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Date issued:
Jan 1998
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Este volumen contiene los anales de un seminario sobre modernización de las finanzas municipales. En el seminario se discutieron e intercambiaron experiencias sobre las políticas que los gobiernos…
Date issued:
Jan 1998
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La compatibilización entre el desarrollo agropecuario, la reducción de la pobreza rural y la conservación de los recursos naturales y del medio ambiente constituye uno de los más importantes desafíos…
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Jan 1998
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A good liability management strategy is one that helps minimize the cost of borrowing over the medium and long term. The objective is not to save the last basis point in each transaction, but rather…
Date issued:
Jan 1998
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Although the region remains highly centralized, the tendency toward decentralization is quite strong. Not only is a larger portion of the general government budget executed from the subnational…
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Jan 1998
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La característica notable del comportamiento de la tasa de ahorro privado en Venezuela es su tendencia secular a reducirse desde los elevados niveles experimentados durante los años setenta a los muy…
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Jan 1998
During 1997, MERCOSUR countries again experienced both an acceleration in their economic growth rates and a reduction in inflation rates. This favorable performance was accompanied by an improved…
Date issued:
Jan 1998
This Annual Report details the Bank's activities in environment and natural resources during 1998. During the past year the Bank has continued to implement the mandates of the Eight…
Date issued:
Jan 1998
Este ensayo se presenta dada la gran variedad de actores que intervienen en la promoción de las microfinanzas. Esta herramienta ha sido diseñada para orientar a una amplia gama de instituciones y…
Date issued:
Jan 1998
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The promise of technology and the need for caution in its application were the topics of the Seminar on Education in the Information Age held in Cartagena, Colombia on July 1997, sponsored by the IDB…
Date issued:
Jan 1998
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En este libro se presentan los temas discutidos durante el Seminario "La educación en la era de la informática", realizado en Cartagena, Colombia en julio de 1997. El evento fue organizado…
Date issued:
Jan 1998
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What did the Latin American economies achieve in the course of a hundred years and how has this affected standards of living? This comprehensive history examines the political and economic forces…
Date issued:
Jan 1998
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Esta historia económica revisa las fuerzas políticas, institucionales y económicas que determinaron el complejo y a veces paradójico proceso de desarrollo de la región durante el siglo XX.
Date issued:
Jan 1998
Con el fin de establecer lineamientos basados en mejores prácticas para el éxito de los proyectos de áreas verdes urbanas, promover la cooperación entre los países miembros del BID e identificar la…
Date issued:
Jan 1998
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Latin American experts demonstrate how market-friendly measures in key policy areas can promote greater equity and efficiency. By identifying win-win strategies, the authors challenge the…
Date issued:
Jan 1998
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In High Price for Change, a distinguished economist discusses the impact of Mexico's privatization on government finances, the balance of payments, and the financial market, as well as on…
Date issued:
Jan 1998
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This book focuses in detail on the analysis of foreign direct investment flows to Latin America and the Caribbean from the vantage point and on the basis of statistical sources from the main investor…
Date issued:
Dec 1997
IDB America reports on economic and social development trends in Latin America and the Caribbean and on the activities of the IDB. It is published 10 times annually in Spanish and English.
Date issued:
Dec 1997
BID América cubre las tendencias del desarrollo económico y social de América Latina y el Caribe y las actividades del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo. Se publica 10 veces al año en castellano e…
Date issued:
Dec 1997
Forty-two paintings, lithographs and sculptures in wood, bronze and stone, that illustrate the 18th century colonial era, early 20th century and the 1960s and '70s; from the National Gallery of…
Date issued:
Dec 1997
In this best practice paper a mixed integer optimization approach to the selection of sanitary landfill site sizes and locations in a regional context is explained and illustrated using stylized cost…
Date issued:
Dec 1997
This paper analyzes the property rights/deforestation linkage in Latin America. The analysis recognizes two separate areas where tenure issues have an effect on land clearing pressures. The first…
Date issued:
Dec 1997
Conservation of freshwater biodiversity has been seriously neglected throughout the world, and entire ecosystems are threatened with extinction. Unfortunately, freshwater sustainability issues do not…
Date issued:
Dec 1997
This paper discusses privatization among investments in infrastructure. The goal of this paper is to present a new auction mechanism that solves many of the problems that have hindered the use of…
Date issued:
Dec 1997
The objective of this paper is to analyze some issues and challenges related to private toll road developments in Latin American countries and explore new schemes to mitigate some problems that often…
Date issued:
Dec 1997
This paper discusses the radical change of the role of the public sector in the financing of infrastructure projects during the nineties. The generalized response to the new environment has taken the…