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Date issued:
1月 1999
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Microfinance and Poverty probes a set of assumptions that have arisen about microfinance and poverty reduction and that have become the conventional wisdom, although they have not been proven. These…
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1月 1999
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Microfinanzas y pobreza es una obra técnica en la que se analizan pruebas y estudios con el objetivo de determinar qué microempresarios podrían beneficiarse de la ampliación de las microfinanzas, de…
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1月 1999
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Justice Beyond Our Borders looks at successful judicial systems and practices outside of Latin America that could serve as models for countries of the region. It examines large-scale judicial…
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1月 1999
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El objetivo de este libro consiste en presentar, pragmáticamente, algunos de los esfuerzos de reforma judicial que han sido exitosos fuera de la región o más allá de nuestras fronteras, indicando qué…
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1月 1999
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Financial Risk Management outlines how to implement an objective and systematic risk management program that allows for effective control and evaluation of operations. This comprehensive guide is…
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1月 1999
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Este libro pretende ayudar a las entidades de crédito y empresas de América Latina a implantar un modelo sistemático, objetivo y homogéneo de gestión de riesgos, que permita evaluar y controlar la…
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1月 1999
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Recognizing the need to improve the quality of financial disclosure by private sector firms in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Inter-American Development Bank sponsored a conference in…
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1月 1999
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Reconociendo la importancia de las buenas normas de contabilidad y auditoría, el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo, junto con la Comisión de Normas Internacionales de Contabilidad y la Asociación…
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1月 1999
La presente publicación es el resumen de un estudio sobre el impacto de los cultivos ilícitos entre las comunidades indígenas de Colombia. El trabajo analiza la realidad de los indígenas de Colombia…
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1月 1999
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The book gives traffic engineers, planners, and managers a methodology to identify, analyze, and correct factors that cause traffic accidents. The procedures and materials required are of low cost…
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1月 1999
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La publicación de esta obra pone a la disposición del público de habla hispana un documento de gran utilidad para reducir los accidentes de tránsito, que ya constituyen una de las principales causas…
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1月 1999
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A Praz-nos publicar em língua Portuguesa uma obra que já demonstrou ser de grande utilidade para reduzir os acidentes de trânsito, uma das principais causas de morte no Brasil. Proporciona aos…
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1月 1999
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While privatization of water, electricity, transport and communications infrastructure continues to gain momentum in Latin America, its success often depends on whether countries implement the…
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1月 1999
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Latin America loses about nine trillion cubic meters of water each year, or some 30 percent of the water collected and treated for public consumption. While it is impossible for water systems to…
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1月 1999
One-page 1999 map outlining remittance flows to Latin America and the Caribbean.
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1月 1999
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Financial turmoil is becoming a fact of life in Latin America. The 1990s have been characterized by enormous volatility in the magnitude and cost of capital flows. The correlation of capital swings…
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1月 1999
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In this paper, social mobility is measured by looking at the extent to which family background determines socioeconomic success. An index of social mobility for developing countries is proposed based…
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1月 1999
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This paper presents a rational political budget cycle model for an open economy, in which devaluations are delayed in the pre-election period so as to increase the electoral chances of the party in…
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1月 1999
In the winter of 1996, Canada's third largest financial institution, the Bank of Montreal, launched a now infamous advertising campaign in which it asked the question: Can a bank change? While…
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1月 1999
Governments in many countries -at all levels of development- struggle with increasing budget deficits and soaring national debts. Over the last century, government spending, as a percentage of gross…
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1月 1999
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The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the determinants of elderly health in the context of Mexico as a developing country and the relationship between health indicators and earnings in the…
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12月 1998
Este ensayo es el primero de una serie de estudios sobre la pobreza y las estrategias de reducción de la pobreza indígena que ofrece un insumo importante al documento formal de la estrategia del BID…
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12月 1998
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.
