Jan 1996
La preparación del presente estudio responde a una solicitud efectuada al Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo por parte del Gobierno de la República Federativa de Brasil para apoyar el análisis de la…
Jan 1996
El presente documento propone un Sistema de Indicadores Sociales (SIS) que facilite el análisis de las dimensiones, naturaleza y causas de la pobreza y desigualdad en América Latina y la vigilancia y…
Jan 1996
Salvo en los casos de los países mediterráneos, los ferrocarriles de los países del Cono Sur, con muy pocas excepciones, no fueron tendidos pensando en su interconexión o en el comercio con países…
Dec 1995
Sixty-two paintings, sculptures, majolica and graphics from the pre-Columbian era through World War II; from Panama's Reina Torres de Arauz Museum of Anthropology, the Museum of Panamanian…
Dec 1995
Edwidge Danticat (1969-), Haitian author of Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994), Pushcart Award (1995), and The Farming of the Bones (1999), American Book Award (1999).
Dec 1995
Edwidge Danticat (1969-), novelista haitiana, autora de Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994), ganadora del Premio Pushcart (1995); y The Farming of the Bones (1999), American Book Award (1999).
Dec 1995
Este trabajo procura extraer enseñanzas de la experiencia de las reformas de los sistemas de pensiones ya realizadas en Argentina, Chile, Colombia y Perú. Estas reformas han implantado las pensiones…
Nov 1995
The IDB reports on economic and social development trends in Latin America and the Caribbean and on the activities of the Bank. Published 10 times a year in English, Spanish, Portuguese and French.
Nov 1995
EL BID informa sobre el desarrollo económico y social de América Latina y el Caribe y sobre las actividades del Banco. Se publica 10 veces al año en inglés, español, portugués y francés.
Nov 1995
Baumol (1967) showed that the rate of growth of an economy slows down if a sector has lower productivity than others and the demand between goods is inelastic. This paper points out that trade is…
Nov 1995
The initial stages of exchange rate-based stabilizations have been generally characterized by a consumption boom, a deterioration of the trade balance and the current account, and an appreciation of…
Oct 1995
This paper reviews recent experience with international capital flows in Latin America, and discusses the policy issues that surround them. The paper is predicated on three basic premises. Capital…
Sep 1995
Homero Aridjis (1940-), Mexican poet, diplomat and author of over 25 books of poetry, founder of the environmental Group of 100, awarded by the United Nations.
Sep 1995
Homero Aridjis (1940-), poeta mexicano, diplomático y autor de más de veinticinco libros de poesía, ganador del Premio Global 500, otorgado por las Naciones Unidas.
Sep 1995
Thirty-eight works including drawings, photographs and paintings that illustrate the life and times of artist Pedro Figari in Montevideo, Uruguay; from Montevideo's National Library, the Juan…
Sep 1995
This paper presents a test to discriminate among behaviors of producers of exhaustible resources. The behavior of a competitive producer of an exhaustible resource should follow an Euler equation.…
Sep 1995
Twenty artworks by Latin American artists, from the IDB Collection.
Aug 1995
High inflation economies often do not exhibit smooth inflationary processes, but rather stop-go cycles. This paper relates these stop-go episodes of inflation to a political cycle. The government can…
Aug 1995
In this post-modern world of high capital mobility, countries are being disciplined by the anonymous capital market. One view of the situation -perhaps the prevalent view among economists- is that…
Aug 1995
This paper reviews modern techniques for estimating the benefits of goods which are not bought and sold in markets, paying special attention to the kinds of empirical studies that applied economists…