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Date issued: Abr 1999
Author(s): Cortes, Mariluz

This presentation discusses the matching grant program started in Argentina in August of 1996. The objective of the program is to help increase the international competitiveness of small and medium...

Date issued: Abr 1999 IA generativa habilitada
Author(s): Griffin, Keith

The fact that most poor people in Latin America live in urban areas had implied that poverty in the region is regarded as largely an urban phenomenon. However, this document exposes what available...

Date issued: Abr 1999 IA generativa habilitada
Author(s): Griffin, Keith

El hecho de que la mayoría de los pobres en América Latina viva en zonas urbanas, ha implicado que la pobreza en la región se considere esencialmente un fenómeno urbano. Sin embargo, datos...

Date issued: Abr 1999 IA generativa habilitada
Author(s): Rojas, Eduardo

This book examines approaches to involving the private sector in preserving urban heritage. These include interventions by public and private stakeholders in Cartagena, Colombia; operation of a mixed...

Date issued: Abr 1999 IA generativa habilitada
Author(s): De Camino, Ronnie

This paper analyzes the role of particular social and economic actors in the forest sector, and the impact of existing policies in the region. The aim is to visualize the options that are available...

Date issued: Abr 1999 IA generativa habilitada
Author(s): Dourojeanni, Marc J.

Included in this working paper is a discussion of the history of deforestation and forest degradation in Latin America and policy recommendations towards conserving natural forests. The author argues...

Date issued: Abr 1999 IA generativa habilitada
Author(s): Simula, Markku

This paper is an attempt to clarify some of the key issues on trade and environment in the forestry sector. The two main emerging issues in the international trade of forest products within Latin...

Date issued: Abr 1999
Author(s): Legovini, Arianna

This technical note presents some policy guidance on main targeting mechanisms for social programs and criteria for their evaluation. Several methods exist to target social programs to the desired...

Date issued: Mar 1999
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

The Annual Report contains a review of the Bank's operations in 1998.

Date issued: Mar 1999
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

Este Informe anual contiene un examen de las operaciones del Banco en 1998.

Date issued: Mar 1999
Author(s): Castañeda, Tarsicio;Aldaz-Carroll, Enrique

The purpose of this report is to investigate the effects of family background factors in determining the intergenerational transmission of poverty in Latin America, drawing on a review of recent...

Date issued: Mar 1999
Author(s): Hagnauer, H.;Rivera, Cecilia;Valcarcel, José A.

This documents explains the basic principles and concepts of the Business Development Centers (BDC) model of Swisscontact, a company providing professional and vocational training, environmental...

Date issued: Mar 1999
Author(s): Urani, André

This document describes the efforts of the Department of Labor of Rio de Janeiro to build a comprehensive institutional framework focused on the promotion of a long run, micro-firm based local...

Date issued: Mar 1999
Author(s): Angelelli, Pablo;Gatto, Francisco;Yoguel, Gabriel

El objetivo de este trabajo fue analizar --desde la perspectiva empresarial-- la importancia de los servicios de consultoría y capacitación como herramientas fundamentales para el desarrollo de las...

Date issued: Mar 1999
Author(s): Gibson, Alan

This presentation discusses business development services and providers, in the context of developing a stronger industry.

Date issued: Mar 1999
Author(s): Singer, Andrew

This document describes how pro-market aid works and gives practical lessons from specific schemes of aid projects. This presentation took place at the Inter-American Development Bank's...

Date issued: Mar 1999
Author(s): Steel, William F.

The Conference gave impetus to the changing paradigm for assistance to small enterprises: away from the direct provision of business development services by governments and donor agencies toward the...

Date issued: Mar 1999
Author(s): Schmitz, Hubert

This paper sums up the experience of a Brazilian cluster of small and medium enterprises in the Sinos Valley. It shows that cooperation amongst local enterprises strengthens their ability to compete...

Date issued: Mar 1999
Author(s): Humphrey, John

This presentation discusses the promotion of SMEs through enterprise networks. Some of the benefits of clustering can be obtained through the promotion of networks of enterprises, often numbering...

Date issued: Mar 1999
Author(s): Meyer-Stamer, Jörg

The presentation gives a brief overview of the most important aspects of adjustment strategies in the ceramic tile cluster in Criciúma and the textiles and clothing cluster in Itajaí Valley, Brazil....

Date issued: Mar 1999
Author(s): McKean, Cressida S.

