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Date issued: May 2001
Author(s): Torres A., Federico

Ofrece información acerca de las remesas familiares, poniendo especial énfasis en el capital de los migrantes. Asimismo, menciona la importancia de las remesas colectivas en América Latina.

Date issued: May 2001
Author(s): Banco Multisectorial de Inversiones

Presentación que da a conocer la situación de los migrantes salvadoreños en Estados Unidos. Asimismo, brinda una propuesta para fomentar el uso productivo de las remesas.

Date issued: May 2001
Author(s): Granados, Jaime

En octubre de 1993, los cinco países de Centroamérica (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras y Nicaragua) suscribieron en Guatemala el Protocolo al Tratado General de Integración Económica…

Date issued: May 2001
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

The paper provides information and analysis in support of the Bank's subnational development strategy (GN-2026). The strategy will guide future Bank operations in support of decentralization to…

Date issued: May 2001 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Estevadeordal, Antoni;Devlin, Robert

The centrifugal forces of economic globalization in the 1990's ran parallel with centripetal forces of regionalization. While seemingly pulling in opposite directions, the two forces reflected…

Date issued: May 2001
Author(s): Giuffrida, Antonio;Iunes, Roberto F.;Savedoff, William D.

This study describes the health dimension and some economic aspects of occupational safety in Latin America and the Caribbean. The study is the result of a joint effort by the IDB's Region 3 and…

Date issued: May 2001
Author(s): Giuffrida, Antonio

The IDB has supported the governments of Latin America and the Caribbean in their efforts to improve their pharmaceutical systems. The objectives of this paper are twofold. First, it intends to…

Date issued: May 2001 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Attanasio, Orazio P.;Székely, Miguel

This paper presents evidence on the relationship between economic shocks to relative male wages and changes in household consumption in Mexico during the 1990s, which is a period characterized by…

Date issued: Apr 2001 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Oszlak, Oscar

This document is part of a series of studies commissioned by the Inter-American Development Bank for the first meeting of the Regional Policy Dialogue in Transparency and Public Policy, to be held in…

Date issued: Apr 2001 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Longo, Francisco

This document is part of a series of papers commissioned by the IDB for the first meeting of the Regional Policy Dialogue of Public Management and Transparency that will take place at the IDB…

Date issued: Apr 2001 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Echebarría, Koldo

This document is part of a series of studies commissioned by the Inter-American Development Bank for the first meeting of the Regional Policy Dialogue in Transparency and Public Policy, to be held in…

Date issued: Apr 2001 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Oszlak, Oscar

Este documento fue comisionado por la Red de Gestión Pública y Transparencia del Diálogo Regional de Política para la 1a Reunión Hemisférica celebrada los días 26 y 27 de abril de 2001. El presente…

Date issued: Apr 2001 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Longo, Francisco

Este documento fue comisionado por la Red de Gestión Pública y Transparencia del Diálogo Regional de Política para la I Reunión Hemsférica celebrada los días 26 y 27 de abril de 2001. El objeto de…

Date issued: Apr 2001 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Echebarría, Koldo

El presente documento es parte de una serie de trabajos comisionados por el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo para la primera reunión del Diálogo Regional de Política de Gestión Pública y…

Date issued: Apr 2001 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Jordana, Jacint

En el presente trabajo se analizan los ejes de descentralización, mecanismos de coordinación y relaciones intergubernamentales en los procesos de descentralización en América Latina. En la primera…

Date issued: Apr 2001 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Simula, Markku

En este trabajo se enfoca la evaluación del comercio y del manejo sustentable de los recursos naturales renovables en el recurso bosque. Los dos temas principales emergentes en el comercio…

Date issued: Apr 2001 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Damiani, Octavio

Este estudio analiza el papel del Estado en la transformación económica de tres regiones de agricultura irrigada en el Valle del Rio São Francisco en el nordeste de Brasil. El objetivo es entender…

Date issued: Apr 2001 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Chong, Alberto E.

The aim of this paper is to provide comprehensive empirical evidence on recent theories that link democracy and income inequality for the period 1960-1995. In simple cross-country regressions I find…

Date issued: Apr 2001 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Calderón, César;Chong, Alberto E.

We provide evidence on the link between infrastructure development and the distribution of income for the period 1960-1995. To do this, we use several proxies such as roads, railways,…

Date issued: Apr 2001 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Scollay, Robert

The successful conclusion of the Uruguay Round and the establishment of the WTO marked an apparently decisive reassertion of the primacy of the multilateral trading system.

Date issued: Apr 2001 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Scollay, Robert

Promediando la década de los noventa, la región Asia-Pacífico parecía haber alcanzado un grado excepcional de coherencia entre las aproximaciones regional y multilateral a la liberalización comercial…

Date issued: Apr 2001
Author(s): Martin, Dougal

This study surveys governance issues in Suriname. It looks at the Constitution, the National Assembly, the executive branch of government (particularly the civil service and budgetary management),…

Date issued: Apr 2001
Author(s): Martin, Dougal

This study, which is in Dutch, surveys governance issues in Suriname. It looks at the Constitution, the National Assembly, the executive branch of government (particularly the civil service and…

Date issued: Apr 2001 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Galindo, Arturo;Micco, Alejandro

We develop a model in which the elasticity of credit to exogenous shocks depends on creditor rights regulations. We show that an increase in creditor protection reduces the elasticity of credit…

Date issued: Apr 2001 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Galindo, Arturo;Calderón, César;Chong, Alberto E.

We explore the links between trust and a broad range of financial structure and development measures. Our base sample is a cross section of 48 countries and the analysis covers the period 1980-1994.…