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Date issued:
Juil 2000
This issue of Microenterprise Development Review examines the steps needed for microentrepreneurs who want to register his or her own business. In addition, another article addresses a recent study…
Date issued:
Juil 2000
La presente edición de Microempresa incluye dos artículos principales. En el primero, se examinan los pasos que se exigen para registrar una microempresa en América Latina. El otro artículo refiere a…
Date issued:
Juil 2000
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According to conventional wisdom, health and education are important factors for economic and social development: they improve productivity and income distribution, and the poor gain the most.…
Date issued:
Juil 2000
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Según el pensamiento convencional, la salud y la educación son factores esenciales para el desarrollo económico y social: permiten mejorar la distribución del ingreso y la productividad, y además,…
Date issued:
juin 2000
Ian Gregory Strachan (1969-), Bahamian writer, Chair of English Studies at College of the Bahamas, author of God's Angry Babies (1997) and Paradise and Plantation (2002).
Date issued:
juin 2000
Ian Gregory Strachan (1969-), escritor de Bahamas, encargado del departamento de Inglés en el Instituto de Bahamas, autor de la novela God's Angry Babies (1997) y Paradise and Plantation (2002).
Date issued:
juin 2000
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:
juin 2000
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:
juin 2000
Fifty paintings, drawings, sculptures, and popular objects used in the celebration of Junkanoo, from private collections. The exhibition illustrated the development of Bahamian art since…
Date issued:
juin 2000
Financing the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity has been called one of the greatest challenges. At the heart of this challenge lies the low financial and political value which is often…
Date issued:
juin 2000
This paper discusses the Colombian Health Reform, a reform seeking to equalize access to health services for the poor by giving them insurance that can purchase care from public or private providers…
Date issued:
juin 2000
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Este artículo examina algunas de las hipótesis sobre las estrategias de deuda que a priori parece haber seguido el gobierno mexicano, partiendo de un examen de la evolución y composición de la misma…
Date issued:
juin 2000
Presentación que contiene información acerca del microcrédito. Asimismo, da a conocer aspectos importantes para desarrollar un marco legal y de supervisión del microcrédito.
Date issued:
juin 2000
Presentación que brinda información sobre los desafíos del gobierno, de los órganos de supervisión y para las entidades financieras, en materia de microfinanzas.
Date issued:
juin 2000
"Capital social y cultura: claves olvidadas del desarrollo" refleja la preocupación de su autor por examinar y redefinir al desarrollo desde una perspectiva que se despega del pensamiento…
Date issued:
juin 2000
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The wave of structural reforms in Latin America and elsewhere has stimulated the development of a wide body of theoretical literature on the political economy of reform, i.e., the study of the…
Date issued:
juin 2000
El objetivo principal de este informe es presentar un panorama general de los distintos mecanismos de financiamiento probados y experimentales que pueden emplearse para alentar la conservación y el…
Date issued:
juin 2000
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Recent improvements in the Internet are revolutionizing the way companies market their services. This book examines the effectiveness of e-mail promotion as a complement to marketing strategies used…
Date issued:
juin 2000
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The adoption of emergency employment and short-term training programs to provide income support to the population affected by the episodes of economic volatility since 1995 reveals the failure of the…
Date issued:
juin 2000
This paper is devoted to examining the scope, outcomes and shortcomings of reforms aimed at introducing competition in the production, transport, distribution and retail segments of the gas industry…
Date issued:
juin 2000
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Abundant empirical evidence links well-functioning institutions and good governance to better economic and social outcomes. It is thus an important challenge to determine which conjunction of factors…
Date issued:
mai 2000
María Susana Azzi (1952-), Argentine cultural anthropologist, Board Member of the Astor Piazzolla Foundation and the National Academy of Tango in Buenos Aires.
Date issued:
mai 2000
María Susana Azzi (1952-), antropóloga cultural argentina, miembro del directorio de la Fundación Astor Piazzolla y de la Academia Nacional del Tango en Buenos Aires.
