Start your advanced search in the IDB Publications Catalog.
Date issued:
Feb 1997
O BID acompanha o desenvolvimento econômico e social da América Latina e do Caribe, assim como as atividades do Banco. É publicado dez vezes por ano, em português, inglês, francês e espanhol.
Date issued:
Feb 1997
Generative AI enabled
Generative AI enabled
The sharp differences between financial markets as they exist in Latin America and how we might expect them to look under full integration suggest that the financial constraints on Latin American…
Date issued:
Feb 1997
Generative AI enabled
Generative AI enabled
This paper analyzes the consequences of alternative financial structures for financial efficiency and stability. The focus is on the organizational structure of banks. Alternative bank structures…
Date issued:
Feb 1997
La pérdida de calidad de los servicios de infraestructura asociada con la participación del sector público llevaron en la década de los 70 al comienzo de una ola de desregulación y privatización.…
Date issued:
Feb 1997
This paper analyzes the reasons countries have for choosing to incorporate the private sector into the provision of infrastructure and will briefly review the modalities in which private sector…
Date issued:
Jan 1997
Bank involvement with derivative activities--both for risk management and as a line of business--is considerable, and supervisory authorities are paying heightened attention to securities markets.…
Date issued:
Jan 1997
Generative AI enabled
Generative AI enabled
In this paper we will not intend to derive improved poverty measures for the Americas. Our pretensions are much more modest. The purposes of the paper are to provide an inventory of available poverty…
Date issued:
Jan 1997
Generative AI enabled
Generative AI enabled
Have the economies of Latin America become less volatile as a result of the economic stabilization and structural reforms implemented during the past decade? The answer is a qualified yes. The…
Date issued:
Jan 1997
Generative AI enabled
Generative AI enabled
Banks' market or 'trading' risks have increased noticeably over the past years, largely as a result of the growth of liquid assets on banks' balance sheets and the increase in…
Date issued:
Jan 1997
Generative AI enabled
Generative AI enabled
The Venezuelan experience in the 1980s is a particularly fertile ground for the analysis of negative shocks. Two large shocks took place under very different control regimes, thus highlighting the…