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Mar 1999
This document describes the efforts of the Department of Labor of Rio de Janeiro to build a comprehensive institutional framework focused on the promotion of a long run, micro-firm based local…
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Mar 1999
El objetivo de este trabajo fue analizar --desde la perspectiva empresarial-- la importancia de los servicios de consultoría y capacitación como herramientas fundamentales para el desarrollo de las…
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Mar 1999
This presentation discusses business development services and providers, in the context of developing a stronger industry.
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Mar 1999
This document describes how pro-market aid works and gives practical lessons from specific schemes of aid projects. This presentation took place at the Inter-American Development Bank's…
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Mar 1999
The Conference gave impetus to the changing paradigm for assistance to small enterprises: away from the direct provision of business development services by governments and donor agencies toward the…
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Mar 1999
This paper sums up the experience of a Brazilian cluster of small and medium enterprises in the Sinos Valley. It shows that cooperation amongst local enterprises strengthens their ability to compete…
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Mar 1999
This presentation discusses the promotion of SMEs through enterprise networks. Some of the benefits of clustering can be obtained through the promotion of networks of enterprises, often numbering…
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Mar 1999
The presentation gives a brief overview of the most important aspects of adjustment strategies in the ceramic tile cluster in Criciúma and the textiles and clothing cluster in Itajaí Valley, Brazil.…
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Mar 1999
This discussion paper addresses a study undertook a cross-country survey of nearly 300 exporters. The object of the survey was to determine what types of services exporters actually used, which ones…
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Mar 1999
Este documento destaca las principales tendencias y líneas de acción en las iniciativas de fomento empresarial, desarrollo económico local y fortalecimiento municipal, que pueden deducirse de las…
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Mar 1999
El presente documento describe el Sistema de Información Comercial y Tecnológica (TIPS, por sus siglas en ingles), un programa de las Naciones Unidas más concretamente del PNUD, el cual fue creado en…
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Mar 1999
This paper argues for a multi-level explanatory model for understanding institutional reform. Using the case of Uruguay, the authors seek to show how a changed political environment combined with…
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Mar 1999
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the issues involved when introducing consumer choice into the power sector. Section 1 describes the approaches used by several countries to introduce tetail…
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Mar 1999
Considering the high prevalence of domestic and social violence and their linkages, the focus of this analysis is the broader subject of violence rather than the narrower one of criminal violence. A…
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Mar 1999
A functional weakness of the training market is the extreme difficulty with which potential purchasers of "training" can gauge the quality of training programs in advance of payment.…
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Mar 1999
El Perú experimentó entre 1990 y 1995 uno de los procesos de estabilización, liberalización, desregulación y privatización más ambiciosos de la región, en el marco de un contexto de "…
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Mar 1999
El presente trabajo propone desagregar el análisis de la experiencia argentina ocupándose de la trayectoria de un conjunto de políticas de reforma extraído del vasto cambio institucional realizado…
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Mar 1999
En este estudio se analiza el caso boliviano de reformas institucionales durante el periodo 1993-1997. Se centra la atención sobre tres reformas en particular: la Reforma de Participación Popular, la…
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Mar 1999
Esta presentación trata sobre el desarrollo de las PyMes mexicanas a partir de la apertura económica y la reforma institucional, políticas que fomentaron la innovación tecnológica. El análisis se…
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Mar 1999
En esta presentación se describen los programas de generación de redes empresariales más exitosos en América Latina y el Caribe. Además, se sintetizan principales enseñanzas metodológicas aprendidas…
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Mar 1999
El presente informe presenta los resultados de la cooperación técnica no reembolsable BID-CRRH N° ATN/SF-5758-RG. "Apoyo para políticas y estrategias de manejo integrado de recursos hídricos en…
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Mar 1999
El presente documento expone la experiencia del Instituto de Investigaciones Socioeconómicas y Tecnológicas (INSOTEC) de Ecuador, que brinda asistencia técnica y capacitación para pequeños…
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Mar 1999
¿Qué es lo que gatilla la violencia en América Latina y el Caribe? ¿Qué se puede hacer para controlar la violencia tanto dentro como fuera del hogar? ¿Qué se puede aprender de la experiencia que…
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Mar 1999
Recent economic developments highlight Latin America's vulnerability to economic and financial turmoil that is triggered by events in distant corners of the globe. The Asian financial crisis…
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Mar 1999
Financial liberalization and integration have generated disappointing results. They were supposed to set up a win-win situation: capital would flow from capital-abundant, low-return, aging industrial…
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Feb 1999
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.
