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Date issued:
Dec 1997
BID América cubre las tendencias del desarrollo económico y social de América Latina y el Caribe y las actividades del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo. Se publica 10 veces al año en castellano e…
Date issued:
Dec 1997
Forty-two paintings, lithographs and sculptures in wood, bronze and stone, that illustrate the 18th century colonial era, early 20th century and the 1960s and '70s; from the National Gallery of…
Date issued:
Dec 1997
In this best practice paper a mixed integer optimization approach to the selection of sanitary landfill site sizes and locations in a regional context is explained and illustrated using stylized cost…
Date issued:
Dec 1997
This paper analyzes the property rights/deforestation linkage in Latin America. The analysis recognizes two separate areas where tenure issues have an effect on land clearing pressures. The first…
Date issued:
Dec 1997
Conservation of freshwater biodiversity has been seriously neglected throughout the world, and entire ecosystems are threatened with extinction. Unfortunately, freshwater sustainability issues do not…
Date issued:
Dec 1997
This paper discusses privatization among investments in infrastructure. The goal of this paper is to present a new auction mechanism that solves many of the problems that have hindered the use of…
Date issued:
Dec 1997
The objective of this paper is to analyze some issues and challenges related to private toll road developments in Latin American countries and explore new schemes to mitigate some problems that often…
Date issued:
Dec 1997
This paper discusses the radical change of the role of the public sector in the financing of infrastructure projects during the nineties. The generalized response to the new environment has taken the…
Estado de evolución en la elaboración e implementación de las Normas ISO 14.000 y CODEX Alimentarius
Date issued:
Dec 1997
Los últimos años han sido testigos de un profundo cambio en el paradigma del desarrollo seguido por los países de la región. Esos cambios han respondido, a su vez, a los que se produjeron en el…
Date issued:
Dec 1997
Durante 1997 los países del MERCOSUR experimentaron una nueva aceleración en el ritmo de crecimiento económico y una caída en las tasas de inflación. Este favorable desempeño fue acompañado por una…