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Jan 2010
En 1993, un desastre natural causó un enorme deslizamiento de tierra y grandes inundaciones que devastaron la región del pueblo de Paute en el sur de Ecuador, causando pérdida de vidas humanas y…
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Jan 2010
In rural Mexico, small farmers tend to grow staple crops like beans and corn, and sell them only in their immediate communities. With little accessto national supply chains or the working capital…
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Jan 2010
En las zonas rurales de México, los pequeños agricultores tienden a cultivar productos básicos, como frijoles y maíz, y a venderlos solamente en sus comunidades inmediatas. Dado el difícil acceso a…
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Jan 2010
The advent of the knowledge society has highlighted the growing importance of innovation and intellectual assets as sources of competitiveness and long-term economic growth. This book examines human…
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Jan 2010
El advenimiento de la sociedad del conocimiento ha puesto de relieve la creciente importancia de la innovación y de los recursos intelectuales como fuentes de competitividad y de crecimiento…
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Jan 2010
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La Gestión para Resultados (GpR) es una estrategia de gestión pública que conlleva tomar decisiones sobre la base de información confiable acerca de los efectos que la acción gubernamental tiene en…
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Jan 2010
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Results-based management (RBM) is a public management strategy that involves decision making based on reliable information regarding the effects of governmental actions on society. It has been…
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Jan 2010
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Over the past 30 years, democratic freedoms and competitive electoral processes have taken hold as never before in Latin America. How Democracy Works takes a detailed look, from an institutional…
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Jan 2010
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This volume offers substantive clarification of the proper roles for public agricultural research and development (R&D) throughout Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and introduces an…
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Jan 2010
The growth of economic migrants seeking better lives for themselves and their families has increased four times faster than the worlds¿ population. The information contained in this study presents…
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Jan 2010
The Appleseed Foundation helps promote Center work, identifies and secures funding for projects, serves as a clearinghouse, and provides training and technical assistance to link Centers and allow…
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Jan 2010
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Entrepreneurship contributes to a vibrant private sector and can stimulate broader economic growth. Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have experienced an important growth of…
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Jan 2010
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Despite progress in communication technologies, lack of information still severely handicaps companies seeking to operate in international markets. Furthermore, the investments that these companies…
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Jan 2010
The volume Assessing the Effectiveness of Agricultural Interventions is the Special Topic for the Development Effectiveness Overview 2008-2009. The Special Topic provides an in-depth analysis of what…
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Jan 2010
Development Effectiveness Overview 2008-2009 is a tool by which the IDB accounts for the effectiveness of its work. It reports on the progress made in the Development Effectiveness agenda of the Bank.
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Jan 2010
This book presents a set of studies on contemporary discrimination in Latin America that takes advantage of these new tools by focusing on social interactions that range from cooperation, group…
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Jan 2010
A growing number of cities around the world have established systems for monitoring the quality of urban life. Many of those systems combine objective information with subjective opinions and cover a…
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Jan 2010
Early childhood development outcomes play an important role throughout a person's life, affecting one's income-earning capacity and productivity, longevity, health, and cognitive ability.…
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Jan 2010
This book has three main objectives: (i) discusses the main implications for the functioning of mandatory defined contribution pensions of consumers' inability to make rational choices; (ii)…
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Dec 2009
El período que cubre el Informe MERCOSUR N° 14 (julio de 2008 - junio de 2009) estuvo marcado por la crisis internacional. La fase inflacionaria de dicha crisis -que se desarrolló entre agosto de…
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Dec 2009
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Natural disasters are by no means new, yet the evolving understanding of their relevance to economic development and growth is still in its infancy. This paper summarizes the state of the economic…
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Dec 2009
The goal of this market research was to determine the feasibility of promoting the use of remittances as a means to purchase clean energy. The project was designed to test the attractiveness to…
Date issued:
Dec 2009
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This paper examines the impact of trade policy on production specialization patterns in ten Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay and…
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Dec 2009
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According to the economic theory and recent empirical evidence, improved market access through trade arrangements is likely to favor export diversification. In this paper, we assess whether this has…