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Feb 1999
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…
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Feb 1999
Forty-five limited edition prints (primarily etching and engraving, but also lithography, silkscreen, and computer-generated images, among others) by French printmakers under forty years of age.…
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Feb 1999
El propósito del presente trabajo es identificar y estudiar los principales determinantes de los spreads en las tasas de interés bancarias en el Uruguay. Después de una detallada caracterización del…
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Feb 1999
In this paper, social mobility is measured by looking at the extent to which family background determines socioeconomic success. Roughly speaking, social mobility can be measure by means of two…
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Jan 1999
This monograph is part of a larger investigation of the political economy of institutional reform in Latin America undertaken by the Latin American Research Network. It examines some hypotheses…
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Jan 1999
El segundo semestre de 1998 señala un punto de inflexión en la evolución macroeconómica de los países del MERCOSUR y deberá marcar, muy probablemente, el comienzo de una nueva fase en las relaciones…
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Jan 1999
O segundo semestre de 1998 assinala um ponto de inflexão no desempenho econômico dos países do MERCOSUL e deverá marcar, muito provavelmente, o início de uma nova fase no relacionamento entre seus…
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Jan 1999
In the winter of 1996, Canada's third largest financial institution, the Bank of Montreal, launched a now infamous advertising campaign in which it asked the question: Can a bank change? While…
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Jan 1999
Governments in many countries -at all levels of development- struggle with increasing budget deficits and soaring national debts. Over the last century, government spending, as a percentage of gross…
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Jan 1999
On 4 July 1998, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary. CARICOM is one of the oldest integration schemes in the Western Hemisphere, the largest in terms of…
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Jan 1999
The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the determinants of elderly health in the context of Mexico as a developing country and the relationship between health indicators and earnings in the…
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Jan 1999
This paper uses household data from two cities in Panama to evaluate the determinants of the tenure decision in the context of two models. The key factors explaining the decision to rent or own are…
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Jan 1999
Este informe anual sobre medio ambiente y recursos naturales examina la acción del Banco durante 1998. Durante dicho año, el Banco continuó ejecutando el mandato establecido en el Octavo Aumento…
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Jan 1999
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The book gives traffic engineers, planners, and managers a methodology to identify, analyze, and correct factors that cause traffic accidents. The procedures and materials required are of low cost…
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Jan 1999
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La publicación de esta obra pone a la disposición del público de habla hispana un documento de gran utilidad para reducir los accidentes de tránsito, que ya constituyen una de las principales causas…
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Jan 1999
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A Praz-nos publicar em língua Portuguesa uma obra que já demonstrou ser de grande utilidade para reduzir os acidentes de trânsito, uma das principais causas de morte no Brasil. Proporciona aos…
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Jan 1999
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Financial Risk Management outlines how to implement an objective and systematic risk management program that allows for effective control and evaluation of operations. This comprehensive guide is…
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Jan 1999
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Este libro pretende ayudar a las entidades de crédito y empresas de América Latina a implantar un modelo sistemático, objetivo y homogéneo de gestión de riesgos, que permita evaluar y controlar la…
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Jan 1999
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Recognizing the need to improve the quality of financial disclosure by private sector firms in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Inter-American Development Bank sponsored a conference in…
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Jan 1999
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Reconociendo la importancia de las buenas normas de contabilidad y auditoría, el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo, junto con la Comisión de Normas Internacionales de Contabilidad y la Asociación…
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Jan 1999
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Too Close to Home is a collection of essays by international authorities ranging from psychologists and doctors to economists and communication experts. Several authors analyze the economic and…
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Jan 1999
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El costo del silencio es una colección de ensayos realizados por expertos internacionales provenientes de diversas disciplinas: desde psicólogos hasta doctores, desde economistas hasta comunicadores…
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Jan 1999
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Microfinance and Poverty probes a set of assumptions that have arisen about microfinance and poverty reduction and that have become the conventional wisdom, although they have not been proven. These…
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Jan 1999
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Microfinanzas y pobreza es una obra técnica en la que se analizan pruebas y estudios con el objetivo de determinar qué microempresarios podrían beneficiarse de la ampliación de las microfinanzas, de…