Innovation Policy for Development: an Overview
Nov 2005 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Trajtenberg, Manuel
This paper was prepared for the LAEBA 2005 second annual meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is meant to provide a framework for thinking systematically about innovation policies for development,…
Remittances 2005: Transforming Labor Markets and Promoting Financial Democracy: Statistical Comparisons
Nov 2005
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank
For generations, millions of migrant workers have been sending billions of dollars back to their home countries to support their families. Remittances are widely recognized as critical to the…
The Role of Information and Communication Technology in Building Trust in Governance: Towards Effectiveness and Results
Nov 2005 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Avgerou, Chrisanti;Ciborra, Claudio;Cordella, Antonio;Kallinikos, Jannis;Smith, Matthew
In a world in which 50 percent of the population is virtually excluded from the benefits of information and communication technology, bridging the digital gap has become an imperative for the…
The Knowledge Economy in Development: Perspectives for Effective Partnerships
Nov 2005 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Piaggesi, Danilo;Mokyr, Joel;Mitchell, Graham R.;Villaschi Filho, Arlindo;Murray, T. Scott;Hammond, Allen;Katz, Rob;Paul, John;Tran, Julia;Cordella, Antonio;Furlong, Shauneen;Raymond, Peter;Soupizet, Jean-François;Lopes, Paulo;Meissl, Maresa;Echeverri, Luis Guillermo;Nunes, Esther Donio Bellegarde;Chen, Derek Hung Chiat;Vitro, Robert
The partnership between the Inter-American Development Bank and the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean to integrate the requirements of an emerging knowledge-based global economy into…
Environmental Mainstreaming: Applications in the Context of Modernization of the State, Social Development, Competitiveness, and Regional Integration
Nov 2005 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Seyour, Frances;Maurer, Crescencia;Quiroga, Ricardo
As part of a collaborative effort between the IDB's Environment Division and the World Resources Institute, this document discusses environmental mainstreaming considerations in the context of…
Country Program Evaluation: Uruguay (1991-2004)
Nov 2005
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank
This country program evaluation (RE-312) covers the period from 1991 to 2004. It is composed of five chapters that evaluate the outcomes of the Bank's program in Uruguay for the period 1991-2004…
The Effects of Motherhood on Wages and Labor Force Participation: Evidence from Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador and Peru
Nov 2005
Author(s): Piras, Claudia;Ripani, Laura
This study asks a simple question that has significant implications for gender equality. After decades of increasing female participation in the labor market, advances in the labor legislation and…
The IDB and Job Creation: Report to the Summit of the Americas
Nov 2005
Author(s): Mazza, Jacqueline;Paris, Angela;Márquez, Gustavo;Ripani, Laura
This publication examines job creation and the work of the IDB from two supporting policy perspectives: (i) policies and programs to improve the business climate and investment for private sector-…
Achievements and Challenges of Trade Capacity Building: A Practitioner's Analysis of the CAFTA Process and its Lessons for the Multilateral System
Oct 2005 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Miller, Eric T.
In policy circles and intellectual centers throughout the world, there is considerable debate on how to make globalization "work" for smaller, poorer, and otherwise disadvantaged countries…
Working in Partnership with IFAC
Oct 2005
Author(s): Del Valle, Fermín;Guthrie, Russell
ICATT ¿ Strengthening the Accounting Profession: Experiences in Project Execution in Trinidad and Tobago
Oct 2005
Author(s): Raggay, David
Empirical Information and the Development of Educational Policies in Latin America
Oct 2005
Author(s): Cueto, Santiago
This paper discusses the links between empirical information and the development of educational policies in Latin America. The data presented in this paper comes from responses to a questionnaire…
Agricultural Insurance Revisited: New Developments and Perspectives in Latin America and the Caribbean
Oct 2005 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Wenner, Mark D.
The purpose of this paper is to provide Bank staff interested in agricultural yield insurance market development, public officials responsible for financial market policy formulation and supervision…
OVE's 2004-2005 Annual Report and Proposed 2006 Work Program and Budget
Oct 2005
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank
This report (RE-311) constitutes the 2004-2005 Annual Report and the proposed 2006 work program and budget request of the Office of Evaluation and Oversight (OVE). The report consists of two sections…
Opportunities for GHG Mitigation in Latin America: Carbon Finance and the Clean Development Mechanism
Oct 2005 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Pollan, Michael
This report discusses the opportunities and challenges for Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects in Latin America. CDM is an important tool to improve the viability of many clean technology…
Urban Air Quality and Human Health in Latin America and the Caribbean
Oct 2005 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Cifuentes, Luis A.;Krupnick, Alan J.;O'Ryan, Raúl;Toman, Michael
Health problems due to poor air quality have been among the main environmental concerns in Mexico City, Santiago, Bogotá, Sao Paulo, Lima, Quito among other cities in the region. This study provides…
Microfinance in the Caribbean: How to Go Further
Sep 2005
Author(s): Westley, Glenn D.
This paper discusses microfinance institutions (MFIs) in the Caribbean. It argues that the reason they have lagged is fundamentally explained by factors internal to the MFIs, rather than external to…
Information and Progress: An Analysis of What is Happening in the Caribbean with Information, Decision-Making and Progress in Education
Sep 2005
Author(s): Fernández, Jorge
This presentation was commissioned by the Education Network of the Regional Policy Dialogue for the VIII Hemispheric Meeting celebrated on November 7th and 8th, 2005.
Decision Making and Information
Sep 2005
Author(s): Kállan, Adiel K.
This presentation was commissioned by the Education Network of the Regional Policy Dialogue for the Caribbean Subregional Meeting celebrated on September 15th and 16th, 2005 in Barbados. It focuses…
Using Data to Understand Homicides in Trinidad & Tobago
Sep 2005
Author(s): Miller, Joel
This document presents statistics and information related to homicides in Trinidad and Tobago. The presentation discusses how to use data from a series of sources -police, newspaper coverage of…