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Date issued: Feb 2006 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Arias, Diego;Covarrubias, Katia

This study analyses the opportunities and challenges presented by agricultural insurance instruments in the deepening of financial services in rural areas in Mesoamerica. It outlines a public policy…

Date issued: Feb 2006 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Cárdenas, Mauricio;Junguito, Roberto;Pachón, Mónica

The 1991 Colombian Constitution strengthened the checks and balances of the political system by enhancing the role of Congress and the Constitutional Court, while somewhat limiting the powers of the…

Date issued: Feb 2006 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Melo, Alberto;Rodríguez-Clare, Andrés

This paper examines the evolution of productive development policies in Latin America in the last half century, with an emphasis on the post-reform period. The paper begins with a review of the…

Date issued: Feb 2006
Author(s): Marshall, Jeffery H.;Calderón, Valentina

This study provides detailed accounting of the current levels of social exclusion in education and factors contributing to them. It provides a quantitative and qualitative accounting and profiling of…

Date issued: Feb 2006
Author(s): Petrei, Humberto;Trejos, Juan Diego;Thompson Chacón, Eric

El objetivo de este trabajo es estudiar la gestión pública social para formular propuestas a fin de mejorar la administración, focalización y el orden de prioridades de los gastos sociales. Con ello…

Date issued: Feb 2006
Author(s): Taylor, J. Edward;Yúñez Naude, Antonio;Jesurun-Clements, Nancy;Baumeister, Eduardo;Amaya, Ana Lissette;Canales, Ramón;Alemán, Miguel;Delmelle, Guy

El presente trabajo se enmarca en el contexto de la ratificación de Nicaragua del tratado de libre comercio DR-CAFTA en 2005. El objetivo del estudio es desarrollar un modelo que permita analizar los…

Date issued: Jan 2006
Author(s): Villar, Rodrigo

É um prazer compartilhar com vocês a edição de ¿Colaborando com o Setor Privado: o caso de um projeto entra 21 em Salvador, Bahia, Brasil¿. Esta publicação mostra como o nstituto de Hospitalidade…

Date issued: Jan 2006
Author(s): Villar, Rodrigo

Collaborating with the Private Sector: A Case Study of an entra 21 project in Brazil, which presents the factors that enabled an NGO in Salvador, Brazil, the Instituto de ospitalidade, to…

Date issued: Jan 2006
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

The Guaraní have an aesthetic view of Earth. For the Guaraní, the Earth is a beautiful body on which trees are like long hair, the skin is sometimes shining, sparkling, and manifestations of soil…

Date issued: Jan 2006 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Rodríguez, Francisco

Existing work in growth empirics either assumes linearity of the growth function or attempts to capture non-linearities by the addition of a small number of quadratic or multiplicative interaction…