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Date issued:
Jan 1999
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Justice Beyond Our Borders looks at successful judicial systems and practices outside of Latin America that could serve as models for countries of the region. It examines large-scale judicial…
Date issued:
Jan 1999
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El objetivo de este libro consiste en presentar, pragmáticamente, algunos de los esfuerzos de reforma judicial que han sido exitosos fuera de la región o más allá de nuestras fronteras, indicando qué…
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Jan 1999
La presente publicación es el resumen de un estudio sobre el impacto de los cultivos ilícitos entre las comunidades indígenas de Colombia. El trabajo analiza la realidad de los indígenas de Colombia…
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Jan 1999
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While privatization of water, electricity, transport and communications infrastructure continues to gain momentum in Latin America, its success often depends on whether countries implement the…
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Jan 1999
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Latin America loses about nine trillion cubic meters of water each year, or some 30 percent of the water collected and treated for public consumption. While it is impossible for water systems to…
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Jan 1999
One-page 1999 map outlining remittance flows to Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Jan 1999
Financial turmoil is becoming a fact of life in Latin America. The 1990s have been characterized by enormous volatility in the magnitude and cost of capital flows. The correlation of capital swings…
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Jan 1999
In this paper, social mobility is measured by looking at the extent to which family background determines socioeconomic success. An index of social mobility for developing countries is proposed based…
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Jan 1999
This paper presents a rational political budget cycle model for an open economy, in which devaluations are delayed in the pre-election period so as to increase the electoral chances of the party in…
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Dec 1998
Este ensayo es el primero de una serie de estudios sobre la pobreza y las estrategias de reducción de la pobreza indígena que ofrece un insumo importante al documento formal de la estrategia del BID…
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Dec 1998
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.
Date issued:
Dec 1998
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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Dec 1998
Following the 1994 financial crisis, the rate of saving of the Mexican economy fell from 21.7 percent to 19.8 percent of GDP. The decline was associated with a reduction in the rate of external…
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Dec 1998
This paper (ENV-126) was originally presented at a National Science Foundation Workshop on Alternatives to Traditional Contingent Valuation Methods in Environmental Valuation, held at Vanderbilt…
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Dec 1998
Early Childhood Interventions (ECI) are ideally designed to achieve a series of mutually reinforcing objectives with the overarching goal of helping to improve equality of opportunity for children in…
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Dec 1998
The decade of the 1990s has witnessed a wave of regional integration initiatives in Latin America: more than 14 agreements -free trade areas or customs unions- since 1990 with a handful more in…
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Dec 1998
This paper provides an alternative approach to measuring the cost-effectiveness of educational interventions. The authors devised a questionnaire and gave it to ten international experts, mainly…
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Dec 1998
This document presents a coastal and marine resources management strategy for the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). The strategy provides new directions for Bank activities which significantly…
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Dec 1998
This technical study contains the strategy of the Inter-American Development Bank for its involvement in integrated water resources management in Latin America and the Caribbean. The strategy was…
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Dec 1998
Good practices in targeting, as highlighted here, with an additional effort to go beyond the letter of the law in the identification of project beneficiaries. Effective and efficient targeting…
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Dec 1998
The first part of this discussion paper attempts, within the inevitable data limitations, to present some picture of patterns of indigenous poverty over time. In addition, the first section examines…
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Dec 1998
Este documento fue presentado durante la II Cumbre de Presidentes, Santiago, Chile (17-19 de abril de 1998), en el cual se efectúa un análisis global de la evolución del proceso del Area de Libre…
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Dec 1998
"Incierto era ayer el nœmero de victimas que dejaron las incursiones de un grupo de autodefensas en Mapiripán (Meta). Aunque en el casco urbano fueron hallados tres cuerpos sin cabezas y otros…
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Dec 1998
Este documento (ENV 111) presenta los resultados del Taller sobre Inversiones en la Conservación de la Diversidad Biológica que se celebró en el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo el 28 de octubre de…
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Dec 1998
