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Date issued: jan 2003
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

The eighteen months from June 2001 to end December 2002 were a period of unprecedented economic crisis within MERCOSUR, stemming from the sharp external shock that, with different characteristics,…

Date issued: jan 2003
Author(s): Municipalidad de Cuenca;Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

El presente documento realiza una revisión histórica del problema de la seguridad ciudadana en Cuenca, Ecuador. Además, describe los tipos más comunes de violencia, a saber: homicidios, violencia…

Date issued: jan 2003
Author(s): Moncayo Gallegos, Paco

La presentación expone, por medio de datos estadísticos, los principales problemas de violencia y causas de muerte que sufre la ciudad de Quito. A continuación se plantean los factores de riesgos y…

Date issued: jan 2003
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

La presentación expone un diagnóstico de la seguridad ciudadana en Machala. Se presenta la composición demográfica de la ciudadanía, las principales actividades productivas y las características del…

Date issued: jan 2003
Author(s): Jansson, Tor;Rosales, Ramón;Westley, Glenn D.

Esta publicación está dirigida a las autoridades de supervisión bancaria que deseen establecer un marco regulatorio y de supervisión para las microfinanzas o que tengan a su cargo la responsabilidad…

Date issued: jan 2003
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desenvolvimento

Os dezoito meses que vão desde o início do segundo semestre de 2001 até o final de 2002 marcam umperíodo de crise econômica inédita no MERCOSUL, conseqüência de um forte shock externo adverso que,se…

Date issued: jan 2003
Author(s): Cortázar Velarde, Juan Carlos;Lecaros, Carla

El estudio de caso pretende contribuir a una mejor comprensión de los procesos que hacen viables aquellas prácticas de participación ciudadana que requieren una elevada interacción con las…

Date issued: jan 2003 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Castagnino, Ernesto

El presente estudio analiza una serie de reformas para la promoción de la equidad social desde una visión de la economía política, describiendo los diferentes tipos y las etapas en los procesos de…

Date issued: jan 2003
Author(s): Granados, Jaime

Las zonas francas de exportación y otros regímenes especiales estarán siendo objeto de sustanciales reformas regulatorias como resultado de la progresiva inserción de los países en la economía…

Date issued: jan 2003
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

El Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo, el Banco Mundial, la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe y el Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo, ratificaron su apoyo a los…

Date issued: jan 2003 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Millán, Jaime;von der Fehr, Nils-Henrik M.;Ayala, Ulpiano;Walker, Ian;Benavides, Juan;Fundación Solar;Rufín, Carlos;Brown, Ashley

Power sector reforms across Latin America in the 1990s based on privatization, liberalization, and market forces were largely unavoidable. This book argues that while there is no turning back from…

Date issued: jan 2003 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Sojo, Carlos;Behrman, Jere R.;Pérez de Rada, Ernesto;Jiménez, Wilson;Gaviria, Alejandro;Calderón Martínez, Lissette;Alves, Denisard;Teruel, Graciela;Funkhouser, Edward;Pérez Saínz, Juan Pablo;Gray-Molina, George;Székely, Miguel;Lardé de Palomo, Anabella;Rubalcava, Luis;Timmins, Christopher;Parker, Susan W.;Vides de Andrade, Ana Regina

Social exclusion is closely linked with many economic problems in Latin America, as it prevents people from reaching their full productive potential -in turn constraining growth and revenues- and…

Date issued: jan 2003 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Ureta, Manuelita;Filgueira, Carlos;Menezes-Filho, Naercio Aquino;Duryea, Suzanne;Obuchi, Richard;Andersen, Lykke E.;Filgueira, Fernando;Bruni Celli, Josefina;Flórez, Carmen Elisa;Núñez, Jairo;Fuentes, Alvaro;Cox Edwards, Alejandra

This book uses micro-level data for 18 Latin American countries to examine the choices adolescents make in three areas of behavior: their time allocation toward school and work, their sexual behavior…

Date issued: jan 2003 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Attanasio, Orazio P.;Székely, Miguel;Behrman, Jere R.;Duryea, Suzanne

This book breaks away from the exclusively macroeconomic focus of development studies to bring the spotlight to the place where decisions are made: households. Complementing this microeconomic view…

Date issued: jan 2003
Author(s): Bair, Sheila C.

