Corporate Social Responsibility - Deeds not Words
Dec 2004
Author(s): Austin, James;Peinado-Vara, Estrella;De la Torre, Gustavo;Gutiérrez, Roberto;Tolovi, José;Pizzolante, Italo;Jones, Audra;Vives, Antonio;Lozano, Gerardo;Ogliastri, Enrique;Valenzuela, David
Proceedings from the II Inter-American Conference on CSR, celebrated in Mexico
Women, Politics and Democratic Prospects in Latin America
Dec 2004
Author(s): Buvinic, Mayra;Roza, Vivian
Over the last decade, Latin America has witnessed unprecedented gains of more than 50 percent in the number of women in power. This paper explains these gains and discusses factors that fuel and help…
Search Methods and Outcomes in Developing Countries: The Case of Venezuela
Dec 2004 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Márquez, Gustavo;Ruiz-Tagle V., Cristóbal
In this study, the authors use a newly developed panel data set for Venezuela in the period between 1994 and 2002 to analyze three basic questions. The first relates to the influence of personal…
Integration and Trade in the Americas: A Preliminary Estimate of 2004 Trade
Dec 2004
Author(s): Mesquita Moreira, Mauricio;Shearer, Matthew;Cornejo, Rafael;Harris, Jeremy;Winter, Lucas;Covarrubias, María de la Paz
Preliminary estimates by the IDB indicate that the growth of Latin American exports in 2004 will be the highest in the last two decades, reaching 23 percent.
Decentralization and Development of Cities in Chile: The Case of Valparaiso
Nov 2004
Author(s): Huntzinger, Hervé;Prud'homme, Rémy
Situated at one of the far-end of the world, as it may be viewed from the Triad countries (Northern America, Western Europe and Japan) Chile performs really well in the world of globalization in…
Enclave Projects: What Are They and What Can Be Done?
Nov 2004
Author(s): Alzina, Virginia;Davidsen, Elizabeth;Deruyttere, Anne;Huici, Rodolfo;Jiménez, Javier;Ketterer, Juan Antonio;Montgomery, Robert;Nolet, Gijs
This report analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of including positive social actions in enclave projects after appropriate mitigation and compensation policies are in place, and addresses both…
Sending Money Home: Remittance Recipients in the Dominican Republic and Remittance Senders from the U.S.
Nov 2004
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank
The Dominican Republic is the fourth largest remittance market in the Latin America and Caribbean region. Remittances are an economic necessity for recipients, and financial sector involvement in the…
Macroeconomic Determinants of Remittances and Growth in the Dominican Republic
Nov 2004
Author(s): Orozco, Manuel
This document is about Economic dynamics of remittances on Dominican Republic. Presents graphics of Remittances, non-trad exports, tourism, and maquila.
Sending Money Home: An Analysis of the Remittance Market Between the United States and the Dominican Republic: Best Practices
Nov 2004
Author(s): Ruiz-Eldridge, Augusto
This slide is about a Sending Money Home, Remittance Market Between the United States and the Dominican Republic. Presents a Best Practices on Remesas Quisqueyana Inc: Innovative Products, Objective…
Ecuador: Creating Fiscal Space for Poverty Reduction: A Fiscal Management and Public Expenditure Review. Volume I
Nov 2004
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank;World Bank
This report consists of two volumes. Volume I examines whether, and how, the core goals of public expenditure management, i.e., balanced fiscal aggregates, resource allocations to strategic sectors,…
Financial Institutions and the Remittances Market in the Dominican Republic
Nov 2004
Author(s): Suki, Lenora
The MIF made a partnership with the Earth Institute at Columbia University to jointly administer a permanent program on remittance studies in Latin America and the Caribbean. I'ts a three-year…
Indigenous presence in Bolvian Folk Art: Folk Art in Bolivia: Celebration of Everyday Life
Nov 2004
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank
Bolivian folk art is created in both urban and rural areas, and like the people of Bolivia themselves, it bears a strong indigenous imprint. Many contemporary works owe their current form to lengthy…
The IDB Cultural Center at Artomatic
Nov 2004
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank
For the first time, the IDB Cultural Center participated in Artomatic, a mega exhibit that opened to the public on November 12, 2004 at 800 3rd Street, NE (3rd and H Streets, NE), in Washington, D.C…
Comparative Analysis about the Monitoring and Evaluation Systems: Debate about the Social Protection Policy and System - The Case of the Social Protection Net Program from Nicaragua (RPS) and a Proposal about a System of Unique Register of Poverty Family Beneficiaries
Nov 2004 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Lacayo, Carlos
The general mission of this policy is "to contribute to the social inclusion of the people, homes and communities in vulnerability condition, so that they participate of the development benefits…
How do the Colombian Families Respond to the Changes in the Economic Conditions?
Nov 2004 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Salas Bahamón, Luz Magdalena;Sánchez Torres, Fabio
This work will try to measure the differentiated effect that the changes in the economic conditions have on the families in terms of labor participation of the spouses and other members of the family…
Innovations in Intergovernmental Financing for Promoting Equality in the Access to Social Services: Case Study of Health and Education in Brazil
Nov 2004 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Ferrato dos Santos, Gabriel
The objective of this work is to present the main changes in education and health financing in Brazil during the 1995-2002 period, which brought important improvements in the recent performance and…
Sole Information Systems on Beneficiaries in Latin America
Nov 2004 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Irarrázaval, Ignacio
The aim of this study is to produce a document for the Inter-American Bank's Poverty and Social Protection Network which will allow a comparative vision to be structured on the Sole Information…
Targeting and Universalization as Instruments for the Reduction of Inequalities
Nov 2004 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Carvalho, Mirela de;De Barros, Ricardo Paes
In the recent study, we attempt to contribute to clarify the discussion of targeting and universalization by analyzing fundamental theoretical, ethical, analytical, and empirical concepts involved.…
The Transition of the Social Policies in Brazil since the Old Paradigm towards the Unique Register
Nov 2004 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Ramos, Carlos Alberto;Lobato, Ana Lucia
Our aim in this document is, exactly, to present this transition between the paradigms in the case of Brazil, and to develop a central point in this transition: the construction process of the Unique…
Integral Policies of Poverty Reduction: The Challenge of Effectiveness
Nov 2004 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Engel, Wanda
The objective of this work is to analyze the contribution of the Integral Policies in the increase of the effectiveness of the poverty reduction policies.