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Date issued: Jan 2008 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Stein, Ernesto H.;Bos, María Soledad;Duarte, Jesús;Cuevas, Mario;Alvarado, Nathalie;Beliz, Gustavo;Barreix, Alberto Daniel;Roca, Jerónimo;Auguste, Sebastián;Jones, Mark P.;Straface, Fernando;Sánchez, Mario;Behrman, Jere R.;Duryea, Suzanne;Maluccio, John A.;Kugler, Adriana;Gonzales, Alberto;Ñopo, Hugo R.;Carreño, Liliana;Espitia Aviléz, Gonzalo;Pineda Mannheim, Carlos R.;Vodusek, Ziga;Granados, Jaime;Zeballos, Erick;Gutiérrez Rocha, Mario

La estructura y selección de temas de la presente publicación responde, en su mayor parte, a un diagnóstico de crecimiento para Guatemala realizado en 2007, donde se identificaron un conjunto de…

Date issued: Jan 2008 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Machado, Roberto;Vergara, Rodrigo;Petrei, Humberto;Ratner, Gabriel;Iacoviello, Mercedes;Zuvanic, Laura;Claro de la Maza, Jorge;Letelier, Leonardo S.

A partir de un enfoque esencialmente comparativo, Un gasto que valga: los fondos públicos en Centroamérica y República Dominicana ayuda a comprender la problemática del gasto público en la región,…

Date issued: Jan 2008
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

La Oficina de Integridad Institucional (OII) es la principal dependencia del Grupo del BID encargada de los temas externos de integridad, fraude y corrupción. Como medida de la importancia que le…

Date issued: Jan 2008 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Gandelman, Eduardo;Gandelman, Néstor;Rothschild, Julie

Using micro data on judicial proceedings in Uruguay, this paper presents evidence that female defendants receive more favorable treatment in courts than male defendants. This is due to longer…

Date issued: Jan 2008 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Gandelman, Néstor

The gender of the household head has often been treated as an exogenous determinant of homeownership. This paper argues that several determinants of homeownership also affect household headship and…

Date issued: Jan 2008
Author(s): López Córdova, José Ernesto;Olmedo, Alexandra;Cerrutti, Marcela;Parrado, Emilio A.;Esquivel, Gerardo;Huerta-Pineda, Alejandra;Hanson, Gordon H.;Kugler, Maurice;Lotti, Emanuela;McKenzie, David;Rapoport, Hillel;Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina;Sainz, Tania;Pozo, Susan;Woodruff, Christopher;Orozco, Manuel;Fedewa, Rachel

The IDB's Integration & Trade Journal includes articles on the different aspects of integration in Latin America and the Caribbean, on hemispheric integration and, furthermore, on similar…

Date issued: Jan 2008
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

The Office of Institutional Integrity (OII) is the IDB Group's primary office for addressing external matters of integrity, fraud and corruption. As a measure of the significance that the IDB…

Date issued: Jan 2008
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) contributes to sustainable economic and social development in Latin America and the Caribbean in a wide variety of ways: through our lending operations,…

Date issued: Jan 2008 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Hall, Bronwyn H.;Maffioli, Alessandro

This working paper surveys impact evaluations of government Technology Development Funds (TDFs) in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Panama. All the evaluations were done at the recipient (firm) level…

Date issued: Jan 2008 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Powell, Andrew;Martínez, Juan Francisco

This paper analyzes alternative models for emerging sovereign ratings. Although a small number of economic fundamentals explain ratings reasonably well, variations in those economic fundamentals are…