What's Wrong with International Financial Markets?
Aug 2000 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Fernández-Arias, Eduardo;Hausmann, Ricardo
Recent financial crises and contagion call into question the wisdom of capital account liberalization. There is consensus that something is terribly wrong in the way international financial markets…
The Public Sector Premium and the Gender Gap in Latin America: Evidence from the 1980s and 1990s
Aug 2000 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Panizza, Ugo
This paper exploits a rich collection of household surveys to investigate the wage differential between the public and private sectors in 17 Latin American countries during the 1980s and 1990s. The…
Jurisprudence of Equality Project (JEP): Consolidated Report Based on the Evaluations in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay
Aug 2000
Author(s): Pfund, Alicia
The Jurisprudence of Equality project (JEP) trains judges and other judicial actors on the applicability of international women's rights law in domestic courts, thus enhancing their ability to…
Talkin' Ol' Story: A Brief Survey of the Oral Tradition of the Bahamas
Jul 2000
Author(s): Glinton-Meicholas, Patricia
Patricia Glinton Meicholas, Bahamian writer, founding president of the Bahamas Association for Cultural Studies, Silver Jubilee of Independence Medal for Literature.
MERCOSUR Report No. 6 (1999-2000)
Jul 2000
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank
Although the leaders of the four member countries repeatedly affirmed their complete faith in the integration process, the outlook for MERCOSUR has been uncertain and gloomy as a result of Brazil¿s…
Uncertainty in the Economic Appraisal of Water Quality Improvement Investments: The Case for Project Risk Analysis
Jul 2000
Author(s): Vaughan, William J.;Darling, Arthur H.;Rodríguez, Diego J.
This technical paper argues that Monte Carlo risk analysis offers a more comprehensive and informative way to look at project risk ex-ante than the traditional (and often arbitrary), one-influence-at…
Microenterprise Development Review: Volume 3 : No. 1 : Summer, 2000
Jul 2000
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank
This issue of Microenterprise Development Review examines the steps needed for microentrepreneurs who want to register his or her own business. In addition, another article addresses a recent study…
Bridging the Gender Gap in Developing Regions
Jul 2000 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Magnoli, Alessandro
According to conventional wisdom, health and education are important factors for economic and social development: they improve productivity and income distribution, and the poor gain the most.…
Household Saving in Developing Countries - Inequality, Demographics and All That: How Different are Latin America and South East Asia?
Jul 2000 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Attanasio, Orazio P.;Székely, Miguel
East Asia and Latin America have diverged in several dimensions in the past three decades. This paper compares household saving behavior in two countries in each region (Mexico, Peru, Thailand and…
IDB America: Vol. 27, no. 5-6, May-June 2000
Jun 2000
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.
Columbus's Ghost: Tourism, Art and National Identity in the Bahamas
Jun 2000
Author(s): Strachan, Ian Gregory
Ian Gregory Strachan (1969-), Bahamian writer, Chair of English Studies at College of the Bahamas, author of God's Angry Babies (1997) and Paradise and Plantation (2002).
On the Edge of Time: Contemporary Art from the Bahamas
Jun 2000
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank
Fifty paintings, drawings, sculptures, and popular objects used in the celebration of Junkanoo, from private collections. The exhibition illustrated the development of Bahamian art since…
Regulation and Supervision of Microfinance in Latin America and the Caribbean: Summary Tables
Jun 2000
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank
Financing Biodiversity Conservation
Jun 2000
Author(s): Bayón, Ricardo;Lovink, J. Steven;Veening, Wouter J.
Financing the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity has been called one of the greatest challenges. At the heart of this challenge lies the low financial and political value which is often…
Empirical Determinants of Good Institutions: Do We Know Anything?
Jun 2000 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Straub, Stéphane
Abundant empirical evidence links well-functioning institutions and good governance to better economic and social outcomes. It is thus an important challenge to determine which conjunction of factors…
What Makes Reforms Likely?: Timing and Sequencing of Structural Reforms in Latin America
Jun 2000 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Lora, Eduardo
The wave of structural reforms in Latin America and elsewhere has stimulated the development of a wide body of theoretical literature on the political economy of reform, i.e., the study of the…
Labor Markets and Income Support: What Did We Learn from the Crises?
Jun 2000 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Márquez, Gustavo
The adoption of emergency employment and short-term training programs to provide income support to the population affected by the episodes of economic volatility since 1995 reveals the failure of the…
E-Promotions: The Value of E-mail Marketing
Jun 2000 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Giannoni, Gerardo
Recent improvements in the Internet are revolutionizing the way companies market their services. This book examines the effectiveness of e-mail promotion as a complement to marketing strategies used…
Reaching the Poor through Demand Subsidies: The Colombian Health Reform
Jun 2000
Author(s): Savedoff, William D.
This paper discusses the Colombian Health Reform, a reform seeking to equalize access to health services for the poor by giving them insurance that can purchase care from public or private providers…
Liberalization of the Gas Sector in Latin America: The Experience of Three Countries
Jun 2000
Author(s): Beato, Paulina;Fuente, Carmen
This paper is devoted to examining the scope, outcomes and shortcomings of reforms aimed at introducing competition in the production, transport, distribution and retail segments of the gas industry…