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Ago 2001
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It is now widely recognized that we live in a knowledge-based economy; in fact, knowledge is the driving factor behind productivity growth. The share of knowledge-intensive sectors in the world...
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Ago 2001
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This survey of industrial policies in Latin American and the Caribbean makes two basic claims, namely: 1) that the late 1980s and the entire decade of the 1990s represented a transition from the...
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Ago 2001
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This paper discusses the economic performance of Latin America in the last decade, paying special attention to growth and the financial sector. In particular, it shows that external factors, such as...
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Ago 2001
This paper seeks to enlighten a complex and often polemical debate about public and private education. It argues that the distinction between private and public is less important than the rules of...
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Ago 2001
This paper has the following main objectives: to review the actual or potential impact of land titling and cadastre programs on indigenous populations; to recommend actions that would minimize risk...
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Ago 2001
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This paper discusses Suriname's efforts in regional integration initiatives, starting in the 1990s. In the first section, the authors identify some concrete initiatives undertaken by Suriname to...
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Ago 2001
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Los eventos registrados antes de la crisis financiera venezolana de 1994-95, ponen al descubierto la activa oposición que puede enfrentar la supervisión y regulación pública de las instituciones...
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Ago 2001
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Las fuerzas centrífugas de la globalización económica en los años noventa circularon paralelas con las centrípetas de la regionalización. Aunque aparentemente parecían dirigirse en direcciones...
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Ago 2001
Suriname gained autonomy from Holland in domestic affairs in 1955 and full political independence in 1975. "Self-sufficiency" -particularly in economic terms- became a strong motif in...
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Ago 2001
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INDES provides training programmes for public officials in Latin America and the Caribbean .Its current courses currently emphasize strategies for poverty reduction and the provision of social...
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Ago 2001
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El Instituto Interamericano para el Desarrollo Social (INDES) organiza programas de capacitación para funcionarios de gobierno en la América Latina y el Caribe. Estos programas enfatizan estrategias...
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Jul 2001
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This paper uses a new data set to study household responses to adverse income shocks in seven Latin American countries. The results show (i) that households respond to income shocks mainly by...
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Jul 2001
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La información aquí contenida y analizada fue recolectada a través de entrevistas a responsables y directivos de las instituciones y entidades nacionales que han participado en el diseño,...
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Jul 2001
Este trabajo explora el potencial que tiene la educación a distancia para ser incorporada por los educadores, como una estrategia de expansión para la educación secundaria. Diversos ministerios...
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Jul 2001
This paper explores the potential for educational planners to incorporate distance education into their strategies for the expansion of secondary education.
Date issued:
Jul 2001
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This paper will discuss the experience of two rural education models: Tutorial Learning System (TLS) and New School methodology for Post-Primary.
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Jul 2001
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This study report includes relevant information about some of the probable reasons why socially disadvantaged youths and adolescents in the region drop out of school. The specific case studied was...
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Jul 2001
Brenda F. Berrian, North American Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, author of Awakening Spaces: French Caribbean Popular Songs, Music and Culture (2000).
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Jul 2001
Branda F. Berrian, profesora estadounidense de la Universidad de Pittsburg y autora del libro Awakening Spaces: French Caribbean Popular Songs, Music and Culture (2000).
Date issued:
Jul 2001
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This paper analyzes the reaction of teachers' and doctors' unions to a series of social sector reforms in the region, including administrative decentralization, provider payment mechanisms...
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Jul 2001
Pese a las manifestaciones gubernamentales en el sentido que el MERCOSUR continuará desempeñando en los próximos años un rol protagónico en la estrategia de inserción internacional de los países...
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Jul 2001
MERCOSUR has become less operational, despite government claims that it will continue to play a leading role in the international insertion strategies of its member countries for some years. The...
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Jul 2001
This paper briefly discusses some of the issues that must be grappled with when analyzing the impact that the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has had -and will have in the future- on the...
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Jul 2001
This paper proposes a conceptual framework for understanding and analyzing how business regulations affect small and microenterprises. In doing so, it also makes a case for why particular attention...
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Jul 2001
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Indonesia tiene una historia de un siglo en proyectos de micro finanzas, que va desde el establecimiento del Badan Kredit Desa (instituciones de crédito comunitario) en 1898, hasta el presente, con...
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Jul 2001
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En los noventa, Colombia transitó por cambios macroeconómicos, políticos y sociales importantes. Al mismo tiempo, la proporción y el número absoluto de la población en condiciones de pobreza aumentó...
