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Jan 1999
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Too Close to Home is a collection of essays by international authorities ranging from psychologists and doctors to economists and communication experts. Several authors analyze the economic and…
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Jan 1999
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El costo del silencio es una colección de ensayos realizados por expertos internacionales provenientes de diversas disciplinas: desde psicólogos hasta doctores, desde economistas hasta comunicadores…
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Jan 1999
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Microfinance and Poverty probes a set of assumptions that have arisen about microfinance and poverty reduction and that have become the conventional wisdom, although they have not been proven. These…
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Jan 1999
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Microfinanzas y pobreza es una obra técnica en la que se analizan pruebas y estudios con el objetivo de determinar qué microempresarios podrían beneficiarse de la ampliación de las microfinanzas, de…
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Jan 1999
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Justice Beyond Our Borders looks at successful judicial systems and practices outside of Latin America that could serve as models for countries of the region. It examines large-scale judicial…
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Jan 1999
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While privatization of water, electricity, transport and communications infrastructure continues to gain momentum in Latin America, its success often depends on whether countries implement the…
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Jan 1999
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Latin America loses about nine trillion cubic meters of water each year, or some 30 percent of the water collected and treated for public consumption. While it is impossible for water systems to…
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Jan 1999
One-page 1999 map outlining remittance flows to Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Jan 1999
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Financial turmoil is becoming a fact of life in Latin America. The 1990s have been characterized by enormous volatility in the magnitude and cost of capital flows. The correlation of capital swings…
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Jan 1999
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In this paper, social mobility is measured by looking at the extent to which family background determines socioeconomic success. An index of social mobility for developing countries is proposed based…
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Jan 1999
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This paper presents a rational political budget cycle model for an open economy, in which devaluations are delayed in the pre-election period so as to increase the electoral chances of the party in…
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Dec 1998
Este ensayo es el primero de una serie de estudios sobre la pobreza y las estrategias de reducción de la pobreza indígena que ofrece un insumo importante al documento formal de la estrategia del BID…
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Dec 1998
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.
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Dec 1998
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…
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Dec 1998
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Following the 1994 financial crisis, the rate of saving of the Mexican economy fell from 21.7 percent to 19.8 percent of GDP. The decline was associated with a reduction in the rate of external…
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Dec 1998
Good practices in targeting, as highlighted here, with an additional effort to go beyond the letter of the law in the identification of project beneficiaries. Effective and efficient targeting…
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Dec 1998
This paper provides an alternative approach to measuring the cost-effectiveness of educational interventions. The authors devised a questionnaire and gave it to ten international experts, mainly…
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Dec 1998
This document presents a coastal and marine resources management strategy for the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). The strategy provides new directions for Bank activities which significantly…
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Dec 1998
This technical study contains the strategy of the Inter-American Development Bank for its involvement in integrated water resources management in Latin America and the Caribbean. The strategy was…
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Dec 1998
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The decade of the 1990s has witnessed a wave of regional integration initiatives in Latin America: more than 14 agreements -free trade areas or customs unions- since 1990 with a handful more in…
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Dec 1998
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En relación con los países desarrollados, las ventajas comparativas de la región centroamericana se encuentran en procesos productivos de uso intensivo de mano de obra barata y recursos naturales.…
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Dec 1998
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This paper (ENV-126) was originally presented at a National Science Foundation Workshop on Alternatives to Traditional Contingent Valuation Methods in Environmental Valuation, held at Vanderbilt…
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Dec 1998
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Early Childhood Interventions (ECI) are ideally designed to achieve a series of mutually reinforcing objectives with the overarching goal of helping to improve equality of opportunity for children in…
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Dec 1998
The first part of this discussion paper attempts, within the inevitable data limitations, to present some picture of patterns of indigenous poverty over time. In addition, the first section examines…
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Dec 1998
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"Incierto era ayer el nœmero de victimas que dejaron las incursiones de un grupo de autodefensas en Mapiripán (Meta). Aunque en el casco urbano fueron hallados tres cuerpos sin cabezas y otros…