Center in 2007. Throughout 2007 the IDB Cultural Center steered its efforts towards supporting and consolidating the Bank's strategic…
Cultural Development Program: Guidelines
Jan 2008
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank
Remittances and Development: Lessons from Latin America
Jan 2008 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Bussolo, Maurizio;Martínez Peria, María Soledad;Calderón, César;Mascaró, Yira;Nielsen, Mette E.;Acosta, Pablo;López, J. Humberto;Özden, Çaglar;Niimi, Yoko;Molina, Luis;Moizeszowicz, Florencia;Salinas, Emanuel;Fajnzylber, Pablo;Guadamillas, Mario;Cirasino, Massimo;Olinto, Pedro
Workers' remittances have become a major source of financing for developing countries and are especially important in Latin America and the Caribbean, which is at the top of the ranking of…
Fiscal Policy, Stabilization, and Growth: Prudence or Abstinence?
Jan 2008 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Werneck, Rogério L.F.;Irwin, Timothy;Sturzenegger, Federico;Perry, Guillermo;Servén, Luis;Mihov, Ilian;Giavazzi, Francesco;Blanchard, Olivier;Araújo, Carlos Hamilton Vasconcelos;Suescún, Rodrigo;Ferreira, Pedro Cavalcanti Gomes;Smart, Michael;Mintz, Jack M.;Fatás, Antonio
Fiscal policy in Latin America has been guided primarily by short-term liquidity targets whose observance was taken as the main exponent of fiscal prudence, with attention focused almost exclusively…
Deepening integration in MERCOSUR: Dealing with Disparities
Jan 2008 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Giordano, Paolo;Mesquita Moreira, Mauricio;Quevedo, Fernando;Blyde, Juan S.;Fernández-Arias, Eduardo;Venables, Anthony J.;Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P.;Laens, Silvia;Terra, María Inés;Vaillant, Marcel;Baruj, Gustavo;Kosacoff, Bernardo;Porta, Fernando;Rezende, Fernando;Flôres Jr., Renato G.;Heymann, Daniel;Ramos, Adrián;Moccero, Diego;Winograd, Carlos;Bouzas, Roberto;Ventura, Deisy
Regional integration among asymmetric countries is a hot and burning policy topic worldwide. Deepening Integration in MERCOSUR analyzes the most important issues of economic integration and policy…
Gatekeepers of Global Commerce: Rules of Origin and International Economic Integration
Jan 2008 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Estevadeordal, Antoni;Suominen, Kati;Harris, Jeremy;López Córdova, José Ernesto
Rules of origin are a crucial market access instrument in the rapidly proliferating network of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) around the world. In this volume, Estevadeordal and Suominen reveal…
Unclogging the Arteries: The Impact of Transport Costs on Latin American and Caribbean Trade
Jan 2008 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Mesquita Moreira, Mauricio;Volpe Martincus, Christian;Blyde, Juan S.
The book explores the impact of transport costs on trade in Latin America and the Caribbean, and argues that transport costs have assumed an unprecedented strategic importance to the region. The…
Privatization for the Public Good?: Welfare Effects of Private Intervention in Latin America
Jan 2008 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Barrera-Osorio, Felipe;Galdo, Virgilio;Schargrodsky, Ernesto;Galiani, Sebastián;González Rozada, Martín;Nakasone, Eduardo;Chong, Alberto E.;Coombs, Elizabeth;Gonzalez-Eiras, Martín;Torero, Máximo;Alcázar, Lorena;Olivera, Mauricio;Carrillo, Paul E.;Rossi, Martín;Bellettini Cedeño, Orazio J.
This book provides a detailed microeconomic analysis of the impact of various privatizations in different countries in the region. Its central message is that in many cases, contrary to popular…
Policymaking in Latin America: How Politics Shapes Policies
Jan 2008 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Spiller, Pablo T.;Stein, Ernesto H.;Tommasi, Mariano;Scartascini, Carlos;Alston, Lee J.;Melo, Marcus André;Mueller, Bernardo;Pereira, Carlos;Aninat, Cristóbal;Londregan, John;Navia, Patricio;Vial, Joaquín;Cárdenas, Mauricio;Junguito, Roberto;Pachón, Mónica;Mejía Acosta, Andrés;Araujo, María Caridad;Pérez-Liñán, Aníbal;Saiegh, Sebastián;Lehoucq, Fabrice;Negretto, Gabriel;Aparicio, Francisco Javier;Nacif, Benito;Benton, Allyson Lucinda;Molinas, José R.;Montero, Marcela;Monaldi, Francisco;González de Pacheco, Rosa Amelia;Obuchi, Richard;Penfold, Michael
What determines the capacity of countries to design, approve and implement effective public policies? To address this question, this book builds on the results of case studies of political…
Raising Student Learning in Latin America: The Challenge for the 21st Century
Jan 2008 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Vegas, Emiliana;Petrow, Jenny
Understanding what and how students learn has emerged as a salient issue in Latin America, a region where the majority of children now have access to schools but few students learn the skills they…
The Impact of Private Sector Participation in Infrastructure: Lights, Shadows, and the Road Ahead
Jan 2008 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Foster, Vivien;Guasch, José Luis;Andrés, Luis;Haven, Thomas
Infrastructure plays a key role in fostering growth and productivity and has been linked to improved earnings, health, and education levels for the poor. Yet Latin America and the Caribbean are…
On Emerging Economy Sovereign Spreads and Ratings
Jan 2008 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Powell, Andrew;Martínez, Juan Francisco
This paper analyzes alternative models for emerging sovereign ratings. Although a small number of economic fundamentals explain ratings reasonably well, variations in those economic fundamentals are…
Office of Institutional Integrity Annual Report 2007
Jan 2008
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank
The Office of Institutional Integrity (OII) is the IDB Group's primary office for addressing external matters of integrity, fraud and corruption. As a measure of the significance that the IDB…
Inter-American Development Bank Sustainability Review 2007
Jan 2008
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) contributes to sustainable economic and social development in Latin America and the Caribbean in a wide variety of ways: through our lending operations,…