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Date issued: Jan 2003 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Sojo, Carlos;Behrman, Jere R.;Pérez de Rada, Ernesto;Jiménez, Wilson;Gaviria, Alejandro;Calderón Martínez, Lissette;Alves, Denisard;Teruel, Graciela;Funkhouser, Edward;Pérez Saínz, Juan Pablo;Gray-Molina, George;Székely, Miguel;Lardé de Palomo, Anabella;Rubalcava, Luis;Timmins, Christopher;Parker, Susan W.;Vides de Andrade, Ana Regina

Social exclusion is closely linked with many economic problems in Latin America, as it prevents people from reaching their full productive potential -in turn constraining growth and revenues- and…

Date issued: Jan 2003 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Ureta, Manuelita;Filgueira, Carlos;Menezes-Filho, Naercio Aquino;Duryea, Suzanne;Obuchi, Richard;Andersen, Lykke E.;Filgueira, Fernando;Bruni Celli, Josefina;Flórez, Carmen Elisa;Núñez, Jairo;Fuentes, Alvaro;Cox Edwards, Alejandra

This book uses micro-level data for 18 Latin American countries to examine the choices adolescents make in three areas of behavior: their time allocation toward school and work, their sexual behavior…

Date issued: Jan 2003 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Attanasio, Orazio P.;Székely, Miguel;Behrman, Jere R.;Duryea, Suzanne

This book breaks away from the exclusively macroeconomic focus of development studies to bring the spotlight to the place where decisions are made: households. Complementing this microeconomic view…

Date issued: Jan 2003
Author(s): Bair, Sheila C.

US banks and credit unions are determined to have Latin American immigrants as important and permanent members of their customer base. Community groups, government, and US business interests are…

Date issued: Jan 2003 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Aldaz-Carroll, Enrique;Birdsall, Nancy;Castañeda, Tarsicio;Brundtland, Gro Harlem;Sen, Amartya;Urrutia, Miguel;Myers, Robert G.;Morán, Ricardo

Escaping the Poverty Trap proposes early childhood investment policies that could decisively change the prospects for the next generation of the region's poor. Contributors include Nobel…

Date issued: Jan 2003
Author(s): Ramírez, Juan Carlos;Ventura-Dias, Vivianne;Bárcena, Alicia;Lahera, Eugenio

In this book, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean draws upon the Latin American and Caribbean region's experience in order to formulate a historical and…

Date issued: Jan 2003
Author(s): Castro, Claudio de Moura;Bernasconi, Andrés;Verdisco, Aimee;Levy, Daniel C.;Gomes, Candido;García, Norma M.;Regnier, Karla;Caruso, Luiz Antonio Cruz;Tigre, Paulo Bastos

This IDB book includes presentations from the international policy dialogue seminar entitled "New Options for Higher Education in Latin America: Lessons from the Community College Experience.…

Date issued: Jan 2003
Author(s): Castro, Claudio de Moura;Bernasconi, Andrés;Verdisco, Aimee;Levy, Daniel C.;Gomes, Candido;García, Norma M.;Regnier, Karla;Caruso, Luiz Antonio Cruz;Tigre, Paulo Bastos

Los institutos técnicos superiores son instituciones educativas que ofrecen capacitación postsecundaria por medio de programas más cortos que los de las universidades. Este libro analiza las…

Date issued: Jan 2003 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Calderón, César;Chong, Alberto E.;Stein, Ernesto H.

Some key criteria in the optimal currency area literature are that countries should join a currency union if they have closer international trade links and more symmetric business cycles. However,…

Date issued: Jan 2003
Author(s): Devlin, Robert;Estevadeordal, Antoni;Taylor, Alan M.;Venables, Anthony J.;Adserà, Alícia;Boix, Carles;Laird, Sam;Messerlin, Patrick A.;Torrent, Ramón;Cremona, Marise;Mattli, Walter;Jordana, Jacint;Ramió, Carles;Narula, Rajneesh;Evenett, Simon J.

This book analyzes the role of trade as a central pillar of the structural reform process and a bridge to capturing the dynamic development forces of an increasingly globalized world economy.