Start your advanced search in the IDB Publications Catalog.
Date issued:
Δεκ 2000
The European Union (EU) and MERCOSUR are the largest and most influential regions, both by population and in terms of size of the economy, of their respective continents. The renewed priority given…
Date issued:
Δεκ 2000
The relative success of microfinance in rural credit programs in Latin America is the result of a decentralized development approach stressing a large microenterprise sector, stable and permanent…
Date issued:
Δεκ 2000
The FTAA process itself has already generated important positive externalities for the hemisphere and the multilateral system. It has provided a regular forum in which 34 countries'; trade…
Date issued:
Δεκ 2000
MIF has experience in workforce capacity building, labor force modernization, skills standards, and labor re-conversion in the human resource sector. This paper presents an overview of eight MIF…
Date issued:
Δεκ 2000
This study was undertaken in response to a request from the government of Brazil that the Inter-American Development Bank support the analysis of infrastructure integration in South America at the…
Date issued:
Δεκ 2000
El propósito de este documento es analizar un programa que emite tarjetas de crédito a proveedores de insumos agrícolas y a productores rurales en Costa Rica, y determinar si el programa es viable…
Date issued:
Δεκ 2000
En este informe se ofrece un panorama general de las actividades del Grupo BID en apoyo al desarrollo de la Pequeña y Mediana Empresa (Pyme) en América Latina y el Caribe durante la década de los…
Date issued:
Δεκ 2000
La preparación del presente estudio responde a una solicitud efectuada al Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo por parte del Gobierno de la República Federativa de Brasil para apoyar el análisis de la…
Date issued:
Δεκ 2000
El objetivo del presente trabajo es analizar la situación de la cooperación internacional en materia de evaluación educativa en los países de América Latina y el Caribe, tratando de identificar sus…
Date issued:
Δεκ 2000
Generative AI enabled
Generative AI enabled
This paper tests the sensitivity of poverty indexes to the choice of adult equivalence scales, assumptions about the existence of economies of scale in consumption, methods for treating missing and…
Date issued:
Δεκ 2000
Generative AI enabled
Generative AI enabled
This paper considers ongoing and proposed reforms of the international financial system in light of Latin America's recent experience. Most proposals are based on one of three diagnoses:…
Date issued:
Νοε 2000
Generative AI enabled
Generative AI enabled
The growth of regional trading blocs has been one of the major developments in international relations in recent years. Virtually all countries are members of a bloc and many belong to more than one…
Date issued:
Νοε 2000
Eliot Weinberger (1949-), North American essayist and primary translator of Octavio Paz, PEN/Kolovakos Award (1992), National Book Critics Circle Award (1999).
Date issued:
Νοε 2000
Eliot Weinberger (1949-), editor y traductor estadounidense de Octavio Paz, y ganador de los Premios PEN/Kolovakos (1992) y Círculo de Críticos del Libro Nacional (1999).
Date issued:
Νοε 2000
This paper discusses the impact of electronic commerce on the private sector of developing countries and outlines the potential role of the Inter American Development Bank in promoting the use of ICT…
Date issued:
Νοε 2000
This document presents a concept paper, intended to assist the Andean/Amazon Basin countries to develop proposals, in consultation with indigenous organizations, for 1) the financing of consultations…
Date issued:
Νοε 2000
This publication aims to help donors, creditors and investors evaluate the performance, condition and risk of individual microfinance institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean, in hopes of…
Date issued:
Νοε 2000
Generative AI enabled
Generative AI enabled
El presente trabajo tiene como propósito presentar los principales resultados del análisis de la relación entre la existencia de mecanismos organizacionales tendientes a promover la transparencia y…
Date issued:
Νοε 2000
Generative AI enabled
Generative AI enabled
Economists are trained to think about trade policy reform in terms of changes in the levels of tariffs and quantitative restrictions and the shifts in relative prices brought about by these…
Date issued:
Νοε 2000
Generative AI enabled
Generative AI enabled
Stolper-Samuelson (SS) and Specific-Factors (SF) versions make opposite predictions about the correlation between prices and wages of certain types of workers (specific factors in industries) when…
Date issued:
Νοε 2000
Este documento presenta un trabajo conceptual cuya intención es ayudar a los países andinos y de la cuenca amazónica a desarrollar propuestas, en consulta con organizaciones indígenas, para que se le…
Date issued:
Νοε 2000
Estas actas resumen las actividades del taller sobre "Comercialización de los Servicios Hidrometeorológicos" que tuvo lugar en la sede del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo los días 3 y 4…
Date issued:
Νοε 2000
En el presente documento se muestran evidencias del impacto de las crisis económicas sobre la pobreza y la desigualdad en América Latina. Las crisis no solamente se traducen en mayores tasas de…
Date issued:
Νοε 2000
Generative AI enabled
Generative AI enabled
This paper explores, both formally and empirically, the political accountability mechanisms that lie behind the varying levels of public corruption and of effective governance taking place across…
Date issued:
Νοε 2000
Generative AI enabled
Generative AI enabled
This paper presents microeconomic simulation techniques to examine what drives differences in inequality across countries. The simulation decomposes cross-country inequality differences into the…