The Grand Tango: The Life and Music of Astor Piazzolla
May 2000
Author(s): Azzi, María Susana
María Susana Azzi (1952-), Argentine cultural anthropologist, Board Member of the Astor Piazzolla Foundation and the National Academy of Tango in Buenos Aires.
Reforming Higher Education in Europe: From State Regulation Towards New Managerialism?
May 2000 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Merrien, François X.
The present study describes the changes in the traditional European model of higher education, its successes as well as failures. The remarkable expansion of higher education in Europe during the…
Why Do Countries Float the Way They Float?
May 2000 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Hausmann, Ricardo;Panizza, Ugo;Stein, Ernesto H.
Countries that are classified as having floating exchange rate systems (or very wide bands) show strikingly different patterns of behavior. They hold very different levels of international reserves…
Political Institutions and Growth Collapses
May 2000 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Panizza, Ugo;Gaviria, Alejandro;Stein, Ernesto H.;Seddon Wallack, Jessica
This paper tests whether Rodrik's (1999) results that institutions for conflict management are associated with the ability to react to economic shocks are robust to different ways of defining…
The Effects of Labor Market Regulations on Employment Decisions by Firms: Empirical Evidence for Argentina
May 2000 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Mondino, Guillermo;Montoya, Silvia
There are few Latin American countries that produced such a remarkable turnaround in policies and outcomes as Argentina did in the 1990s. The large number of reforms yielded surprisingly strong…
Unions and Employment in Uruguay
May 2000 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Cassoni, Adriana;Allen, Steven G.;Labadie, Gastón J.
This study examines the impact of unions on wages and employment using data from Uruguay in a period when unions were banned (1973-1984), then legalized with tripartite bargaining (1984-1991)…
The Incidence of Job Security Regulations on Labor Market Flexibility and Compliance in Colombia: Evidence from the 1990 Reform
May 2000 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Kugler, Adriana
Utilizing differences-in-differences estimates, this paper reviews the impact of reduced firing costs on the dynamism of the Colombian labor market. The effects include raising exit rates into and…
Labor Market Reforms and Their Impact on Formal Labor Demand and Job Market Turnover: The Case of Peru
May 2000 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Saavedra-Chanduví, Jaime;Torero, Máximo
This paper analyzes the effects of several aspects of labor legislation that were modified through successive waves of reform since 1991. Firing costs diminished sharply through the progressive…
IDB America: Vol. 27, no. 3-4, March-April 2000
Apr 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.
The Optimal Sample Size for Contingent Valuation Surveys: Applications to Project Analysis
Apr 2000
Author(s): Vaughan, William J.;Darling, Arthur H.
One of the first questions that has to be answered in the survey design process is "How many subjects should be interviewed?" The answer can have significant implications for the cost of…
Subnational Development Strategy
Apr 2000
Author(s): Vives, Antonio;Rojas, Eduardo;Losada, Carlos;Stein, Ernesto H.;Payne, J. Mark;Febres, Jorge;Echebarría, Koldo;Dowers, Kenroy;Llisterri, Juan J.
This paper discusses the need for a Bank subnational development strategy. The subnational development strategy provides the Bank with a comprehensive framework to support borrowing member countries…
The Evolution of Urban Concentration around the World: A Panel Approach
Apr 2000 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Gaviria, Alejandro;Stein, Ernesto H.
In this paper, we use a panel approach to study population growth in major cities around the world. We find that major cities grow faster in relatively backward economies and in more volatile, faster…
The Impact of Access to Credit on the Saving Behavior of Microentrepreneurs: Evidence from 3 Latin American Countries
Apr 2000 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Rogg, Christian S.
This paper aims to shed light on changes in the saving behavior of microentrepreneurs in response to improved access to credit. This paper argues that it is necessary to extend the analysis to the…
Labor Market Regulation and Employment in the Caribbean
Apr 2000 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Downes, Andrew S.;Mamingi, Nlandu;Antoine, Rose-Marie Belle
One of the major economic challenges facing the Caribbean is the generation of employment opportunities to reduce the high levels of unemployment experienced primarily among the young and female…
The New Regionalism in the Americas: The Case of MERCOSUR
Apr 2000 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Estevadeordal, Antoni;Goto, Junichi;Saez, Raul
This paper takes seriously the recent claim made by Ethier [1998] that the "New Regionalism" reflects the success of the multilateral trading system, not its failure. In fact, the New…
Making Business Development Work: Lessons from the Enterprise Development Center in Rafaela, Argentina
Apr 2000
Author(s): Oldsman, Eric
This article examines the Enterprise Development Center (EDC) Rafaela-Esperanza's operating efficiency, financial self-sufficiency, coverage, and effectiveness. In general, EDCs must balance…
Inter-American Development Bank Annual Report 1999
Mar 2000
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank
The Annual Report contains a review of the Bank's operations in 1999.
The New Wave of Capital Inflows: Sea Change or Tide?
Mar 2000 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Fernández-Arias, Eduardo
This paper was prepared for the Seminar The New Wave of Capital Inflows: Sea Change or Tide? Annual Meetings of the Board of Governors, Inter-American Development Bank and Inter-American Investment…
Is FDI a Safer Form of Financing?
Mar 2000 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Fernández-Arias, Eduardo;Hausmann, Ricardo
It has been common to attribute financial crises to short-term capital inflows, while foreign direct investment (FDI) is seen as a safer form of finance. The relationship between crises and the…
Foreign Direct Investment: Good Cholesterol?
Mar 2000 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Hausmann, Ricardo;Fernández-Arias, Eduardo
This paper studies the proposition that capital inflows tend to take the form of FDI -i.e., the share of FDI in total liabilities tends to be higher- in countries that are safer, more promising and…