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Date issued: Jan 2006 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Stone, Leslie F.;Olgiati, Analía;Duryea, Suzanne

Approximately 14 percent of births are unregistered in Latin America according to estimates by UNICEF (2001). Children who lack an official birth certificate can be denied access to social services…

Date issued: Jan 2006 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Tanzi, Vito

This paper sketches the outline of "Theory of Fiscal Policy" in its most essential elements and outlines the assumptions implicit in it. It then argues that the reality can be far removed…

Date issued: Jan 2006 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Meardon, Stephen

During much of the previous era of globalization, from the 1860s until the First World War, U.S. tariffs were surprisingly high. Present-day economic historians have suggested that U.S. protection as…

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

The period between the second half of 2004 and the first half of 2005 can be characterized as a timeof convergence in regional macroeconomic trends. The countries of the Southern Common Market(…

Date issued: Jan 2006
Author(s): Carciofi, Ricardo;Dosman, Edgar J.;Iglesias, Enrique V.;Pollock, David H.;Toye, John;Toye, Richard;Birdsall, Nancy;Love, Joseph L.;Kerner, Daniel;Mallorquín, Carlos

Raúl Prebisch fue una de las grandes figuras de América Latina que trascendió desde los años treinta como personalidad regional e internacional preponderante. Por ello cabe honrar el centenario de su…

Date issued: Jan 2006 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): De Paiva Abreu, Marcelo

This paper's main concern is to assess which "industrial policies" would be meaningful for Latin America nowadays. The first section introduces the theme while the second section…

Date issued: Jan 2006
Author(s): Dosman, Edgar J.;Iglesias, Enrique V.;Pollock, David H.;Toye, John;Toye, Richard;Birdsall, Nancy;Love, Joseph L.;Kerner, Daniel;Mallorquín, Carlos

Raúl Prebisch was one of the great figures in Latin America, a dominant regional and international personality since the 1930s, and it is therefore fitting to honor the centenary of his birth in…

Date issued: Jan 2006
Author(s): Del Pilar Callizo, María

Este estudio ha sido realizado en el marco de una cooperación con Transparencia Paraguay. En los primeros meses del 2003 entró en vigencia en Paraguay la Ley 2.051 De Contrataciones Públicas, cuyo…

Date issued: Jan 2006
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

En 2005, se tomaron medidas de gran trascendencia para armonizar criterios entre los bancos multilaterales de desarrollo y la comunidad de organizaciones internacionales en la lucha contra el fraude…

Date issued: Jan 2006
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

Este estudio es un gran logro para La Red de Métodos Alternativos de Resolución de Conflictos (La Red ADR) del FOMIN. El reporte es innovador por varias razones: i) es el primer estudio comparativo…