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Date issued:
Apr 2001
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Este estudio analiza el papel del Estado en la transformación económica de tres regiones de agricultura irrigada en el Valle del Rio São Francisco en el nordeste de Brasil. El objetivo es entender…
Relaciones intergubernamentales y descentralización en América Latina: Una perspectiva institucional
Date issued:
Apr 2001
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En el presente trabajo se analizan los ejes de descentralización, mecanismos de coordinación y relaciones intergubernamentales en los procesos de descentralización en América Latina. En la primera…
Date issued:
Apr 2001
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En este trabajo se enfoca la evaluación del comercio y del manejo sustentable de los recursos naturales renovables en el recurso bosque. Los dos temas principales emergentes en el comercio…
Date issued:
Apr 2001
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We provide evidence on the link between infrastructure development and the distribution of income for the period 1960-1995. To do this, we use several proxies such as roads, railways,…
Date issued:
Apr 2001
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This paper explores the institutional determinants of economic growth in Latin America by taking advantage of recent empirical research that employs subjective and objective measures to test for a…
Date issued:
Apr 2001
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The aim of this paper is to provide comprehensive empirical evidence on recent theories that link democracy and income inequality for the period 1960-1995. In simple cross-country regressions I find…
Date issued:
Apr 2001
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The successful conclusion of the Uruguay Round and the establishment of the WTO marked an apparently decisive reassertion of the primacy of the multilateral trading system.
Date issued:
Apr 2001
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Promediando la década de los noventa, la región Asia-Pacífico parecía haber alcanzado un grado excepcional de coherencia entre las aproximaciones regional y multilateral a la liberalización comercial…
Date issued:
Apr 2001
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We develop a model in which the elasticity of credit to exogenous shocks depends on creditor rights regulations. We show that an increase in creditor protection reduces the elasticity of credit…
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Apr 2001
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We explore the links between trust and a broad range of financial structure and development measures. Our base sample is a cross section of 48 countries and the analysis covers the period 1980-1994.…
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Apr 2001
This study surveys governance issues in Suriname. It looks at the Constitution, the National Assembly, the executive branch of government (particularly the civil service and budgetary management),…
Date issued:
Apr 2001
This study, which is in Dutch, surveys governance issues in Suriname. It looks at the Constitution, the National Assembly, the executive branch of government (particularly the civil service and…
Date issued:
Mar 2001
Este informe tratará de detectar las posibles distorsiones que los impuestos e incentivos vigentes pueden generar en la evolución del Mercosur, y se pueda sugerir normas de coordinación o…
Date issued:
Mar 2001
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At the time of writing there were widespread concerns about the health of the U.S. economy. There is conclusive evidence that the pace of growth has slowed, which has prompted the Federal Reserve to…
Date issued:
Mar 2001
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This paper reviews empirical evidence on the impact of creditor rights regulations on credit market breadth and the credit cycle. It confirms results that were questioned regarding the impact of…
Date issued:
Mar 2001
Wade Davis (1953-), Canadian ethnobotanist and writer, National Geographic Society Explorer, author of The Serpent and the Rainbow (1986) and One River (1996).
Date issued:
Mar 2001
Wade Davis (1953-), botánico étnico y escritor canadiense, Explorador Residente de la National Geographic Society y autor de The Serpent and the Rainbow [La serpiente y el arco iris] (1986) y One…
Date issued:
Mar 2001
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En este documento se caracteriza la pobreza rural en México y Centro América tanto a nivel agregado como familiar; se identifican determinantes de la pobreza, enfatizando el desarrollo regional y la…
Date issued:
Mar 2001
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El objetivo del Proyecto de Investigación es el de analizar y explicar las formas contractuales quese observan en seis proyectos de Infraestructura Pública en los cuales hay participación privada…
Date issued:
Mar 2001
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Este estudio tiene como objetivo analizar los determinantes de los esquemas contractuales adoptados para la participación privada en ocho proyectos de concesión de infraestructura: dos del sector de…
Date issued:
Mar 2001
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Dada la multiplicidad de factores que pueden afectar el desempeño empresarial, tanto para los empresarios mismos como para las autoridades económicas de los países es preciso establecer la severidad…
Date issued:
Mar 2001
El Centro Cultural del BID culminó el año 2000 con un repertorio equilibrado de actividades. En el transcurso del año, el Centro Cultural presentó 32 actividades, entre ellas, 5 exposiciones de arte…
Date issued:
Mar 2001
This Annual Report details the activities of the Japanese Special Fund and the Japanese Trust Fund for Consultancy Services for 2000. In 1988 the Government of Japan (GoJ) created the Japan Special…
Date issued:
Mar 2001
This paper analyzes MIF efforts to improve inadequate training institutions and emphasize the basic importance of updating management and worker skills in SMEs in Latin America. The paper is…
Date issued:
Feb 2001
The IDB Cultural Center presented this exhibition as a tribute to Chile on the occasion of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of the IDB held in Santiago, Chile, in March 2001. The…