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Date issued: Mar 2006
Author(s): Sabatini, Francisco

The cities offer Latin America and the Caribbean their best opportunity for economic and social development. Aside from concentrating on more than two thirds of the population, it is estimated that...

Date issued: Mar 2006
Author(s): Orozco, Manuel

This is the last version available of "Diasporas, Philanthropy and Hometown Associations: The Central American Experience". This paper looks at the experience of Hometown Associations (HTAs...

Date issued: Mar 2006 IA generativa habilitada
Author(s): Chong, Alberto E.

Based on research in linguistics and psychology I use language speech as a reflection of acculturation. I use individual and city-level data from the Lake Ontario area in Canada and study the...

Date issued: Mar 2006 IA generativa habilitada
Author(s): Jaimovich, Dany;Panizza, Ugo;Campos, Camil F.S.

This paper shows that budget deficits account for a relatively small fraction of debt growth and that stock-flow reconciliation, which is often considered a residual entity, is one of the key...

Date issued: Mar 2006 IA generativa habilitada
Author(s): Iannelli, Norberto;Giordano, Paolo;Volpe Martincus, Christian;Zeballos, Erick

El presente documento de discusión (Issues Paper) no pretende abracar todos los elementos que se abordarán en la Nota Temática, sino que se limita a identificar de manera preliminar algunos temas de...

Date issued: Mar 2006
Author(s): Devlin, Robert;Estevadeordal, Antoni;Suominen, Kati;Shearer, Matthew;Miller, Eric T.;Cornejo, Rafael;Mesquita Moreira, Mauricio;Stabilito, Augusto;Sobral de Elía, Mariana;Skinner, Martha

El objetivo de este documento es informar al personal del Banco, así como a otros interesados sobre los últimos desarrollos en integración y comercio en los países del Hemisferio Occidental, y, entre...

Date issued: Mar 2006
Author(s): Murillo Torrecilla, F. Javier

Esta presentación fue comisionada por la Red de Educación del Diálogo Regional de Política para la Reunión Subregional de Centroamérica celebrada los días 16 y 17 de marzo de 2006 en República...

Date issued: Mar 2006 IA generativa habilitada
Author(s): Calderón, María Cecilia;Chong, Alberto E.;Gradstein, Mark

The aim of this paper is to provide empirical evidence on the link between foreign aid and income inequality for the period 1973-2002. Since simple cross-country regressions cannot be taken as true...

Date issued: Mar 2006 IA generativa habilitada
Author(s): Galdo, Virgilio;Chong, Alberto E.

Critics of globalization claim that foreign ownership of privatized firms is linked to negative post-privatization labor outcomes, such as more firing and less hiring. This paper uses new firm-level...

Date issued: Mar 2006 IA generativa habilitada
Author(s): Gradstein, Mark;Chong, Alberto E.

Since efforts by industrial countries to increase the amount of foreign aid they provide have been on the rise recently, it is important to understand the determinants involved. This paper examines...

Date issued: Mar 2006 IA generativa habilitada
Author(s): Borensztein, Eduardo;Panizza, Ugo

This paper uses a difference-in-difference methodology similar to the one originally proposed by Rajan and Zingales (1998) to test whether defaulting hurts the more export-oriented industries. Strong...

Date issued: Mar 2006 IA generativa habilitada
Author(s): Licha, Isabel;Molina, Carlos Gerardo

Con base en el análisis de experiencias relevantes y de literatura especializada en el tema, proponemos en este trabajo un decálogo de criterios para enmarcar la coordinación de las políticas...

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

El objetivo de esta herramienta es proporcionar elementos sistemáticos y prácticas esenciales para que los procesos y las actividades que conducen a la reintegración social de los niños de la calle...

Date issued: Mar 2006 IA generativa habilitada
Author(s): Echeverry, Juan Carlos;Bonilla, Jorge Alexander;Moya, Andrés

Este documento fue comisionado por la Red de Gestión Pública y Transparencia del Diálogo Regional de Política para la VII Reunión Hemisférica celebrada los días 8 y 9 de mayo de 2006.

Date issued: Mar 2006
Author(s): Jul, Ana María

Este documento constituye el informe elaborado bajo la consultoría sobre operaciones extrapresupuestarias que se realizó por encargo del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo para la reunión de la Red...

Date issued: Mar 2006
Author(s): Devoto, Florencia

This study was part of the analytic work carried out in preparation for the Bank's Strategy with Belize in 2004. The objective of this document is to examine the relationship between economic...

Date issued: Mar 2006
Author(s): Ordóñez Bustamante, Dwight;Bracamonte Bardález, Patricia

La presente investigación tiene como objetivo examinar la interacción entre la falta de registro de nacimiento y/o de cédula de identidad y el acceso a beneficios y programas sociales en niño(as) y...

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

The purpose of this document (RE-314) is to present OVE's evaluation of the country portfolio review reports (CPRs). This report is divided into four chapters. Chapter two presents the frame of...

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

El presente documento (RE-314) tiene por objetivo presentar la evaluación realizada por OVE a los informes de revisión de cartera (IRC) en la cual se pretende responder tres preguntas básicas: a. ¿...

Date issued: Mar 2006 IA generativa habilitada
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

This publication takes a comprehensive view of all the action areas that need to be addressed in a coordinated and integrated manner to achieve sustainable development for all. The articles included...

Date issued: Mar 2006 IA generativa habilitada
Author(s): De Paiva Abreu, Marcelo

The interest of specific Latin American economies in the successful completion of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) negotiations is very heterogeneous. A list of relevant factors to explain...

Date issued: Mar 2006 IA generativa habilitada
Author(s): Jul, Ana María

This study assesses the planning, implementation, programming, budgeting and evaluation of extra budgetary and tax expenditures for Brazil, Chile, Ecuador and Mexico. The off-budget operations of...

Date issued: Mar 2006 IA generativa habilitada
Author(s): Alston, Lee J.;Melo, Marcus André;Mueller, Bernardo;Pereira, Carlos

This paper analyses the dynamics of policy-making among the various political institutions in Brazil. The authors find that the driving force behind policies in Brazil is the strong set of powers...

Date issued: Mar 2006
Author(s): Pereyra, Andrés;Tansini, Ruben;Garcé, Adolfo;Chasquetti, Daniel;Buquet, Daniel;Moraes, Juan Andrés

This paper analyses the dynamics of policymaking among the various political institutions in Uruguay. The authors find that first, there are relatively stable policies, such as those allowing for...

Date issued: Mar 2006 IA generativa habilitada
Author(s): Riaño, Alejandro;Chong, Alberto E.

This paper studies the link between the political and institutional context and privatization sales prices. The latter serves as a measure for assessing the relative performance of the privatization...