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Date issued: Juil 2012 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Anchorena, José;Ronconi, Lucas

This paper uses datasets from six surveys to describe entrepreneurship in Argentina. While the quantity of entrepreneurship in Argentina is high, its quality is low, given the high proportion of…

Date issued: Juil 2012 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Kantis, Hugo;Federico, Juan;Trajtenberg, Luis A.

Based on a cross-country comparison of dynamic new firms, this paper attempts to characterize Latin American middle-class entrepreneurs and their firms. In general, Latin American middle-class…

Date issued: Juil 2012
Author(s): Institute for the Integration of Latin America and the Caribbean

The INTAL Monthly Newsletter reports on developments in integration and trade across Latin American and the Caribbean. It also serves as a forum for discussing the IDB¿s activities related to these…

Date issued: Juil 2012
Author(s): Instituto para la Integración de América Latina y el Caribe

La carta mensual del INTAL informa sobre desarrollos en las áreas de integración y comercio en las regiones de América Latina y el Caribe. También es el medio para difundir las actividades realizadas…

Date issued: Juil 2012
Author(s): Instituto para a Integração da América Latina e do Caribe

A carta mensal do INTAL informa sobre os desenvolvimentos nas áreas de integração e comércio nas regiões da América Latina e do Caribe. É também um meio de difusão das atividades do BID sobre estes…

Date issued: Juil 2012
Author(s): Ramos Martínez, Alejandro;Gayá, Romina;Campos, Rosario;Michalczewsky, Kathia

El objetivo de este trabajo es reseñar distintos marcos teóricos para el análisis de las zonas de procesamiento de exportaciones (ZPE). Como no existe una teoría específica de esta herramienta de…

Date issued: Juil 2012
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

The IDB has made important investments in results measurement and reporting mechanism over the past few years. Although significant improvements have taken place, IDB's main mechanism for…

Date issued: Juil 2012
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

El BID ha realizado una importante inversión en su arquitectura de medición de resultados y presentación de informes en los últimos años. A pesar de las obvias mejoras, el principal mecanismo del BID…

Date issued: Juil 2012
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank;Huppi, Monika;Elliott, Victoria;Costas-Perez, Elena;Truong, Karl

This approach paper describes the scope of the evaluation of the Independent Consultation and Investigation Mechanism (ICIM) by the IDB's Office of Evaluation and Oversight. The forthcoming…

Date issued: Juil 2012
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo;Huppi, Monika;Elliott, Victoria;Costas-Perez, Elena;Truong, Karl

Este documento de enfoque describe la propuesta de evaluación del Mecanismo Independiente de Consulta e Investigación (MICI) por parte de la Oficina de Evaluación y Supervisión del BID. La evaluación…

Date issued: Juil 2012
Author(s): Pires, Jose Claudio Linhares;Lodato, Simon;Gray, Cheryl

This report presents OVE's independent validation of the Expanded Project Supervision Reports fourth exercise (XPSRs), prepared by the Structured and Corporate Finance Department (SCF). The…

Date issued: Juil 2012
Author(s): Pires, Jose Claudio Linhares;Lodato, Simon;Gray, Cheryl

En este informe se presenta la validación independiente llevada a cabo por OVE acerca del cuarto proceso de los informes ampliados de supervisión de proyectos, preparados por el Departamento de…

Date issued: Juil 2012 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Kantis, Hugo;Federico, Juan;Trajtenberg, Luis A.

Using household surveys from Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, and El Salvador, this paper assesses the contribution of entrepreneurship to socioeconomic mobility and to understand the main variables…

Date issued: Juil 2012 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Ordeñana, Xavier;Arteaga, Elizabeth

This paper surveys Ecuadorian entrepreneurs to ascertain the differences between middle-class and upper-class entrepreneurs and identify the variables associated with the "success" of a…

Date issued: Juil 2012
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

El Informe de Sostenibilidad contiene información sobre las contribuciones del BID a la sostenibilidad durante el año 2011. También proporciona información sobre las tendencias fundamentales del…

Date issued: Juil 2012
Author(s): García Zaballos, Antonio

El Gobierno de Nicaragua ha identificado las Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación (TIC) como un pilar clave de su estrategia para mejorar la gestión pública y aumentar la competitividad; sin…

Date issued: Juil 2012
Author(s): Puerta, Juan Manuel;Atuesta, Laura;Costas-Perez, Elena;Corrales, Maria Elena;Sekkel, Julia

This evaluation assesses IDB's role in contributing to the coordinated solution of transnational challenges during the period 2000-2011. The evaluation found that the relevance and effectiveness…

