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Date issued: Apr 2013
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

El primer artículo de este número de Microempresa examina el costeo basado en actividades para las instituciones microfinancieras. El costeo basado en actividades (ABC, por su sigla en inglés),…

Date issued: Mar 2013
Author(s): Shi, Leiyu;Pinto, Diana M.;Guanais, Frederico C.

Renewed interest in the Primary Health Care-PHC agenda is a common element of the majority of recent health system reforms throughout Latin America and the Caribbean-LAC. Strengthening of PHC has…

Date issued: Mar 2013 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Auguste, Sebastián;Bebczuk, Ricardo N.;Sánchez, Gabriel

The goal of this paper is to study the link between bank credit (and internal funding) and average firm size in Argentina. Besides the fact that economic growth tends to go hand in hand with larger…

Date issued: Mar 2013
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

Este Informe sobre sostenibilidad abarca el progreso y desempeño del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo en materia de sostenibilidad durante el ejercicio económico de 2012.

Date issued: Mar 2013
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

Esta publicación es parte de una tradición que nació en 2005, producto del esfuerzo conjunto de varios gobiernos y organizaciones multilaterales que vieron la necesidad de impulsar reformas para que…

Date issued: Mar 2013
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

In 2011 OVE began using the DEM and the self-evaluation system as a way to assess the evaluability of the Bank's portfolio by validating the DEMs of a sample of projects. The first exercise was…

Date issued: Mar 2013
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

En 2011, OVE comenzó a utilizar la Matriz de Efectividad en el Desarrollo y el sistema de autoevaluación como una forma de determinar la evaluabilidad de la cartera del Banco mediante la validación…

Date issued: Mar 2013
Author(s): Cuenin, Fernando;Rodriguez Molina, Raúl

El presente documento pretende recopilar el contenido del Seminario de Reflexión Estratégica "Los Países Andinos y la Integración Física de América del Sur", celebrado el 29 y 30 de octubre…

Date issued: Mar 2013
Author(s): Afonso, António;Romero, Alma;Monsalve, Emma

We compute Public Sector Performance (PSP) and Public Sector Efficiency (PSE) indicators and Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) efficiency scores for a sample of twenty-three Latin American and…

Date issued: Mar 2013 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Vilalta Perdomo, Carlos J.

What determines the feeling of insecurity with respect to crime and what can be done about it? This study proposes and tests a correlational model that combines different theoretical determinants of…

Date issued: Mar 2013
Author(s): Bonet, Jaime Alfredo;Rueda, Fabio

En este trabajo se analiza el esfuerzo fiscal que realizan los municipios guatemaltecos sobre el recaudo de su principal ingreso tributario, el Impuesto Único Sobre Inmuebles (IUSI). Los resultados…

Date issued: Mar 2013
Author(s): Di Tata, Juan Carlos;Puerta, Juan Manuel;Gray, Cheryl;Reichmann, Thomas;Suarez, David

One of the most debated parts of the IDB-9 Agreement was the requirement that the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB or Bank) enhance its macroeconomic analysis and link it to its country…

Date issued: Mar 2013
Author(s): Powell, Andrew

Global growth projections have waned since last year and growth may be suppressed below potential for several years to come. Lower global growth will, all things being equal, imply lower growth in…

Date issued: Mar 2013
Author(s): West, George;Soriano, Alejandro;Velarde, Marco

In IDB-9 the Board of Governors of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) mandated the adoption of a results-based budgeting process (RBB) that would be aligned to and would help achieve the key…

Date issued: Mar 2013
Author(s): West, George;Soriano, Alejandro;Velarde, Marco

En BID-9, la Asamblea de Gobernadores del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID) encomendó la adopción de un proceso de presupuesto basado en resultados (PbR) cuyo diseño se encuentre alineado a y…

Date issued: Mar 2013
Author(s): Fevre, Chloe;Myers, Ronald;Schijman, Agustina;Soares, Yuri

This paper reviews the 2011 Sector Strategy on Institutions for Growth and Social Welfare (SIGS) of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB, or Bank). The Strategy was produced as a requirement of…

Date issued: Mar 2013
Author(s): Fevre, Chloe;Myers, Ronald;Schijman, Agustina;Soares, Yuri

Este informe revisa la Estrategia sobre Instituciones para el Crecimiento y el Bienestar Social del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID). La Estrategia fue elaborada como requisito del Acuerdo…

Date issued: Mar 2013
Author(s): Crespo, Anna Risi Vianna;Hallberg, Kris;Ruiz, Nelson;Martin, Lucia;Alonso, Daniel;Broid, Daniel;Zambrano, Patricio;Dal-Toe, Thiago