This discussion paper addresses a study undertook a cross-country survey of nearly 300 exporters. The object of the survey was to determine what types of services exporters actually used, which ones...

Date issued: Mar 1999
Author(s): Alburquerque, Francisco

Este documento destaca las principales tendencias y líneas de acción en las iniciativas de fomento empresarial, desarrollo económico local y fortalecimiento municipal, que pueden deducirse de las...

Date issued: Mar 1999
Author(s): Valenti, Esteban

El presente documento describe el Sistema de Información Comercial y Tecnológica (TIPS, por sus siglas en ingles), un programa de las Naciones Unidas más concretamente del PNUD, el cual fue creado en...

Date issued: Mar 1999 IA generativa habilitada
Author(s): Ortiz de Zevallos, Gabriel;Eyzaguirre, Hugo;Palacios, Rosa María;Pollarolo, Pierina

El Perú experimentó entre 1990 y 1995 uno de los procesos de estabilización, liberalización, desregulación y privatización más ambiciosos de la región, en el marco de un contexto de "...

Date issued: Mar 1999 IA generativa habilitada
Author(s): Torre, Juan Carlos;Gerchunoff, Pablo

El presente trabajo propone desagregar el análisis de la experiencia argentina ocupándose de la trayectoria de un conjunto de políticas de reforma extraído del vasto cambio institucional realizado...

Date issued: Mar 1999 IA generativa habilitada
Author(s): Gray-Molina, George;Pérez de Rada, Ernesto;Yáñez, Ernesto

En este estudio se analiza el caso boliviano de reformas institucionales durante el periodo 1993-1997. Se centra la atención sobre tres reformas en particular: la Reforma de Participación Popular, la...

Date issued: Mar 1999
Author(s): Goldmark, Lara;Schor, Gabriel

A functional weakness of the training market is the extreme difficulty with which potential purchasers of "training" can gauge the quality of training programs in advance of payment....

Date issued: Mar 1999
Author(s): Beato, Paulina;Fuente, Carmen

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the issues involved when introducing consumer choice into the power sector. Section 1 describes the approaches used by several countries to introduce tetail...

Date issued: Mar 1999
Author(s): Ruiz Durán, Clemente

Esta presentación trata sobre el desarrollo de las PyMes mexicanas a partir de la apertura económica y la reforma institucional, políticas que fomentaron la innovación tecnológica. El análisis se...

Date issued: Mar 1999
Author(s): Lanusse, José Antonio

El presente documento expone la experiencia del Instituto de Investigaciones Socioeconómicas y Tecnológicas (INSOTEC) de Ecuador, que brinda asistencia técnica y capacitación para pequeños...

Date issued: Mar 1999
Author(s): Dini, Marco

En esta presentación se describen los programas de generación de redes empresariales más exitosos en América Latina y el Caribe. Además, se sintetizan principales enseñanzas metodológicas aprendidas...

Date issued: Mar 1999
Author(s): Aguilar Amilpa, Enrique;López, Fernando;Flores, Nelson;Morgan, Luis

El presente informe presenta los resultados de la cooperación técnica no reembolsable BID-CRRH N° ATN/SF-5758-RG. "Apoyo para políticas y estrategias de manejo integrado de recursos hídricos en...

Date issued: Mar 1999
Author(s): Buvinic, Mayra;Morrison, Andrew;Shifter, Michael

¿Qué es lo que gatilla la violencia en América Latina y el Caribe? ¿Qué se puede hacer para controlar la violencia tanto dentro como fuera del hogar? ¿Qué se puede aprender de la experiencia que...

Date issued: Mar 1999 IA generativa habilitada
Author(s): Gavin, Michael;Hausmann, Ricardo

Recent economic developments highlight Latin America's vulnerability to economic and financial turmoil that is triggered by events in distant corners of the globe. The Asian financial crisis...

Date issued: Mar 1999 IA generativa habilitada
Author(s): Fernández-Arias, Eduardo;Hausmann, Ricardo

Financial liberalization and integration have generated disappointing results. They were supposed to set up a win-win situation: capital would flow from capital-abundant, low-return, aging industrial...

Date issued: Mar 1999
Author(s): Buvinic, Mayra;Morrison, Andrew;Shifter, Michael

Considering the high prevalence of domestic and social violence and their linkages, the focus of this analysis is the broader subject of violence rather than the narrower one of criminal violence. A...