US banks and credit unions are determined to have Latin American immigrants as important and permanent members of their customer base. Community groups, government, and US business interests are…

Date issued: jan 2003 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Aldaz-Carroll, Enrique;Birdsall, Nancy;Castañeda, Tarsicio;Brundtland, Gro Harlem;Sen, Amartya;Urrutia, Miguel;Myers, Robert G.;Morán, Ricardo

Escaping the Poverty Trap proposes early childhood investment policies that could decisively change the prospects for the next generation of the region's poor. Contributors include Nobel…

Date issued: jan 2003
Author(s): Ramírez, Juan Carlos;Ventura-Dias, Vivianne;Bárcena, Alicia;Lahera, Eugenio

In this book, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean draws upon the Latin American and Caribbean region's experience in order to formulate a historical and…

Date issued: jan 2003
Author(s): Castro, Claudio de Moura;Bernasconi, Andrés;Verdisco, Aimee;Levy, Daniel C.;Gomes, Candido;García, Norma M.;Regnier, Karla;Caruso, Luiz Antonio Cruz;Tigre, Paulo Bastos

This IDB book includes presentations from the international policy dialogue seminar entitled "New Options for Higher Education in Latin America: Lessons from the Community College Experience.…

Date issued: jan 2003
Author(s): Castro, Claudio de Moura;Bernasconi, Andrés;Verdisco, Aimee;Levy, Daniel C.;Gomes, Candido;García, Norma M.;Regnier, Karla;Caruso, Luiz Antonio Cruz;Tigre, Paulo Bastos

Los institutos técnicos superiores son instituciones educativas que ofrecen capacitación postsecundaria por medio de programas más cortos que los de las universidades. Este libro analiza las…

Date issued: jan 2003 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Calderón, César;Chong, Alberto E.;Stein, Ernesto H.

Some key criteria in the optimal currency area literature are that countries should join a currency union if they have closer international trade links and more symmetric business cycles. However,…

Date issued: jan 2003
Author(s): Devlin, Robert;Estevadeordal, Antoni;Taylor, Alan M.;Venables, Anthony J.;Adserà, Alícia;Boix, Carles;Laird, Sam;Messerlin, Patrick A.;Torrent, Ramón;Cremona, Marise;Mattli, Walter;Jordana, Jacint;Ramió, Carles;Narula, Rajneesh;Evenett, Simon J.

This book analyzes the role of trade as a central pillar of the structural reform process and a bridge to capturing the dynamic development forces of an increasingly globalized world economy.

Date issued: jan 2003 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Universidad del Pacífico;Universidad de los Andes;Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

Esta investigación se plantea responder tres preguntas básicas. La primera busca identificar los factores más importantes en la atracción de IED y, en particular, explorar qué papel juegan los…

Date issued: jan 2003 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Galindo, Arturo;Micco, Alejandro;Serra, César Manuel

Institutional and legal differences between countries increase entry costs and reduce the ability of banks to expand abroad. We use bilateral foreign banking data for 176 countries to estimate a…

Date issued: jan 2003 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Levy Yeyati, Eduardo;Panizza, Ugo;Stein, Ernesto H.

In this paper, we examine how the business and interest rate cycles in developed countries affect FDI to developing countries. After aggregating flows into three big source areas (the U.S., Europe…

Date issued: jan 2003 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Masci, Pietro;Utsumi, Makoto;Trigo Loubière, Jacques;Okubo, Yoshio;Sato, Takafumi;De Krivoy, Ruth;Fukao, Mitsuhiro;Martínez Peria, María Soledad;Schmukler, Sergio;Chicoma, José;Demaestri, Edgardo C.;Iannariello, María Pia;Barnhill Jr., Theodore M.;Papapanagiotou, Panagiotis;Rietti Souto, Marco;Posen, Adam S.;Zahler, Roberto

This book looks at the key issues and lessons that policymakers must consider in designing an adequate framework for dealing with financial crises. These include structural problems and their causes…