El presente documento (ENV-128) expone una estrategia de manejo de los recursos costeros y marinos para el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo. El manejo costero integrado se presenta como una…
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Dec 1998
En este informe técnico figura la estrategia del Banco para su participación en el manejo integrado de los recursos hídricos en América Latina y el Caribe. La estrategia fue formulada mediante un…
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Dec 1998
El objetivo del presente documento (ENV-124) es proponer opciones para aumentar la efectividad de los mercados de tierras rurales en América Latina y el Caribe. En la introducción se sitúa el tema de…
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Dec 1998
En relación con los países desarrollados, las ventajas comparativas de la región centroamericana se encuentran en procesos productivos de uso intensivo de mano de obra barata y recursos naturales.…
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Dec 1998
En el presente documento se ofrece una visión general de la forma en que las actividades crediticias y no crediticias del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo pueden contribuir a reducir la pobreza en…
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Dec 1998
El presente número de Microempresa ofrece dos artículos principales. En el primero se analizan modelos alternativos de esquemas garantías para instituciones microfinancieras (IFM). Una de las…
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Dec 1998
The second issue of the Microenterprise Development Review offers two main articles: "Microfinance Guarantees: Is There Another Model?" and "Regulating Microfinance." The first…
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Dec 1998
The debate on the effectiveness of foreign aid has intensified in recent years as aid has come under increasing budgetary pressures in donor countries. Whatever the merits of the opposing arguments,…
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Dec 1998
The model presented in the paper generates important implications concerning how the allocation of resources between children varies across income groups. In the model, poor and middle-income…
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Nov 1998
Fred D'Aguiar (1960-), UK/Guyanese novelist and poet, Guyana Prize for Poetry (1986), Malcolm X Poetry Prize (1986), Whitbread First Novel Award (1994).
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Nov 1998
Fred D'Aguiar (1960-), novelista y poeta inglés-guyanés, ganador de los Premios Poesía en Guyana (1986), Malcolm X de Poesía (1986), y Whitbread de Obras de Ficción (1944).
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Nov 1998
Presenta un cuadro amplio sobre el funcionamiento institucional del bloque que abarca el período anterior a la existencia del agrupamiento subregional, haciendo referencia a los acuerdos bilaterales…
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Nov 1998
Recent literature on Latin American countries shows that private expenses as a share of the total expenditures in health tend to be higher the lower the nation's level of economic development.…
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Nov 1998
En los esfuerzos por entender la crisis de balanza de pagos de diciembre de 1994, una pregunta ha ocupado lugar preponderante: ¿A que se ha debido el peculiar comportamiento que tuvo durante los…
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Nov 1998
Las causas de la "explosión de desempleo" y de la escasa creación de empleos ocurridas en la Argentina hasta 1995 y sus perspectivas futuras son los dos hilos conductores de este documento…
Date issued:
Oct 1998
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.
Date issued:
Oct 1998
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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Oct 1998
Fifty-six 20th century Mayan objects in fabric and wood from private collections and the permanent collection of the IDB, including photo enlargements of watercolors of indigenous costume by Carmen…
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Oct 1998
The OECD labor market has undergone major changes over the past two decades. The most evident of these changes is the rise in the number of job-seekers. In 1997, there were more than 35 million…
Date issued:
Oct 1998
The overall goal of the Bank's Women in Development (WID) Policy is to improve the socioeconomic situation of women in Latin America and the Caribbean and to improve the performance of Bank…
Date issued:
Oct 1998
The tables in this document present an inventory of some of the available poverty lines for all IDB member countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. The listed poverty lines are expressed as per…
Date issued:
Oct 1998
Empirical work suggests the presence of a public sector wage premium, the reasons for which are investigated in this paper. The results demonstrate a higher premium paid to women and premium…
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Oct 1998
En respuesta al creciente interés sobre las costas y sus recursos, en 1995 el BID comenzó a formular una Estrategia para el manejo de los recursos marinos y costeros. Teniendo como base la…
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Oct 1998
El presente es un informe resumido de una amplia investigación sobre violencia. El mismo fue desarrollado como parte del proyecto de investigación "La violencia en América Latina y el Caribe:…
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Oct 1998
Como respuesta a una convocatoria realizada por el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo, BID, el Centro de Investigaciones en Salud y Violencia, CISALVA, presentó a consideración de dicha entidad la…
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Oct 1998
El presente estudio tiene como objetivo analizar el ejercicio de la autonomía del Banco Central del Perú, así como los subsidios del Instituto Nacional deDefensa de la Competencia y de la Propiedad…