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Date issued: Sep 2005
Author(s): Bastón, Carlos

Esta presentación trata sobre la prevención de la violencia y el delito en Uruguay. La presentación se elaboró para el Foro Internacional Interamericano sobre Seguridad y Convivencia que tuvo lugar…

Date issued: Sep 2005
Author(s): Frühling, Hugo

Esta presentación trata sobre la prevención de la violencia y los factores que influyen en los intentos de reforma policial. Se exponen los factores claves que precipitan las reformas y los tipos de…

Date issued: Sep 2005
Author(s): Ardila Amaya, Edgar

Esta presentación trata sobre los programas de justicia comunitaria y alternativa. Los temas que se abordan son las características de la justicia comunitaria y de la justicia alternativa, el…

Date issued: Sep 2005
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

The exhibit unites a number of artistic expressions of the Guaraní Indians of Paraguay, from the colonial period to the present. Include 65 pieces including statuary, both sacred and secular,…

Date issued: Sep 2005
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

Exhibición que reúne el arte de los guaraníes del Paraguay, presenta diferentes expresiones artísticas realizadas por los indios guaraníes, desde el período colonial hasta el presente. Los 65 objetos…

Date issued: Sep 2005
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

This document (PS-125) presents the guidelines that will be used by the Private Sector Department (PRI) to prepare its Expanded Project Supervision Report (XPSR). The XPSR will help IDB to comply…

Date issued: Sep 2005
Author(s): Vives, Antonio

This technical paper determines the extent to which small and medium enterprises (SMEs) behave responsibly, and propose measures to enhance and promote corporate social responsibility in SMEs.…

Date issued: Sep 2005
Author(s): Dini, Marco;Guaipatín, Carlos;Rivas, Gonzalo

This paper reviews, analyzes, and documents the current IDB experience in "productive integration" logic, in order to generate a pool of useful knowledge that will contribute to improving…

Date issued: Sep 2005
Author(s): Fernández-Arias, Eduardo

Financial dollarization is a key factor behind systemic financial fragility in Latin America. The experience shows that dedollarization can be achieved but can just as easily be missed, and worse:…

Date issued: Sep 2005
Author(s): Moraes, Juan Andrés;Chasquetti, Daniel;Bergara, Mario

This paper explores the extent to which Uruguayan institutions (as interbranch relations, electoral rules, budgetary rules, etc.) and political actors (parties, factions, interest groups and…

Date issued: Sep 2005 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Beltrán, Arlette;Castro, Juan Francisco;Vásquez, Enrique;Yamada, Gustavo

Este documento fue comisionado por la Red de Reducción de la Pobreza y Protección Social del Diálogo Regional de Política para la 8a Reunión Hemisférica celebrada los días 24 y 25 de abril de 2005.…

Date issued: Sep 2005
Author(s): Alston, Lee J.;Melo, Marcus André;Mueller, Bernardo;Pereira, Carlos

In this project, the authors analyze the budgetary process to determine who decides on public expenditures in Brazil. The focus is not so much on the actual fiscal outcomes that emerge from the…

Date issued: Sep 2005
Author(s): Abuelafia, Emmanuel;Berensztein, Sergio;Braun, Miguel;Di Gresia, Luciano

The budget process is increasingly considered key for reform efforts to improve fiscal outcomes. The authors embark on a political economy analysis of the budget process in Argentina, in the spirit…

Date issued: Sep 2005 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Lehoucq, Fabrice;Negretto, Gabriel;Aparicio, Francisco Javier;Nacif, Benito;Benton, Allyson Lucinda

This paper uses a transaction-costs framework to link the policymaking process (PMP) and the outer features of public policies in Mexico. It shows how a highly secretive PMP, centralized around the…

Date issued: Sep 2005 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Armas, Adrián;Grippa, Francisco

This discusses the unique experience of Peru's Central Bank with inflation targeting in an economy characterized by a high degree of financial dollarization. The paper outlines how Peru has…

Date issued: Sep 2005 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Vargas H., Hernando

This paper examines Colombia's experience with an inflation-targeting monetary policy following the abandonment of exchange rate bands in 1999, and two episodes in 2003 and 2004 that deviated…

Date issued: Sep 2005
Author(s): Flôres Jr., Renato G.

The impact of the May 2004 enlargement is not, in overall terms, something to worry MERCOSUR decision makers and economic agents. However, this globally non-menacing picture raises, at a closer look…

Date issued: Sep 2005
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

This is a report (RE-309) of the Office of Evaluation and Oversight's main findings regarding the office's two years process of review of Bank Country Strategies. The report is organized in…

Date issued: Sep 2005
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

En este informe (RE-309) se presentan las principales constataciones de OVE respecto del proceso de examen de las estrategias de país del Banco, realizado por la Oficina durante un lapso de dos años…

Date issued: Sep 2005
Author(s): Gutiérrez M., Maria Isabel

Una presentación de los resultados preliminarios de una evaluación que tiene el objetivo de establecer el impacto temprano y la relación costo-beneficio de la intervención en términos de su…

Date issued: Sep 2005
Author(s): Beato, Paulina;Vives, Antonio

El objetivo de este artículo es caracterizar las diferentes modalidades de alianzas público-privadas (PPP) para el suministro de servicios de infraestructura y analizar sus implicaciones sobre los…

Date issued: Sep 2005
Author(s): Cisternas Reyes, María Soledad

Este informe tiene por objeto examinar el estado de situación de la política pública en materia de discapacidad con particular énfasis en el ámbito laboral (segundo producto de la consultoría). La…

Date issued: Sep 2005 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Auerbach, Paula;Genoni, María Eugenia;Pagés, Carmen

This paper analyzes the reasons behind the low rates of contribution to social security programs in developing countries. Using a large set of harmonized household surveys from Latin America we…

Date issued: Aug 2005
Author(s): Hurtado, Osvaldo

Este estudio presenta un diagnóstico institucional de los problemas de gobernabilidad democrática en la región. Se basa para ello en trabajos y publicaciones anteriores como La política importa:…

Date issued: Aug 2005
Author(s): Econometría Consultores;Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

El objetivo de este documento es presentar los resultados del programa Línea de base y medición de impactos tempranos del programa de capacitación para el empleo: 2004-2005 de la Alcaldía de Medellín…