The Challenges of the Institutionalization of the Reduction Poverty Policies and Programs: Social Authority, Decentralization and Participation (Planning and Development of Productive and Work Generat
Nov 2004
Author(s): Lora, Marta
This presentation was commissioned by the Poverty Reduction and Social Protection Network of the Regional Policy Dialogue for the VII Hemispheric Meeting celebrated on November 11th and 12th, 2004.…
Institucionality of the Social Policy in Argentina
Nov 2004
Author(s): Arroyo, Daniel
This presentation was commissioned by the Poverty Reduction and Social Protection Network of the Regional Policy Dialogue for the VII Hemispheric Meeting celebrated on November 11th and 12th, 2004.…
Internationally Comparable Poverty Lines
Nov 2004
Author(s): Kakwani, N.
This presentation was commissioned by the Poverty Reduction and Social Protection Network of the Regional Policy Dialogue for the VII Hemispheric Meeting celebrated on November 11th and 12th, 2004.…
Bank Ownership and Lending Behavior
Nov 2004 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Micco, Alejandro;Panizza, Ugo
This paper examines whether bank ownership (public versus private, domestic versus foreign) is correlated with bank lending behavior over the business cycle. The paper finds that state-owned banks…
Short Form for the Institutional Assessment of Civil Service Systems: Case of Barbados
Nov 2004 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Isaacs, Hedy
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) through its Regional Policy Dialogue, Public Policy and Management Network commissioned this study [update] of the Institutional Assessment of Civil Service…
Health Financing Innovations in the Caribbean: EHPO© and the National Health Fund of Jamaica
Nov 2004
Author(s): Barrett, Raphael D.;Lalta, Stanley
This paper describes the conceptualization, development and implementation of the National Health Fund in Jamaica. Established in 2003, the NHF provides direct assistance to patients for drug…
Trust Funds at the Inter-American Development Bank: Enhancing Development Assistance to Latin America and the Caribbean
Nov 2004
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank
Between 1992 and 2003, Latin American and Caribbean countries accessed around US$300 million from the IDB trust fund program for non-reimbursable technical cooperation projects. This report offers a…
Investing in Gender Equality: 2002-2003
Nov 2004
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank
This third edition of Investing in Gender Equality presents IDB projects that exemplify good work in the integration of gender considerations in their design. The 18 projects included in this edition…
Agricultural Trade Liberalization: Policies and Implications for Latin America
Nov 2004 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Watanuki, Masakazu;Jank, Marcos Sawaya;Jales, Mário Queiroz de Monteiro;Azevedo, Paulo F.;Monteagudo, Josefina;Farina, Elizabeth;Robinson, Sherman;Chaddad, Fabio R.;Fuchsloch, Ian;Miranda, Sílvia Helena Galvão;Hathaway, Dale E.;Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio;Kutas, Géraldine;Kerr, William A.;Orden, David;Depetris Guiguet, Edith;Burnquist, Heliosa Lee;Da Cunha Filho, Joaquim Henrique;Gardner, Bruce;Thomas, Marcelle;Gaisford, James D.;Barros, Geraldo Sant'Ana de Camargo;Bureau, Jean-Christophe;Cattaneo, Andrea
This book investigates key issues in regard to liberalization of agricultural trade in the Western Hemisphere, including potential scenarios for liberalization at the regional and multilateral levels…
Financial Institutions and the Remittances Market in the Dominican Republic
Nov 2004
Author(s): Suki, Lenora
This study focuses on the financial channels and institutions that determine the structure and cost of remittances between the US and the Dominican Republic, where commercial banks have yet to…
Sending Money Home: Remittances to Latin America from the U.S., 2004
Nov 2004
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank
The first detailed state-by-state analysis of remittances from the United States to Latin America, presenting insight into new migration patterns reaching geographic locations well beyond the…
Remittances: A Gateway to Banking for Unbanked Immigrants
Nov 2004
Author(s): Frumkin, Samuel
This slide is about a gateway to banking for unbanked immigrants. Also presents topics on banks interested, remittances work and risks and regulatory issues.
A New Statement of Direction for the Remittances Business in Dominican Republic
Nov 2004
Author(s): Álvarez, Carmen Cristina
This slide is about a Statement of Direction for the Remittances business In Dominican Republic. Presents a vision statement, ReD Growth Strategy, Distribution Channels, RED Growth, Rural Coop's…
Remittances and the Dominican Republic: Survey of Recipients in the Dominican Republic, Survey of Senders in the United States
Nov 2004
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank;Bendixen and Amandi
Results and analysis of a poll on remittance recipients in Dominican Republic
Private Sector Performance Contracting in the Water Sector: The Case of SABESP: Case Study
Nov 2004
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank
Water systems in Latin America are inefficient in part because of very low relative investment and in part because of the lack of availability of necessary management tools. One way to address both…
The Opportunities for Sustainable Urban Transportation in Medium-Sized Cities in Latin American and the Caribbean
Nov 2004 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Bleviss, Deborah;BBG Group
The purpose of this report is to carry out for the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) a strategic analysis of specific medium-sized cities in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region that…
The Impact of Training Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Case of Programa Joven
Nov 2004 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Aedo, Cristían;Nuñez, Sergio
This paper evaluates Programa Joven, a training program conducted by Argentina's Ministerio del Trabajo. The paper adapts and applies a non-experimental evaluation methodology to answer the…
Should the Government Be in the Banking Business?: The Role of State-Owned and Development Banks
Nov 2004
Author(s): Levy Yeyati, Eduardo;Micco, Alejandro;Panizza, Ugo
This paper surveys the theoretical and empirical literature on the role of state-owned banks and also presents some new results and a robustness analysis. The paper shows that state-owned banks…
Bank Ownership and Performance
Nov 2004
Author(s): Micco, Alejandro;Panizza, Ugo;Yañez, Mónica
This paper builds a new dataset on bank ownership and bank performance covering approximately 50,000 observations for 119 countries over the 1995-2002 period. The paper then uses the dataset to…
An Econometric Cost-Benefit Analysis of Argentina’s Youth Training Program
Oct 2004 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Elías, Víctor;Ruiz Núñez, Fernanda;Cossa, Ricardo;Bravo, David
The Youth Training Program (YTP) was an important component of Argentina's active labor policy of the 1990s. The program offered courses of three months' duration, divided equally between…