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Jul 2001
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El presente documento trata sobre cuatro términos muy frecuentemente utilizados en los diálogos y debates sobre política social conforman un conjunto de criterios que dan fundamento a la formación,...
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Jul 2001
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"Una Obra en Marcha" recoge las ponencias de un seminario internacional de expertos en relaciones entre cultura y desarrollo. Los participantes muestran cómo la cultura, parte del...
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Jul 2001
El presente documento tiene por objetivo presentar de manera sistemática las actividades de prevención y control de la violencia que emprendió la Alcaldía Mayor de Bogotá, Colombia, durante el...
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Jul 2001
La presentación plantea la comunicación una herramienta principal para promover la convivencia. Se presenta un proyecto para promover la convivencia pacífica a través de la comunicación donde se...
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Jul 2001
Nowhere in the Americas is microfinance as far advanced as in Bolivia. Using the examples of BancoSol, Caja los Andes and FIE -Bolivia's three largest microfinance institutions- this article...
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Jul 2001
La presente edición de Microempresa cuenta un artículo principal donde se examina la evolución de las microfinanzas, tomando Bolivia como estudio de caso. Se utilizan como ejemplo las tres mayores...
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Jul 2001
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This paper describes "Nicaragua's Strengthened Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy" (SGPRS). It reflects years of studies, hard-earned experience, and a deepening consultative...
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Jun 2001
This study (RE-250) reviews six case studies in Bolivia, Peru, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua to try and determine if citizen participation processes have attained or not the...
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Jun 2001
En este informe (RE-250) se presentan seis estudios de casos tendientes a establecer si el proceso de participación ciudadana ha logrado o no generar los beneficios y resultados que de él se...
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Jun 2001
The exhibition displayed 50 pieces, comprising three types of work: (1) prehispanic-Mayan reliefs from Copán, (2) Lenca ceramics, and (3) paintings by three artists and various other objects. The...
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Jun 2001
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El objetivo de este documento es averiguar lo que sabemos, tanto a nivel conceptual como de la experiencia (tanto de ALC como de otros lugares), sobre los tradeoffs de usar diferentes planes de...
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Jun 2001
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En términos históricos, la mejora de las condiciones de vida que se ha llevado a cabo en el mundo en desarrollo durante las últimas décadas ha sido bastante extraordinaria.
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Jun 2001
These short presentations will guide the broad dialogue among members of the Network. The subjects and presentations included in the agenda were prepared on the basis of suggestions made by members...
Date issued:
Jun 2001
Este documento presenta la Red para la Reducción de la Pobreza y la Protección Social en la I Reunión Hemisférica de la Red de Reducción de la Pobreza y Protección Social del Diálogo Regional de...
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Jun 2001
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This paper was commissioned for the 1st Meeting of the Poverty Reduction and Social Protection Network held on June 11 and 12, 2001 in Washington, D.C. This paper is the initial systematization of...
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Jun 2001
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El presente trabajo constituye una primera sistematización de las respuestas al Cuestionario sobre Programas de Protección Social y Combate a la Pobreza en América Latina y el Caribe, elaborado por...
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Jun 2001
Frente a los profundos y acelerados procesos de cambio que tuvieron lugar en los últimos años, el Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD) y el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo, a...
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Jun 2001
The aim of this paper is to offer a brief analysis of the social investment funds for indigenous people that have been financed by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and to consider how far...
Date issued:
Jun 2001
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High inequality has long been regarded as one of the main problems facing Latin American countries. To understand better the determinants of inequality and to help guide thinking about policy options...
Date issued:
Jun 2001
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In this paper we propose the use of an alternative methodology to track low incomes based on Atkinson's (1970) family of "equally distributed equivalent income" functions, which are...
The 1990s in Latin America: Another Decade of Persistent Inequality, but with Somewhat Lower Poverty
Date issued:
Jun 2001
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This paper processes 76 household surveys from 17 Latin American countries to document changes in poverty and inequality during the 1990s. We show that there is no country in Latin America where...
Date issued:
Jun 2001
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This study is a first attempt to develop a new orientation on environmental management in the Latin America and Caribbean. The development towards a more strategic environmental management entails an...
Date issued:
Mayo 2001
Este documento fue comisionado por la Red de Integración y Comercio del Diálogo Regional de Política para la II Reunión Hemisférica celebrada los días 22 y 23 de mayo de 2001. Ni la integración...
Date issued:
Mayo 2001
The European Community has exclusive competence in three main areas: trade, monetary policy and those aspects where internal community legislation and external obligations overlapped.