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Date issued: Jan 2006
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

This study is a great achievement of the ADR Network for 2005. The report is innovate for several reasons: i) it is the first comparative study on the subject that has ever been conducted in the…

Date issued: Jan 2006
Author(s): Agosin, Manuel R.

This study deals with the appropriate macroeconomic policies toward international capital flows. It argues that countries in a position to integrate themselves into world capital markets should…

Date issued: Jan 2006
Author(s): Agosin, Manuel R.;Machado, Roberto

Liberalizing measures have been outnumbering by far the introduction of greater restrictions. However, the reports are silent on how liberal the policy regimes of individual countries really are and…

Date issued: Jan 2006 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Monaldi, Francisco;González de Pacheco, Rosa Amelia;Obuchi, Richard;Penfold, Michael

This case study of Venezuela's democratic institution and policymaking processes is part of the broader regional project based on the theoretical framework developed by Spiller, Stein and…

Date issued: Jan 2006
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

The Social Inclusion Trust Fund (the Fund), created in 2003 with support from the Royal Norwegian Foreign Ministry and Great Britain (DFID), is compelled at the end of its first three-year period, to…

Date issued: Jan 2006
Author(s): Manzetti, Luigi;Rufín, Carlos

This report examines the problems of theft, nonpayment and political opportunism in the aftermath of privatization by considering the recent experiences of four private utilities in Latin America…

Date issued: Jan 2006
Author(s): Ferroni, Marco;Mateo-Berganza Díaz, María Mercedes;Payne, J. Mark

The present document seeks to set forth the IDB's commitment to the objectives contained in the Declaration of Guadalajara and the parallel Memorandum of Understanding, a commitment that has…

Date issued: Jan 2006
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

This report summarizes the activities of the IDB Cultural Center in 2005. During 2005, the Cultural Center (CCN) exceeded its four primary objectives, all aligned with the Bank's Communications…

Date issued: Jan 2006
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

Este informe es un resumen de las actividades del Centro Cultural del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo en 2005. En 2005 el CCN cumplió con creces los objetivos de sus cuatro programas principales,…

Date issued: Jan 2006 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Murillo, Maria Victoria;Schneider, Ben Ross;Iacoviello, Mercedes;Scartascini, Carlos;Monaldi, Francisco;Payne, J. Mark;Martínez-Gallardo, Cecilia;Stein, Ernesto H.;Echebarría, Koldo;Whitehead, Laurence;Mateo-Berganza Díaz, María Mercedes;Lora, Eduardo;Filc, Gabriel;Bergara, Mario;Saiegh, Sebastián;Magaldi de Sousa, Mariana;Navarro, Juan Carlos;Mercer-Blackman, Valerie;Pereyra, Andrés;Cárdenas, Mauricio;Tommasi, Mariano;Santiso, Javier;Hughes, Sallie;Zuvanic, Laura;Jones, Mark P.;Clavijo, Laura

This report examines the quality of public policies in Latin America and the Caribbean after more than a decade of political and economic reform. A wide variety of examples and case studies are…