Date issued:
mai 2000
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Los seis casos de inversión privada en infraestructura muestran marcadas diferencias tanto en términos del desempeño empresarial como en relación al nivel de adecuación de las modalidades…
Date issued:
mai 2000
El presente estudio analiza los cambios demográficos, socio-económicos y culturales actuales e históricos de las comunidades indígenas tradicionales y de su medio ambiente que han resultado en una…
Date issued:
mai 2000
A pesar del esfuerzo de los organismos multilaterales para erradicar la pobreza en la población indígena, la brecha entre los indígenas y el resto de la población en lugar de disminuir ha aumentado,…
Date issued:
mai 2000
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The present study describes the changes in the traditional European model of higher education, its successes as well as failures. The remarkable expansion of higher education in Europe during the…
Date issued:
mai 2000
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Countries that are classified as having floating exchange rate systems (or very wide bands) show strikingly different patterns of behavior. They hold very different levels of international reserves…
Date issued:
mai 2000
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This paper tests whether Rodrik's (1999) results that institutions for conflict management are associated with the ability to react to economic shocks are robust to different ways of defining…
Date issued:
mai 2000
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There are few Latin American countries that produced such a remarkable turnaround in policies and outcomes as Argentina did in the 1990s. The large number of reforms yielded surprisingly strong…
Date issued:
mai 2000
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This study examines the impact of unions on wages and employment using data from Uruguay in a period when unions were banned (1973-1984), then legalized with tripartite bargaining (1984-1991)…
Date issued:
mai 2000
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Utilizing differences-in-differences estimates, this paper reviews the impact of reduced firing costs on the dynamism of the Colombian labor market. The effects include raising exit rates into and…
Date issued:
mai 2000
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This paper analyzes the effects of several aspects of labor legislation that were modified through successive waves of reform since 1991. Firing costs diminished sharply through the progressive…
Date issued:
avr 2000
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:
avr 2000
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:
avr 2000
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Esta investigación tiene la intención de identificar las relaciones entre geografía y desarrollo en Bolivia. Dos grandes líneas de pensamiento se encuentran subyacentes en todo el estudio. Por una…
Date issued:
avr 2000
One of the first questions that has to be answered in the survey design process is "How many subjects should be interviewed?" The answer can have significant implications for the cost of…
Date issued:
avr 2000
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Este trabajo analiza el papel de las características geográficas en la explicación del patrón de desarrollo económico regional en México. Los resultados obtenidos demuestran que algunas variables…
Date issued:
avr 2000
This paper discusses the need for a Bank subnational development strategy. The subnational development strategy provides the Bank with a comprehensive framework to support borrowing member countries…
Date issued:
avr 2000
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In this paper, we use a panel approach to study population growth in major cities around the world. We find that major cities grow faster in relatively backward economies and in more volatile, faster…
Date issued:
avr 2000
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This paper takes seriously the recent claim made by Ethier [1998] that the "New Regionalism" reflects the success of the multilateral trading system, not its failure. In fact, the New…
Date issued:
avr 2000
This article examines the Enterprise Development Center (EDC) Rafaela-Esperanza's operating efficiency, financial self-sufficiency, coverage, and effectiveness. In general, EDCs must balance…
Date issued:
avr 2000
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This paper aims to shed light on changes in the saving behavior of microentrepreneurs in response to improved access to credit. This paper argues that it is necessary to extend the analysis to the…
Date issued:
avr 2000
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One of the major economic challenges facing the Caribbean is the generation of employment opportunities to reduce the high levels of unemployment experienced primarily among the young and female…
Date issued:
Mar 2000
The Annual Report contains a review of the Bank's operations in 1999.
Date issued:
Mar 2000
Este Informe anual contiene un examen de las operaciones del Banco en 1999.
Date issued:
Mar 2000
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This paper was prepared for the Seminar The New Wave of Capital Inflows: Sea Change or Tide? Annual Meetings of the Board of Governors, Inter-American Development Bank and Inter-American Investment…
Date issued:
Mar 2000
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It has been common to attribute financial crises to short-term capital inflows, while foreign direct investment (FDI) is seen as a safer form of finance. The relationship between crises and the…
Date issued:
Mar 2000
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This paper studies the proposition that capital inflows tend to take the form of FDI -i.e., the share of FDI in total liabilities tends to be higher- in countries that are safer, more promising and…