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Date issued: Dec 2000 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Fernández-Arias, Eduardo;Hausmann, Ricardo

This paper considers ongoing and proposed reforms of the international financial system in light of Latin America's recent experience. Most proposals are based on one of three diagnoses:…

Date issued: Nov 2000 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Winters, L. Alan

The growth of regional trading blocs has been one of the major developments in international relations in recent years. Virtually all countries are members of a bloc and many belong to more than one…

Date issued: Nov 2000
Author(s): Weinberger, Eliot

Eliot Weinberger (1949-), North American essayist and primary translator of Octavio Paz, PEN/Kolovakos Award (1992), National Book Critics Circle Award (1999).

Date issued: Nov 2000
Author(s): Weinberger, Eliot

Eliot Weinberger (1949-), editor y traductor estadounidense de Octavio Paz, y ganador de los Premios PEN/Kolovakos (1992) y Círculo de Críticos del Libro Nacional (1999).

Date issued: Nov 2000
Author(s): Ca'Zorzi, Antonio

This paper discusses the impact of electronic commerce on the private sector of developing countries and outlines the potential role of the Inter American Development Bank in promoting the use of ICT…

Date issued: Nov 2000
Author(s): Donahue, Madeleine

This document presents a concept paper, intended to assist the Andean/Amazon Basin countries to develop proposals, in consultation with indigenous organizations, for 1) the financing of consultations…

Date issued: Nov 2000
Author(s): Jansson, Tor;Taborga, Miguel

This publication aims to help donors, creditors and investors evaluate the performance, condition and risk of individual microfinance institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean, in hopes of…

Date issued: Nov 2000 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Cercone, James Anthony;Durán-Valverde, Fabio;Muñoz-Vargas, Erlend

El presente trabajo tiene como propósito presentar los principales resultados del análisis de la relación entre la existencia de mecanismos organizacionales tendientes a promover la transparencia y…

Date issued: Nov 2000 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Rodrik, Dani

Economists are trained to think about trade policy reform in terms of changes in the levels of tariffs and quantitative restrictions and the shifts in relative prices brought about by these…

Date issued: Nov 2000 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Shinkai, Naoko

Stolper-Samuelson (SS) and Specific-Factors (SF) versions make opposite predictions about the correlation between prices and wages of certain types of workers (specific factors in industries) when…