Date issued: Juil 2012
Author(s): Puerta, Juan Manuel;Atuesta, Laura;Costas-Perez, Elena;Corrales, Maria Elena;Sekkel, Julia

El objetivo de la evaluación es valorar la función del BID con respecto a su contribución a la búsqueda de soluciones coordinadas ante desafíos transnacionales durante el período 2000-2011. La…

Date issued: Juil 2012 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Gandelman, Néstor;Robano, Virginia

This paper estimates the relationship between parents educational attainment and income and children's schooling in Uruguay between 1982 and 2010. This relationship is interpreted as a measure…

Date issued: Juil 2012
Author(s): Duarte, Jesús;Bos, María Soledad

Los aprendizajes escolares de los alumnos colombianos son altamente desiguales. Alumnos de mayor nivel socioeconómico y que asisten a escuelas urbanas y privadas obtienen mejores resultados en las…

Date issued: Juil 2012
Author(s): Smits, Stef;Tamayo, Shirley Paola;Ibarra, Vanessa;Rojas, Johnny;Benavidez, Alberto;Bey, Valérie

Existe un amplio reconocimiento en la literatura sobre la gran importancia que tiene el apoyo post-construcción a prestadores rurales (comunitarios) para incrementar la sostenibilidad de los…

Date issued: Juil 2012
Author(s): Marcel, Mario;Cabezas, Mabel;Piedrabuena, Bernardita

El presente resumen de políticas realiza una revisión sistemática de la metodología de estimación del Balance Estructural (BE) en Chile. Esta revisión no sólo recapitula y evalúa la justificación de…

Date issued: Juil 2012 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Bukstein, Daniel;Gandelman, Néstor

This paper follows an income-based, time-dependence approach to measure social mobility in Uruguay between 1982 and 2010. The paper finds that social mobility in Uruguay is considerable and reports…

Date issued: Juil 2012 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Vélez-Grajales, Viviana;Vélez-Grajales, Roberto

This paper uses the Mexican Social Mobility Survey 2006 to analyze intergenerational social mobility as it relates to entrepreneurial activity. First, the paper analyzes whether entrepreneurs…

Date issued: Juil 2012
Author(s): Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés

Este informe representa un primer acercamiento al problema en América Latina, donde no existen estudios comparativos sobre la viabilidad y el impacto económico de los PCT. El objetivo es analizar el…

Date issued: Juil 2012 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Ordeñana, Xavier;Villa, Ramón

Does entrepreneurship contribute to improving social mobility in Ecuador? This paper constructs a pseudo-panel to analyze the dynamic effect of entrepreneurship on Ecuadorian household incomes during…

Date issued: Juil 2012 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Ulloa, Alfie;Wagner, Rodrigo

Free Trade Agreements (FTA) attract significant interest, but after these treaties are signed not all exporters use them. We provide a model of heterogeneous utilization, also developing a novel…

Date issued: Juil 2012 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Schady, Norbert

Iron deficiency anemia is the most prevalent nutritional deficiency in the world, affecting more than 2 billion people in developing countries. We show that a modest cash transfer substantially…

Date issued: Juil 2012
Author(s): Armendáriz, Edna;De León, Wendy;López de Mesa, Paloma

Este documento aplica el marco analítico de diagnóstico de crecimiento para identificar las restricciones más activas que impiden un crecimiento económicomás acelerado en Guatemala y su convergencia…

Date issued: Juil 2012
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

The 2012 second quarter edition of the Quarterly Business Review (QBR) provides management with a status of the Bank's performance. The QBR reports on outputs, lending program priorities and…

Date issued: Juil 2012
Author(s): Alfonso, Mariana;Benavides, Martín

This note summarizes, as told from their personal experiences, the transition process of young people, mostly non-teachers, recruited by Enseña Perú to serve as teachers for a period of two years in…

Date issued: Juil 2012
Author(s): Alfonso, Mariana;Benavides, Martín

Esta nota resume el proceso de inserción a la docencia, contado a partir de sus propias experiencias, de jóvenes mayoritariamente no docentes reclutados por Enseña Perú para desempeñarse como…

Date issued: Juil 2012
Author(s): Bassi, Marina;Covacevich, Catalina

Elige Educar is a Chilean public-private initiative that seeks to improve the appreciation of teachers and encourage high-performing students to study education by means of media campaigns, talks to…

Date issued: Juil 2012
Author(s): Bassi, Marina;Covacevich, Catalina

Elige Educar es una iniciativa público-privada chilena que busca mejorar la valoración de los docentes e incentivar que estudiantes destacados estudien pedagogía, a partir de campanas mediáticas,…