Date issued: Mar 1999 IA generativa habilitada
Author(s): Filgueira, Fernando;Moraes, Juan Andrés;Fernández, Carlos;Filgueira, Carlos;Moreira, Constanza

This paper argues for a multi-level explanatory model for understanding institutional reform. Using the case of Uruguay, the authors seek to show how a changed political environment combined with...

Date issued: Feb 1999
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

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: Feb 1999
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

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...

Date issued: Feb 1999
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

Forty-five limited edition prints (primarily etching and engraving, but also lithography, silkscreen, and computer-generated images, among others) by French printmakers under forty years of age....

Date issued: Feb 1999 IA generativa habilitada
Author(s): Díaz Solsona, Adolfo;Graziani, Carlo

El propósito del presente trabajo es identificar y estudiar los principales determinantes de los spreads en las tasas de interés bancarias en el Uruguay. Después de una detallada caracterización del...

Date issued: Feb 1999 IA generativa habilitada
Author(s): Dahan, Momi;Gaviria, Alejandro

In this paper, social mobility is measured by looking at the extent to which family background determines socioeconomic success. Roughly speaking, social mobility can be measure by means of two...

Date issued: Ene 1999
Author(s): Graham, Carol;Grindle, Merilee;Lora, Eduardo;Seddon Wallack, Jessica

This monograph is part of a larger investigation of the political economy of institutional reform in Latin America undertaken by the Latin American Research Network. It examines some hypotheses...

Date issued: Ene 1999
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

El segundo semestre de 1998 señala un punto de inflexión en la evolución macroeconómica de los países del MERCOSUR y deberá marcar, muy probablemente, el comienzo de una nueva fase en las relaciones...

Date issued: Ene 1999
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desenvolvimento

O segundo semestre de 1998 assinala um ponto de inflexão no desempenho econômico dos países do MERCOSUL e deverá marcar, muito provavelmente, o início de uma nova fase no relacionamento entre seus...

Date issued: Ene 1999
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

Este informe anual sobre medio ambiente y recursos naturales examina la acción del Banco durante 1998. Durante dicho año, el Banco continuó ejecutando el mandato establecido en el Octavo Aumento...

Date issued: Ene 1999
Author(s): Rodríguez, Ennio;Jessen, Anneke

On 4 July 1998, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary. CARICOM is one of the oldest integration schemes in the Western Hemisphere, the largest in terms of...

Date issued: Ene 1999 IA generativa habilitada
Author(s): Jacobs, Michael;Savedoff, William D.

This paper uses household data from two cities in Panama to evaluate the determinants of the tenure decision in the context of two models. The key factors explaining the decision to rent or own are...

Date issued: Ene 1999 IA generativa habilitada
Author(s): Gonzales de Olarte, Efraín;Larraín, Soledad;Strouss de Samper, Jacquin;Shifter, Michael;Schieck, Elaine;Poppe, Patricia;Buvinic, Mayra;Cervantes Islas, Francisco;Quesada, Charo;Orlando, María Beatriz;Jaffe, Peter;Lozano Ascencio, Rafael;Suderman, Marlies;Suárez, Elena M.;Macauley, Margarette May;Valdez, Enrique;Villanueva, Zarela;Morrison, Andrew;Granados Shiroma, Marcela;Da Rocha, Martha Mesquita;Lozano, Rafael;Gavilano Llosa, Pilar

Too Close to Home is a collection of essays by international authorities ranging from psychologists and doctors to economists and communication experts. Several authors analyze the economic and...

Date issued: Ene 1999 IA generativa habilitada
Author(s): Gonzales de Olarte, Efraín;Larraín, Soledad;Strouss de Samper, Jacquin;Shifter, Michael;Schieck, Elaine;Poppe, Patricia;Buvinic, Mayra;Cervantes Islas, Francisco;Quesada, Charo;Orlando, María Beatriz;Jaffe, Peter;Lozano Ascencio, Rafael;Suderman, Marlies;Suárez, Elena M.;Macauley, Margarette May;Valdez, Enrique;Villanueva, Zarela;Morrison, Andrew;Granados Shiroma, Marcela;Da Rocha, Martha Mesquita;Lozano, Rafael;Gavilano Llosa, Pilar

El costo del silencio es una colección de ensayos realizados por expertos internacionales provenientes de diversas disciplinas: desde psicólogos hasta doctores, desde economistas hasta comunicadores...