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB or Bank) has worked hard to increase its capacity to report on results. The importance of this issue is reflected in many of the requirements that stem from…

Date issued: Mar 2013
Author(s): Crespo, Anna Risi Vianna;Hallberg, Kris;Ruiz, Nelson;Martin, Lucia;Alonso, Daniel;Broid, Daniel;Zambrano, Patricio;Dal-Toe, Thiago

El Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID o Banco) se ha esforzado por incrementar su capacidad para informar resultados. La importancia de este asunto se refleja en varios de los requisitos que…

Date issued: Mar 2013
Author(s): Huppi, Monika;Scholl, Lynn;Liebenthal, Andres

This paper reviews to what extent and how effectively the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB, or Bank) is implementing the IDB-9 requirements pertaining to environmental and social safeguards…

Date issued: Mar 2013
Author(s): Huppi, Monika;Scholl, Lynn;Liebenthal, Andres

Este documento analiza hasta qué medida y con qué grado de eficacia el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID o el Banco) implementa los requisitos del IDB-9 respecto de las políticas de…

Date issued: Mar 2013
Author(s): Redwood, John;Alvarez Prado, Lourdes;Gonzalez Diez, Verónica M.

This paper reviews the Inter-American Development Bank¿s Integrated Strategy for Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation, and Sustainable and Renewable Energy (CCS). The Strategy was produced as a…

Date issued: Mar 2013
Author(s): Redwood, John;Alvarez Prado, Lourdes;Gonzalez Diez, Verónica M.

Este informe presenta la revisión de OVE de la Estrategia Integrada de Mitigación y Adaptación al Cambio Climático y Energía Sostenible y Renovable (ECC) del BID. La estrategia ha sido desarrollada…

Date issued: Mar 2013
Author(s): Pires, Jose Claudio Linhares;Frischtak, Claudio;Lodato, Simon;Cravo, Tulio;Piza, Caio;Guasch, José Luis

This background paper assesses the actions of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB, or Bank) related to private sector development (PSD) that were mandated under the Ninth General Capital…

Date issued: Mar 2013
Author(s): Pires, Jose Claudio Linhares;Frischtak, Claudio;Lodato, Simon;Cravo, Tulio;Piza, Caio;Guasch, José Luis

El presente informe detallado evalúa el accionar del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID o Banco) relativo al desarrollo a través del sector privado (DSP) exigido por el Noveno Aumento General de…

Date issued: Mar 2013
Author(s): Gray, Cheryl;Soriano, Alejandro;Huppi, Monika

In 2010 the Governors of the IDB approved two formal agreements -the "Cancun Declaration" and the "Report on the Ninth General Increase in the Resources of the Inter-American…

Date issued: Mar 2013
Author(s): Gray, Cheryl;Soriano, Alejandro;Huppi, Monika

En 2010, los Gobernadores del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo aprobaron dos acuerdos formales -la "Declaración de Cancún" y el Informe IDB-9- que condujeron al Noveno Aumento General de…

Date issued: Mar 2013
Author(s): Raw, Silvia

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB, or Bank), as part of its Ninth General Capital Increase (IDB-9), committed to prepare strategic documents for one of its priority areas, social policy for…

Date issued: Mar 2013
Author(s): Raw, Silvia

El Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID, o el Banco), como parte del Noveno Aumento General de Recursos (BID-9), se comprometió a elaborar documentos estratégicos para una de sus áreas…

Date issued: Mar 2013
Author(s): Puerta, Juan Manuel;Atuesta, Laura

Trade and regional integration in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have been constant goals of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB, or Bank) since its inception. While the Bank has…

Date issued: Mar 2013
Author(s): Puerta, Juan Manuel;Atuesta, Laura

La integración comercial y regional en Latinoamérica y el Caribe han sido objetivos constantes del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID, o Banco) desde su creación. Si bien el Banco ha jugado…

Date issued: Mar 2013
Author(s): Schiavo-Campo, Salvatore;Atuesta, Laura;Schijman, Agustina;Gray, Cheryl

This report reviews the implementation of the measures the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB or Bank) has taken in the three strategic pillars of the anticorruption agenda: (i) strengthen the…

Date issued: Mar 2013
Author(s): Schiavo-Campo, Salvatore;Atuesta, Laura;Schijman, Agustina;Gray, Cheryl

El presente informe analiza la implementación de las medidas que ha adoptado el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID, o el Banco) en los tres pilares estratégicos de la agenda de combate de la…

Date issued: Mar 2013
Author(s): Elías, Carlos;Sembler, Jose Ignacio;Gray, Cheryl;Beuermann, Diether

