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Date issued:
Jun 2000
Presentación que contiene información acerca del microcrédito. Asimismo, da a conocer aspectos importantes para desarrollar un marco legal y de supervisión del microcrédito.
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Jun 2000
Presentación que brinda información sobre los desafíos del gobierno, de los órganos de supervisión y para las entidades financieras, en materia de microfinanzas.
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Jun 2000
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Abundant empirical evidence links well-functioning institutions and good governance to better economic and social outcomes. It is thus an important challenge to determine which conjunction of factors…
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Jun 2000
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The wave of structural reforms in Latin America and elsewhere has stimulated the development of a wide body of theoretical literature on the political economy of reform, i.e., the study of the…
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Jun 2000
"Capital social y cultura: claves olvidadas del desarrollo" refleja la preocupación de su autor por examinar y redefinir al desarrollo desde una perspectiva que se despega del pensamiento…
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Jun 2000
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Este artículo examina algunas de las hipótesis sobre las estrategias de deuda que a priori parece haber seguido el gobierno mexicano, partiendo de un examen de la evolución y composición de la misma…
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Jun 2000
El objetivo principal de este informe es presentar un panorama general de los distintos mecanismos de financiamiento probados y experimentales que pueden emplearse para alentar la conservación y el…
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Jun 2000
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The adoption of emergency employment and short-term training programs to provide income support to the population affected by the episodes of economic volatility since 1995 reveals the failure of the…
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Jun 2000
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Recent improvements in the Internet are revolutionizing the way companies market their services. This book examines the effectiveness of e-mail promotion as a complement to marketing strategies used…
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May 2000
María Susana Azzi (1952-), Argentine cultural anthropologist, Board Member of the Astor Piazzolla Foundation and the National Academy of Tango in Buenos Aires.
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May 2000
María Susana Azzi (1952-), antropóloga cultural argentina, miembro del directorio de la Fundación Astor Piazzolla y de la Academia Nacional del Tango en Buenos Aires.
Date issued:
May 2000
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Los seis casos de inversión privada en infraestructura muestran marcadas diferencias tanto en términos del desempeño empresarial como en relación al nivel de adecuación de las modalidades…
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May 2000
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There are few Latin American countries that produced such a remarkable turnaround in policies and outcomes as Argentina did in the 1990s. The large number of reforms yielded surprisingly strong…
Date issued:
May 2000
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This study examines the impact of unions on wages and employment using data from Uruguay in a period when unions were banned (1973-1984), then legalized with tripartite bargaining (1984-1991)…
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May 2000
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Utilizing differences-in-differences estimates, this paper reviews the impact of reduced firing costs on the dynamism of the Colombian labor market. The effects include raising exit rates into and…
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May 2000
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This paper analyzes the effects of several aspects of labor legislation that were modified through successive waves of reform since 1991. Firing costs diminished sharply through the progressive…
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May 2000
El presente estudio analiza los cambios demográficos, socio-económicos y culturales actuales e históricos de las comunidades indígenas tradicionales y de su medio ambiente que han resultado en una…
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May 2000
A pesar del esfuerzo de los organismos multilaterales para erradicar la pobreza en la población indígena, la brecha entre los indígenas y el resto de la población en lugar de disminuir ha aumentado,…
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May 2000
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This paper tests whether Rodrik's (1999) results that institutions for conflict management are associated with the ability to react to economic shocks are robust to different ways of defining…
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May 2000
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The present study describes the changes in the traditional European model of higher education, its successes as well as failures. The remarkable expansion of higher education in Europe during the…
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May 2000
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Countries that are classified as having floating exchange rate systems (or very wide bands) show strikingly different patterns of behavior. They hold very different levels of international reserves…
Date issued:
Apr 2000
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:
Apr 2000
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:
Apr 2000
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This paper takes seriously the recent claim made by Ethier [1998] that the "New Regionalism" reflects the success of the multilateral trading system, not its failure. In fact, the New…
Date issued:
Apr 2000
One of the first questions that has to be answered in the survey design process is "How many subjects should be interviewed?" The answer can have significant implications for the cost of…