Information Through Vouchers: What Next, After Paraguay?
Mar 1999
Author(s): Goldmark, Lara;Schor, Gabriel
A functional weakness of the training market is the extreme difficulty with which potential purchasers of "training" can gauge the quality of training programs in advance of payment.…
Retail Competition in Electricity
Mar 1999
Author(s): Beato, Paulina;Fuente, Carmen
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the issues involved when introducing consumer choice into the power sector. Section 1 describes the approaches used by several countries to introduce tetail…
Preventing Crisis and Contagion: Fiscal and Financial Dimensions
Mar 1999 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Gavin, Michael;Hausmann, Ricardo
Recent economic developments highlight Latin America's vulnerability to economic and financial turmoil that is triggered by events in distant corners of the globe. The Asian financial crisis…
International Initiatives to Bring Stability to Financial Integration
Mar 1999 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Fernández-Arias, Eduardo;Hausmann, Ricardo
Financial liberalization and integration have generated disappointing results. They were supposed to set up a win-win situation: capital would flow from capital-abundant, low-return, aging industrial…
Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Framework for Action
Mar 1999
Author(s): Buvinic, Mayra;Morrison, Andrew;Shifter, Michael
Considering the high prevalence of domestic and social violence and their linkages, the focus of this analysis is the broader subject of violence rather than the narrower one of criminal violence. A…
Political Environments, Sector-Specific Configurations, and Strategic Devices: Understanding Institutional Reform in Uruguay
Mar 1999 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Filgueira, Fernando;Moraes, Juan Andrés;Fernández, Carlos;Filgueira, Carlos;Moreira, Constanza
This paper argues for a multi-level explanatory model for understanding institutional reform. Using the case of Uruguay, the authors seek to show how a changed political environment combined with…
IDB America: Vol. 26, no. 1-2, January-February 1999
Feb 1999
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank
IDB America reports on economic and social development trends in Latin America and the Caribbean and on the activities of the IDB. It is published 10 times annually in Spanish and English.
L'Estampe en France: Thirty-Four Young Printmakers
Feb 1999
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank
Forty-five limited edition prints (primarily etching and engraving, but also lithography, silkscreen, and computer-generated images, among others) by French printmakers under forty years of age.…
Sibling Correlations and Social Mobility in Latin America
Feb 1999 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Dahan, Momi;Gaviria, Alejandro
In this paper, social mobility is measured by looking at the extent to which family background determines socioeconomic success. Roughly speaking, social mobility can be measure by means of two…
Improving the Odds: Political Strategies for Institutional Reform in Latin America
Jan 1999
Author(s): Graham, Carol;Grindle, Merilee;Lora, Eduardo;Seddon Wallack, Jessica
This monograph is part of a larger investigation of the political economy of institutional reform in Latin America undertaken by the Latin American Research Network. It examines some hypotheses…
The Caribbean Community: Facing the Challenges of Regional and Global Integration
Jan 1999
Author(s): Rodríguez, Ennio;Jessen, Anneke
On 4 July 1998, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary. CARICOM is one of the oldest integration schemes in the Western Hemisphere, the largest in terms of…
There's More Than One Way to Get a House: Housing Strategies in Panama
Jan 1999 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Jacobs, Michael;Savedoff, William D.
This paper uses household data from two cities in Panama to evaluate the determinants of the tenure decision in the context of two models. The key factors explaining the decision to rent or own are…
Too Close to Home: Domestic Violence in the Americas
Jan 1999 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Gonzales de Olarte, Efraín;Larraín, Soledad;Strouss de Samper, Jacquin;Shifter, Michael;Schieck, Elaine;Poppe, Patricia;Buvinic, Mayra;Cervantes Islas, Francisco;Quesada, Charo;Orlando, María Beatriz;Jaffe, Peter;Lozano Ascencio, Rafael;Suderman, Marlies;Suárez, Elena M.;Macauley, Margarette May;Valdez, Enrique;Villanueva, Zarela;Morrison, Andrew;Granados Shiroma, Marcela;Da Rocha, Martha Mesquita;Lozano, Rafael;Gavilano Llosa, Pilar
Too Close to Home is a collection of essays by international authorities ranging from psychologists and doctors to economists and communication experts. Several authors analyze the economic and…
Microfinance and Poverty: Questioning the Conventional Wisdom
Jan 1999 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Gulli, Hege
Microfinance and Poverty probes a set of assumptions that have arisen about microfinance and poverty reduction and that have become the conventional wisdom, although they have not been proven. These…
Justice Beyond Our Borders: Judicial Reforms for Latin America and the Caribbean
Jan 1999 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Rhudy, Robert J.;Vargas Viancos, Juan Enrique;Mejía, Francisco;Herzog, Carolyn;Linarelli, John;Biebesheimer, Christina
Justice Beyond Our Borders looks at successful judicial systems and practices outside of Latin America that could serve as models for countries of the region. It examines large-scale judicial…
Financial Risk Management: A Practical Approach for Emerging Markets
Jan 1999 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Escrig Meliá, Miguel;Falero Carrasco, Bernardo;Staking, Kim B.;Beato, Paulina;Ayuso Calle, Alfonso;Botín O'Shea, Emilio;Soler Ramos, José A.
Financial Risk Management outlines how to implement an objective and systematic risk management program that allows for effective control and evaluation of operations. This comprehensive guide is…
Financial Disclosure: A First Step to Financial Market Development
Jan 1999 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Choi, Frederick D. S.;Murguía O'Keefe, Armando;Schulz, Alison;Carley, Alvin;Staking, Kim B.;Krygier, Alberto
Recognizing the need to improve the quality of financial disclosure by private sector firms in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Inter-American Development Bank sponsored a conference in…
Traffic Safety: Using Engineering to Reduce Accidents
Jan 1999 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Gold, Philip Anthony
The book gives traffic engineers, planners, and managers a methodology to identify, analyze, and correct factors that cause traffic accidents. The procedures and materials required are of low cost…
Can Privatization Deliver?: Infrastructure for Latin America
Jan 1999 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Aarons, Fred;Stiggers, David;Hennemeyer, Paul;Jenne, Charles;Ordover, Janusz A.;Wenyon, Sylvia;Spiller, Pablo T.;Cook, Jacques;Ramírez, Gustavo Adolfo;Savedoff, William D.;Radzyminski, Alejandro A.;Avendaño, Rubén;Willig, Robert D.;Uribe, Evamaría;Parra, María Angela;Tomiak, Richard;Basañes, C. Federico;Palacios Mejía, Hugo
While privatization of water, electricity, transport and communications infrastructure continues to gain momentum in Latin America, its success often depends on whether countries implement the…
Spilled Water: Institutional Commitment in the Provision of Water Services
Jan 1999 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank
Latin America loses about nine trillion cubic meters of water each year, or some 30 percent of the water collected and treated for public consumption. While it is impossible for water systems to…