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12月 1998
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…
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12月 1998
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Following the 1994 financial crisis, the rate of saving of the Mexican economy fell from 21.7 percent to 19.8 percent of GDP. The decline was associated with a reduction in the rate of external…
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12月 1998
Este documento fue presentado durante la II Cumbre de Presidentes, Santiago, Chile (17-19 de abril de 1998), en el cual se efectúa un análisis global de la evolución del proceso del Area de Libre…
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12月 1998
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"Incierto era ayer el nœmero de victimas que dejaron las incursiones de un grupo de autodefensas en Mapiripán (Meta). Aunque en el casco urbano fueron hallados tres cuerpos sin cabezas y otros…
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12月 1998
This paper provides an alternative approach to measuring the cost-effectiveness of educational interventions. The authors devised a questionnaire and gave it to ten international experts, mainly…
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12月 1998
This document presents a coastal and marine resources management strategy for the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). The strategy provides new directions for Bank activities which significantly…
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12月 1998
This technical study contains the strategy of the Inter-American Development Bank for its involvement in integrated water resources management in Latin America and the Caribbean. The strategy was…
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12月 1998
The first part of this discussion paper attempts, within the inevitable data limitations, to present some picture of patterns of indigenous poverty over time. In addition, the first section examines…
Date issued:
12月 1998
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En relación con los países desarrollados, las ventajas comparativas de la región centroamericana se encuentran en procesos productivos de uso intensivo de mano de obra barata y recursos naturales.…
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12月 1998
Este documento (ENV 111) presenta los resultados del Taller sobre Inversiones en la Conservación de la Diversidad Biológica que se celebró en el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo el 28 de octubre de…
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12月 1998
El presente documento (ENV-128) expone una estrategia de manejo de los recursos costeros y marinos para el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo. El manejo costero integrado se presenta como una…
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12月 1998
En el presente documento se ofrece una visión general de la forma en que las actividades crediticias y no crediticias del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo pueden contribuir a reducir la pobreza en…
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12月 1998
En este informe técnico figura la estrategia del Banco para su participación en el manejo integrado de los recursos hídricos en América Latina y el Caribe. La estrategia fue formulada mediante un…
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12月 1998
El objetivo del presente documento (ENV-124) es proponer opciones para aumentar la efectividad de los mercados de tierras rurales en América Latina y el Caribe. En la introducción se sitúa el tema de…
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12月 1998
The second issue of the Microenterprise Development Review offers two main articles: "Microfinance Guarantees: Is There Another Model?" and "Regulating Microfinance." The first…
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12月 1998
El presente número de Microempresa ofrece dos artículos principales. En el primero se analizan modelos alternativos de esquemas garantías para instituciones microfinancieras (IFM). Una de las…
Date issued:
12月 1998
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The decade of the 1990s has witnessed a wave of regional integration initiatives in Latin America: more than 14 agreements -free trade areas or customs unions- since 1990 with a handful more in…
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12月 1998
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The debate on the effectiveness of foreign aid has intensified in recent years as aid has come under increasing budgetary pressures in donor countries. Whatever the merits of the opposing arguments,…
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12月 1998
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The model presented in the paper generates important implications concerning how the allocation of resources between children varies across income groups. In the model, poor and middle-income…
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12月 1998
Good practices in targeting, as highlighted here, with an additional effort to go beyond the letter of the law in the identification of project beneficiaries. Effective and efficient targeting…
Date issued:
12月 1998
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This paper (ENV-126) was originally presented at a National Science Foundation Workshop on Alternatives to Traditional Contingent Valuation Methods in Environmental Valuation, held at Vanderbilt…
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12月 1998
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Early Childhood Interventions (ECI) are ideally designed to achieve a series of mutually reinforcing objectives with the overarching goal of helping to improve equality of opportunity for children in…
Date issued:
11月 1998
Fred D'Aguiar (1960-), UK/Guyanese novelist and poet, Guyana Prize for Poetry (1986), Malcolm X Poetry Prize (1986), Whitbread First Novel Award (1994).
Date issued:
11月 1998
Fred D'Aguiar (1960-), novelista y poeta inglés-guyanés, ganador de los Premios Poesía en Guyana (1986), Malcolm X de Poesía (1986), y Whitbread de Obras de Ficción (1944).
Date issued:
11月 1998
Presenta un cuadro amplio sobre el funcionamiento institucional del bloque que abarca el período anterior a la existencia del agrupamiento subregional, haciendo referencia a los acuerdos bilaterales…
Date issued:
11月 1998
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En los esfuerzos por entender la crisis de balanza de pagos de diciembre de 1994, una pregunta ha ocupado lugar preponderante: ¿A que se ha debido el peculiar comportamiento que tuvo durante los…
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11月 1998
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Las causas de la "explosión de desempleo" y de la escasa creación de empleos ocurridas en la Argentina hasta 1995 y sus perspectivas futuras son los dos hilos conductores de este documento…