This paper analyzes whether IDB-9 requirements surrounding the country programming process of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB, or Bank) are being implemented fully and effectively. The…

Date issued: Mar 2013
Author(s): Elías, Carlos;Sembler, Jose Ignacio;Gray, Cheryl;Beuermann, Diether

En presente informe analiza si los requisitos del BID-9 en torno al proceso de programación por país del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (el BID, o el Banco) están siendo implementados en forma…

Date issued: Mar 2013
Author(s): Schiavo-Campo, Salvatore;Atuesta, Laura;Schijman, Agustina;Huppi, Monika

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB, or Bank), in its Ninth General Capital Increase (IDB-9), committed to improve country systems in order to increase their use in programs financed by Bank…

Date issued: Mar 2013
Author(s): Schiavo-Campo, Salvatore;Atuesta, Laura;Schijman, Agustina;Huppi, Monika

El Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID, o Banco), en su Noveno Incremento General de Recursos (BID-9), se comprometió a mejorar los sistemas nacionales para aumentar su uso en los programas…

Date issued: Mar 2013
Author(s): Guerrero, Alejandro;Gwin, Catherine;Ruiz, Mayra;Vellani, Saleema

Following up on the IDB-9 commitments, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB, or Bank) established a new Access to Information Policy that took effect on January 1, 2011. The new policy was…

Date issued: Mar 2013
Author(s): Guerrero, Alejandro;Gwin, Catherine;Ruiz, Mayra;Vellani, Saleema

Siguiendo los compromisos específicos del BID-9, el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (en adelante BID, o 'el Banco') estableció una nueva Política de Acceso a Información que entró en…

Date issued: Mar 2013
Author(s): Velarde, Marco;Soares, Tatiana Fontes;Soriano, Alejandro;Eriksson, John

In IDB-9 the Board of Governors of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB or Bank) mandated implementation of a corporate results framework (CRF), leading to greater emphasis on results throughout…

Date issued: Mar 2013
Author(s): Velarde, Marco;Soares, Tatiana Fontes;Soriano, Alejandro;Eriksson, John

En el contexto del Noveno Aumento General de Capital (BID-9), la Asamblea de Gobernadores del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID o Banco) ordenó la implementación de un Marco de Resultados…

Date issued: Mar 2013
Author(s): Soares, Tatiana Fontes;Gray, Cheryl;Soriano, Alejandro;Smith-Juvelis, Alexis

This paper analyzes whether the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB, or Bank) has fully and effectively implemented the IDB-9 requirements related to risk and financial management. IDB-9 included…

Date issued: Mar 2013
Author(s): Soares, Tatiana Fontes;Gray, Cheryl;Soriano, Alejandro;Smith-Juvelis, Alexis

Este informe analiza en qué medida el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID, o el Banco) ha implementado completa y efectivamente los requisitos del BID-9 en relación con la gestión financiera y de…

Date issued: Mar 2013
Author(s): Corrales, Maria Elena;Alvarez, Lourdes

The objective of this report is to assess the full and effective implementation of the Bank's support to Haiti in the wake of the 2010 earthquake, in fulfillment of the mandates of IDB-9, which…

Date issued: Mar 2013
Author(s): Corrales, Maria Elena;Alvarez, Lourdes

El objetivo del presente informe es evaluar la implementación plena y efectiva del apoyo del Banco a Haití tras el terremoto de 2010, en cumplimiento de los mandatos del IDB9, que incluyeron la…

Date issued: Mar 2013
Author(s): Alonso, Pablo;Schijman, Agustina

This evaluation assesses the implementation of Inter-American Development Bank (IDB, or Bank) commitments related to the human resources (HR) policies set out in the 2007 realignment and IDB-9. Under…

Date issued: Mar 2013
Author(s): Alonso, Pablo;Schijman, Agustina

Esta evaluación analiza la implementación de los compromisos del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID, o el Banco) relativos a las políticas de Recursos Humanos (RH) establecidas en el…

Date issued: Mar 2013
Author(s): Soldano, Miguel

During 2008 and 2009, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB, or Bank) assessed and documented shortcomings and constraints in its information technology (IT) capabilities, and in 2008 it created…

Date issued: Mar 2013
Author(s): Soldano, Miguel

Durante 2008 y 2009, el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (el BID, o el Banco) evaluó y documentó las debilidades y las restricciones de sus capacidades de tecnología de la información (TI) y, en…

Date issued: Mar 2013
Author(s): Beuermann, Diether;Huppi, Monika;Sembler, Jose Ignacio;Kavalsky, Basil

The IDB-9 Agreement asks whether the financial instruments of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) are properly aligned with the needs of clients. Before the global financial crisis, the Bank…