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Date issued: jan 1998 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Wolff, Laurence;Litto, Frederick;Haddad, Wadi D.;Quick, Stephen A.;Romiszowski, Alexander J.;Stevens, Anne;Cutter, W. Bowman;Pelgrum, W.J.;Peled, Zimra;Harasim, Linda M.;Oliveira, João Batista Araujo e;Puryear, Jeffrey M.;Papert, Seymour;Castro, Claudio de Moura;Block, Clifford;Peled, Elad;Falcão, Joaquin;Hepp, Pedro;Daniel, John;Knight, Peter T.;Jobs, Steve

The promise of technology and the need for caution in its application were the topics of the Seminar on Education in the Information Age held in Cartagena, Colombia on July 1997, sponsored by the IDB…

Date issued: jan 1998 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Wolff, Laurence;Litto, Frederick;Haddad, Wadi D.;Quick, Stephen A.;Romiszowski, Alexander J.;Stevens, Anne;Cutter, W. Bowman;Pelgrum, W.J.;Peled, Zimra;Harasim, Linda M.;Oliveira, João Batista Araujo e;Puryear, Jeffrey M.;Papert, Seymour;Castro, Claudio de Moura;Block, Clifford;Peled, Elad;Falcão, Joaquin;Hepp, Pedro;Daniel, John;Knight, Peter T.;Jobs, Steve

En este libro se presentan los temas discutidos durante el Seminario "La educación en la era de la informática", realizado en Cartagena, Colombia en julio de 1997. El evento fue organizado…

Date issued: jan 1998 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Thorp, Rosemary

What did the Latin American economies achieve in the course of a hundred years and how has this affected standards of living? This comprehensive history examines the political and economic forces…

Date issued: jan 1998 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Thorp, Rosemary

Esta historia económica revisa las fuerzas políticas, institucionales y económicas que determinaron el complejo y a veces paradójico proceso de desarrollo de la región durante el siglo XX.

Date issued: jan 1998
Author(s): Krishnamurthy, L.;Nascimento, José Rente;Keipi, Kari;Nowak, David J.;Dwyer, John F.;Childs, Gina;Nilsson, Kjell;Randrup, Thomas B.;Tvedt, Tilde;Miller, Robert W.;Cobo, Wania;Morgan, Nancy Robin;Zulauf, Werner Eugenio;Philippi Jr., Arlindo;Bruna, Gilda Collet;Ceballos Ibarra, Waldo;Uribe Botero, Eduardo;Pedraza Cerón, Leopoldo;González Claverán, Jorge

Con el fin de establecer lineamientos basados en mejores prácticas para el éxito de los proyectos de áreas verdes urbanas, promover la cooperación entre los países miembros del BID e identificar la…

Date issued: jan 1998 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Rojas-Suárez, Liliana;Birdsall, Nancy;Naím, Moisés;Lora, Eduardo;James, Estelle;Iglesias, Enrique V.;Gavin, Michael;Sabot, Richard H.;Lustig, Nora;Londoño, Juan Luis;Cortázar, René;Graham, Carol;Weisbrod, Steven R.;Hausmann, Ricardo;Coles, Jonathan;Carter, Michael R.;Alfaro, Raquel;Briscoe, John;Sheahan, John;Bradburn, Ralph;Stiglitz, Joseph

Latin American experts demonstrate how market-friendly measures in key policy areas can promote greater equity and efficiency. By identifying win-win strategies, the authors challenge the…

Date issued: jan 1998 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Rogozinski, Jacques

In High Price for Change, a distinguished economist discusses the impact of Mexico's privatization on government finances, the balance of payments, and the financial market, as well as on…

Date issued: jan 1998 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

This book focuses in detail on the analysis of foreign direct investment flows to Latin America and the Caribbean from the vantage point and on the basis of statistical sources from the main investor…

Date issued: déc 1997
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: déc 1997
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: déc 1997
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

Forty-two paintings, lithographs and sculptures in wood, bronze and stone, that illustrate the 18th century colonial era, early 20th century and the 1960s and '70s; from the National Gallery of…

Date issued: déc 1997
Author(s): Malarín, Hector R.;Vaughan, William J.

In this best practice paper a mixed integer optimization approach to the selection of sanitary landfill site sizes and locations in a regional context is explained and illustrated using stylized cost…

Date issued: déc 1997
Author(s): Jaramillo, Carlos Felipe;Kelly, Thomas

This paper analyzes the property rights/deforestation linkage in Latin America. The analysis recognizes two separate areas where tenure issues have an effect on land clearing pressures. The first…

Date issued: déc 1997
Author(s): Bucher, Enrique;Castro, Gonzalo;Floris, Vinio

Conservation of freshwater biodiversity has been seriously neglected throughout the world, and entire ecosystems are threatened with extinction. Unfortunately, freshwater sustainability issues do not…

Date issued: déc 1997
Author(s): Engel, Eduardo;Fischer, Ronald;Galetovic, Alexander

This paper discusses privatization among investments in infrastructure. The goal of this paper is to present a new auction mechanism that solves many of the problems that have hindered the use of…

Date issued: déc 1997
Author(s): Beato, Paulina

The objective of this paper is to analyze some issues and challenges related to private toll road developments in Latin American countries and explore new schemes to mitigate some problems that often…

Date issued: déc 1997
Author(s): Trujillo del Valle, José Antonio;Cohen, Remy;Freixas, Javier;Sheehy, Robert

This paper discusses the radical change of the role of the public sector in the financing of infrastructure projects during the nineties. The generalized response to the new environment has taken the…

Date issued: déc 1997
Author(s): Berón, Laura

Los últimos años han sido testigos de un profundo cambio en el paradigma del desarrollo seguido por los países de la región. Esos cambios han respondido, a su vez, a los que se produjeron en el…

Date issued: déc 1997
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

Durante 1997 los países del MERCOSUR experimentaron una nueva aceleración en el ritmo de crecimiento económico y una caída en las tasas de inflación. Este favorable desempeño fue acompañado por una…

Date issued: déc 1997 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Agosin, Manuel R.;Crespi, Gustavo;Letelier, Leonardo S.

Desde mediados de los ochenta, cuando la economía se encontraba sumida en la crisis de la deuda, el ahorro y la inversión en Chile aumentaron dramáticamente. El ahorro lo ha hecho aún más que la…

Date issued: déc 1997 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Steil, Benn

The so-called "European model" of market integration has evolved over many decades. In particular, the original plan to integrate Europe economically via a progressive program of…

Date issued: déc 1997 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Dooley, Michael P.

There is growing discontent with the conventional wisdom concerning economic policy. The unhappy fact seems to be that a stable macroeconomic environment may be necessary but not sufficient to coax…

Date issued: déc 1997 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Haltia, Olli;Keipi, Kari

This paper discusses the topic of deforestation in Latin America and the Caribbean and the use of incentives as support for private forestry investments. The paper develops the idea of using targeted…

Date issued: déc 1997 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Savedoff, William D.

Latin America spends large amounts of resources on social services, yet its life expectancy and education levels are low compared to other regions with similar levels of income. A key reason is the…

Date issued: déc 1997 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Corbo, Vittorio

El propósito principal de este trabajo es el de revisar los factores y la dinámica que toma la internacionalización financiera, como también las acciones que debiera tomar un país para prepararse…