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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
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 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): 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): 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): Terry, Donald F.