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Date issued: 4月 2006
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

En el mundo de hoy la identidad es un tema cada vez más álgido. La identidad es el punto de partida, ya sea en la cacería de terroristas, la búsqueda de niños extraviados, la identificación de…

Date issued: 3月 2006
Author(s): Crawley, Andrew;Vodusek, Ziga;Giordano, Paolo;Sobral de Elía, Mariana;Estevadeordal, Antoni;Shearer, Matthew;Vignoles, Christopher;Suominen, Kati

This report ( a special issue of the Periodic Note on Integration and Trade in the Americas) devotes great attention to particular challenges that confront the EU and LAC, as well as the…

Date issued: 3月 2006
Author(s): Crawley, Andrew;Vodusek, Ziga;Giordano, Paolo;Sobral de Elía, Mariana;Estevadeordal, Antoni;Shearer, Matthew;Vignoles, Christopher;Suominen, Kati

En el presente informe (número especial de la Nota Periódica sobre Integración y Comercio en las Américas) el interés se ha centrado en los desafíos específicos que enfrentan la Unión Europea y…

Date issued: 3月 2006 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Panizza, Ugo;Borensztein, Eduardo;Eichengreen, Barry

Spreads on sovereign bonds are at an all-time low, at least since the current era of emerging economy bond markets began in the 1990s. This paper examines the current state of the international and…

Date issued: 3月 2006 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Jaimovich, Dany;Panizza, Ugo

Commonly used datasets on the level of public debt provide incomplete country and period coverage. This paper presents a new dataset that includes complete series of central government debt for 89…

Date issued: 3月 2006
Author(s): Sabatini, Francisco

El presente informe expone las características y tendencias de la segregación residencial en las ciudades de América Latina, sus causas y consecuencias, el estado de la investigación en este campo, y…

Date issued: 3月 2006
Author(s): Sabatini, Francisco

The cities offer Latin America and the Caribbean their best opportunity for economic and social development. Aside from concentrating on more than two thirds of the population, it is estimated that…

Date issued: 3月 2006
Author(s): Orozco, Manuel

This is the last version available of "Diasporas, Philanthropy and Hometown Associations: The Central American Experience". This paper looks at the experience of Hometown Associations (HTAs…

Date issued: 3月 2006 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Jaimovich, Dany;Panizza, Ugo;Campos, Camil F.S.

This paper shows that budget deficits account for a relatively small fraction of debt growth and that stock-flow reconciliation, which is often considered a residual entity, is one of the key…

Date issued: 3月 2006 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Chong, Alberto E.

Based on research in linguistics and psychology I use language speech as a reflection of acculturation. I use individual and city-level data from the Lake Ontario area in Canada and study the…

Date issued: 3月 2006 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Iannelli, Norberto;Giordano, Paolo;Volpe Martincus, Christian;Zeballos, Erick

El presente documento de discusión (Issues Paper) no pretende abracar todos los elementos que se abordarán en la Nota Temática, sino que se limita a identificar de manera preliminar algunos temas de…

Date issued: 3月 2006
Author(s): Devlin, Robert;Estevadeordal, Antoni;Suominen, Kati;Shearer, Matthew;Miller, Eric T.;Cornejo, Rafael;Mesquita Moreira, Mauricio;Stabilito, Augusto;Sobral de Elía, Mariana;Skinner, Martha

El objetivo de este documento es informar al personal del Banco, así como a otros interesados sobre los últimos desarrollos en integración y comercio en los países del Hemisferio Occidental, y, entre…

Date issued: 3月 2006
Author(s): Murillo Torrecilla, F. Javier

Esta presentación fue comisionada por la Red de Educación del Diálogo Regional de Política para la Reunión Subregional de Centroamérica celebrada los días 16 y 17 de marzo de 2006 en República…

Date issued: 3月 2006 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Galdo, Virgilio;Chong, Alberto E.

Critics of globalization claim that foreign ownership of privatized firms is linked to negative post-privatization labor outcomes, such as more firing and less hiring. This paper uses new firm-level…

Date issued: 3月 2006 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Calderón, María Cecilia;Chong, Alberto E.;Gradstein, Mark

The aim of this paper is to provide empirical evidence on the link between foreign aid and income inequality for the period 1973-2002. Since simple cross-country regressions cannot be taken as true…

Date issued: 3月 2006 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Gradstein, Mark;Chong, Alberto E.

Since efforts by industrial countries to increase the amount of foreign aid they provide have been on the rise recently, it is important to understand the determinants involved. This paper examines…

Date issued: 3月 2006 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Borensztein, Eduardo;Panizza, Ugo

This paper uses a difference-in-difference methodology similar to the one originally proposed by Rajan and Zingales (1998) to test whether defaulting hurts the more export-oriented industries. Strong…

Date issued: 3月 2006 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Licha, Isabel;Molina, Carlos Gerardo

Con base en el análisis de experiencias relevantes y de literatura especializada en el tema, proponemos en este trabajo un decálogo de criterios para enmarcar la coordinación de las políticas…

Date issued: 3月 2006
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

El objetivo de esta herramienta es proporcionar elementos sistemáticos y prácticas esenciales para que los procesos y las actividades que conducen a la reintegración social de los niños de la calle…

Date issued: 3月 2006 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Echeverry, Juan Carlos;Bonilla, Jorge Alexander;Moya, Andrés

Este documento fue comisionado por la Red de Gestión Pública y Transparencia del Diálogo Regional de Política para la VII Reunión Hemisférica celebrada los días 8 y 9 de mayo de 2006.

Date issued: 3月 2006 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): De Paiva Abreu, Marcelo

The interest of specific Latin American economies in the successful completion of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) negotiations is very heterogeneous. A list of relevant factors to explain…

Date issued: 3月 2006
Author(s): Jul, Ana María

Este documento constituye el informe elaborado bajo la consultoría sobre operaciones extrapresupuestarias que se realizó por encargo del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo para la reunión de la Red…

Date issued: 3月 2006
Author(s): Ordóñez Bustamante, Dwight;Bracamonte Bardález, Patricia

La presente investigación tiene como objetivo examinar la interacción entre la falta de registro de nacimiento y/o de cédula de identidad y el acceso a beneficios y programas sociales en niño(as) y…

Date issued: 3月 2006 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Riaño, Alejandro;Chong, Alberto E.

This paper studies the link between the political and institutional context and privatization sales prices. The latter serves as a measure for assessing the relative performance of the privatization…

Date issued: 3月 2006
Author(s): Devoto, Florencia

This study was part of the analytic work carried out in preparation for the Bank's Strategy with Belize in 2004. The objective of this document is to examine the relationship between economic…