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Date issued: Feb 2007
Author(s): Alonso, Pablo;De la Cruz, Rafael;Payne, J. Mark;Straface, Fernando;Alonso, Jose Antonio;Linder, Anja

Hoy existe un creciente consenso acerca de la importancia del "buen gobierno" para el crecimiento económico sustentable y la lucha contra la pobreza y la exclusión. La complejidad de la…

Date issued: Feb 2007
Author(s): Llisterri, Juan J.

Este documento introduce el esquema de funcionamiento de los sistemas de garantía presentes en América Latina y se resumen las lecciones que de ellos se desprenden. Además, se definen diferentes…

Date issued: Feb 2007
Author(s): Tamargo, María del Carmen

El presente informe describe y analiza los principales emergentes del trabajo de investigación realizado en el marco de la consultoría referida a El Subregistro de personas en Panamá. El mismo ha…

Date issued: Feb 2007
Author(s): Ordóñez Bustamante, Dwight;Bracamonte Bardález, Patricia

La presente investigación tiene por objetivo examinar las interacciones entre la falta de registro y las implicaciones sobre el desarrollo social y económico en Guatemala. En este marco, se…

Date issued: Feb 2007 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Hanson, Gordon H.

This paper, examines emigration, remittances, and labor-force participation in Mexico during the 1990s. It uses two samples of households for the analysis: (a) rural households in Mexico in 2000,…

Date issued: Feb 2007
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

In the context of a growing world economy, a steady demand for raw materials and a wealth of liquidity, the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR: Mercado Común del Sur) continues to expand. The…

Date issued: Feb 2007 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Woodruff, Christopher

Using data from Mexican surveys of Microenterprises conducted between 1992 and 1998, we examine the association between migration to the US and investment in microenterprises, the use of paid and…

Date issued: Feb 2007 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina;Sainz, Tania;Pozo, Susan

Workers's remittances to Mexico represent one of Mexico's most important sources of foreign income, only second to petroleum sales. This paper attempts to measure the elasticity or…

Date issued: Feb 2007
Author(s): Ducci, Jorge

Hacia fines de los años noventa un número significativo de países de América Latina contaba con la presencia de importantes operadores internacionales en el sector de servicios de agua potable y…

Date issued: Jan 2007
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

The purpose of the Multilateral Development Bank (MDB) Common Performance Assessment System (COMPAS) is to provide a focus where the five members of the MDB Working Group on Managing for Development…