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Date issued: Apr 2004 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): De Paiva Abreu, Marcelo

The paper is concerned with the high protection cum high growth experience in Brazil until the second half of the 1980s and its crisis. The paper is structured in four sections. The first section is…

Date issued: Apr 2004 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): De Paiva Abreu, Marcelo

The paper analyses aspects of trade liberalization and the political economy of protection in Brazil since 1987. Section I considers the internal and external constraints to the continued adoption of…

Date issued: Apr 2004
Author(s): Darling, Arthur H.;Beato, Paulina

The Bank is receiving an increasing number of requests from state and municipal governments to finance publicly owned convention centers. This paper suggests that few of these projects will bring the…

Date issued: Apr 2004 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Marulanda, Beatriz;Montes, Miguel

Este artículo tiene como objetivo central identificar las condiciones bajo las cuales es factible que el aporte estatal a un proyecto vial (en el contexto de asociaciones público privadas) esté…

Date issued: Apr 2004
Author(s): Blyde, Juan S.;Fernández-Arias, Eduardo

This paper examines the growth experiences of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay (Southern Cone countries). The analysis sheds light on the strengths and weaknesses of long-run growth of…

Date issued: Apr 2004
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

Latin America appears to be suffering from reform fatigue--but why? Is the public tired of waiting for reforms' long-promised benefits? Are policymakers scared of bearing the political costs?…

Date issued: Apr 2004
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

América Latina parece estar sufriendo de fatiga de reforma --¿pero porque? ¿Acaso la gente está cansada de esperar los beneficios prometidos por las reformas desde hace tanto tiempo? ¿Temen los…

Date issued: Apr 2004 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Masci, Pietro;Laínez, José Antonio;Dowers, Kenroy;Lorenzo, Vania A.;Sotomayor, Ivan;Casey, William M.;Ortega Carballo, Enrique;Street, Donna L.;Ruiz de Chavez, Salvador;Cocina, Javier;Findlater, Richard;Callao, Susana;Jarne, José Ignacio

International accounting standards constitute a typical instrument of harmonization and eventually integration of the Latin American and Caribbean financial markets. This book focuses primarily on…

Date issued: Apr 2004 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Chong, Alberto E.;Gradstein, Mark

This paper presents theory and evidence on the relationship between inequality and institutional quality. We propose a model in which the two dynamically reinforce each other and set out to test this…

Date issued: Mar 2004
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

Es necesario aunar los esfuerzos de todos los actores - familias transnacionales, compañías remesadoras e instituciones financieras, organismos públicos, sociedad civil y organizaciones…

Date issued: Mar 2004
Author(s): Bendixen, Sergio

Presenta estadísticas básicas acerca de las remesas de Estados Unidos a América Latina, un resumen de las encuestas del BID sobre remesas, durante el 2001 al 2004 y datos demográficos de inmigrantes…

Date issued: Mar 2004
Author(s): Terry, Donald F.


Date issued: Mar 2004
Author(s): Anderson, Lee G.

This presentation was commissioned by the Environment Network of the Regional Policy Dialogue for the III Hemispheric Meeting celebrated on March 9th and 10th, 2004. There are very productive shrimp…

Date issued: Mar 2004
Author(s): Anderson, Lee G.;Parsons, George R.

This presentation was commissioned by the Environment Network of the Regional Policy Dialogue for the III Hemispheric Meeting celebrated on March 9th and 10th, 2004. Introduction: Why do them? Basic…

Date issued: Mar 2004
Author(s): Cifuentes, Luis A.

This presentation was commissioned by the Environment Network of the Regional Policy Dialogue for the III Hemispheric Meeting celebrated on March 9th and 10th, 2004. Latin American cities have high…

Date issued: Mar 2004
Author(s): Cifuentes, Luis A.

This presentation was commissioned by the Environment Network of the Regional Policy Dialogue for the III Hemispheric Meeting celebrated on March 9th and 10th, 2004. Objective: Economic valuation of…

Date issued: Mar 2004
Author(s): Parsons, George R.

This presentation was commissioned by the Environment Network of the Regional Policy Dialogue for the III Hemispheric Meeting celebrated on March 9th and 10th, 2004. Purpose: Value changes in the…

Date issued: Mar 2004
Author(s): Anderson, Lee G.

Este documento fue comisionado por la Red de Medio Ambiente del Diálogo Regional de Política para la III Reunión Hemisférica celebrada los días 9 y 10 de marzo de 2004. Hay reservas muy productivas…

Date issued: Mar 2004
Author(s): Anderson, Lee G.;Parsons, George R.

Esta presentación fue comisionada por la Red de Medio Ambiente del Diálogo Regional de Política para la III Reunión Hemisférica celebrada los días 9 y 10 de marzo de 2004. Introducción: ¿Por qué…

Date issued: Mar 2004
Author(s): Cifuentes, Luis A.

Esta presentación fue comisionada por la Red de Medio Ambiente del Diálogo Regional de Política para la III Reunión Hemisférica celebrada los días 9 y 10 de marzo de 2004. Las ciudades de…

Date issued: Mar 2004
Author(s): Cifuentes, Luis A.

Esta presentación fue comisionada por la Red de Medio Ambiente del Diálogo Regional de Política para la III Reunión Hemisférica celebrada los días 9 y 10 de marzo de 2004. Las ciudades de…

Date issued: Mar 2004
Author(s): Parsons, George R.

Esta presentación fue comisionada por la Red de Medio Ambiente del Diálogo Regional de Política para la III Reunión Hemisférica celebrada los días 9 y 10 de marzo de 2004. Propósito: Cambios de valor…

Date issued: Mar 2004 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Cifuentes, Luis A.;Jorquera, Héctor;Rizzi, Luis;Vergara, Javier

The main objective of this report is to provide relevant information to improve the decision-making process regarding air quality and pollution control.

Date issued: Mar 2004 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Cifuentes, Luis A.;Jorquera, Héctor;Rizzi, Luis;Vergara, Javier

Este documento fue comisionado por la Red de Medio Ambiente del Diálogo Regional de Política para la III Reunión Hemisférica celebrada los días 9 y 10 de marzo de 2004. Durante las últimas décadas se…