Date issued: juin 2012 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Huneeus, Cristóbal;Leiva, Silvia;Micco, Alejandro

Unemployment is a pressing problem in many countries in Latin America. Financial crises and increased globalization increase job turnover and therefore the risk of unemployment. To protect workers…

Date issued: juin 2012
Author(s): Gazmuri Mujica, Jaime

En este trabajo se analizan las condiciones políticas y técnicas que han permitido u obstaculizado el desarrollo de oficinas técnicas de apoyo presupuestario en los parlamentos de seis países de la…

Date issued: juin 2012
Author(s): Filc, Gabriel;Scartascini, Carlos

Dada la evidencia existente de que pueden existir beneficios tangibles en términos de sostenibilidad, eficiencia y efectividad del gasto público de una utilización más plena de los presupuestos por…

Date issued: juin 2012
Author(s): Hurtado López, Carlos

This policy brief reviews the experience of the countries under the Euro currency, focusing on those that have been under significant pressure in recent years- Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain,…

Date issued: juin 2012 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Magalhães, Fernanda

The main goal of this book is to disseminate the useful lessons learned from urban development and favela urbanization operations in Brazil financed by the Inter-American Development Bank and the…

Date issued: juin 2012 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Magalhães, Fernanda

El objetivo principal de este libro es la diseminación de lecciones útiles extraídas de operaciones de desarrollo urbano y de urbanización de favelas financiadas en Brasil por el Banco Interamericano…

Date issued: juin 2012 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Magalhães, Fernanda

O objetivo principal deste livro é a disseminação de lições úteis extraídas de operações de desenvolvimento urbano e de urbanização de favelas financiadas pelo Banco Interamericano de Desenvolvimento…

Date issued: juin 2012
Author(s): Iravantchi, Sheirin;Wenner, Mark D.

The microinsurance market in Latin America is still in its embryonic phase. The purpose of this technical note is to better inform donors, national governments, and insurance companies interested in…

Date issued: juin 2012
Author(s): García Ferro, Luz Ángela;Luna, Elba N.;Rodríguez, Lorena;Van Waesberghe, Micha;Vásquez Jordán, Darinka

A disciplined approach to "Learn from Experience" is critical to the enduring ability of the Inter- American Development Bank (IDB) and its regional partners to make effective knowledge-…

Date issued: juin 2012
Author(s): García Ferro, Luz Ángela;Luna, Elba N.;Rodríguez, Lorena;Van Waesberghe, Micha;Vásquez Jordán, Darinka

This document provides information about the Knowledge Capture Interview, one of the methods used within the Bank's cycle to learn from experience. Specifically, it is a `learning after doing…

Date issued: juin 2012
Author(s): García Ferro, Luz Ángela;Luna, Elba N.;Rodríguez, Lorena;Van Waesberghe, Micha;Vásquez Jordán, Darinka

This document describes the Peer Assist, which is a facilitated workshop, held face-to-face or virtually, in which a diverse group of participants from inside and/or outside the Bank share their…

Date issued: juin 2012
Author(s): García Ferro, Luz Ángela;Luna, Elba N.;Rodríguez, Lorena;Van Waesberghe, Micha;Vásquez Jordán, Darinka

This document describes the After Action Review (AAR), which is one of the methods used within the Bank's cycle to learn from experience. Specifically, it is a `learning after doing'…

Date issued: juin 2012
Author(s): García Ferro, Luz Ángela;Luna, Elba N.;Rodríguez, Lorena;Van Waesberghe, Micha;Vásquez Jordán, Darinka

This document describes the 'Knowledge to Action' methodology, which produces and organizes actionable 'Key Learnings' for re-use by their target audience. Key Learnings captured…

Date issued: juin 2012 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Powell, Andrew;Tavella, Pilar

This paper analyzes capital inflow surges in emerging economies from 1980 to 2005. Estimated probit models are used, which discriminate well between surges associated with banking crises or…

Date issued: juin 2012 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Miller, Sebastián J.;Yu, Bok-Keun

Mobilizing sufficient resources is essential for supporting environmental activities in developing countries, and cofinancing is generally considered an important tool to help developing countries…

Date issued: juin 2012
Author(s): Piza, Caio;Cravo, Tulio;Lodato, Simon;Pires, Jose Claudio Linhares

The Opportunities for the Majority Initiative (OMJ) was originally set up for three years as a time-bound pilot initiative. The OMJ team has worked diligently to test the Base of the Pyramid model…