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Does Privatization Deliver?: Access to Telephone Services and Household Income in Poor Rural Areas Using a Quasi-Natural Experiment in Peru
Does Privatization Deliver?: Access to Telephone Services and Household Income in Poor Rural Areas Using a Quasi-Natural Experiment in Peru

Date issued: 12月 2005 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Galdo, Virgilio;Torero, Máximo;Chong, Alberto E.

This paper takes advantage of a quasi-natural experiment in Peru by which the privatized telecommunications company was required by government to randomly install and operate public pay phones in…
Innovation Shortfalls
Innovation Shortfalls

Date issued: 12月 2005 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Maloney, William;Rodríguez-Clare, Andrés

There is a common perception that low productivity or low growth is due to what can be called an innovation shortfall, usually identified as a low rate of investment in research and development (R…
Who is Responsible for Responsibility?
Who is Responsible for Responsibility?

Date issued: 12月 2005
Author(s): Vives, Antonio;Peinado-Vara, Estrella;Teixidó, Soledad;Schwalb, María Matilde;Gutiérrez, Roberto;Pizzolante, Italo;Majluf, Nicolás;Rader, Jim;Austin, James

III Inter American Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility Proceedings,Santiago Chile.
Exploiting International Financial Markets to Manage Natural Hazard Risks in Latin America
Exploiting International Financial Markets to Manage Natural Hazard Risks in Latin America

Date issued: 12月 2005
Author(s): Pettersen, Ivar;Skjelvik, John Magne;Krokeide, Nils Atle

This technical paper analyzes the potential practical application of financial instruments for natural hazard risk finance and transfer in Latin America. The study first presents an overview of the…
Corporate Social Responsibility in Latin America: Responsible Solutions to Business and Social Problems
Corporate Social Responsibility in Latin America: Responsible Solutions to Business and Social Problems

Date issued: 12月 2005
Author(s): Peinado-Vara, Estrella

Socially and environmentally responsible business practices contribute to poverty relief and business success. This report presents some examples and lessons from private initiatives to solve…
Forest Vocation Lands and Forest Policy: When Simpler is Better
Forest Vocation Lands and Forest Policy: When Simpler is Better

Date issued: 12月 2005
Author(s): Nascimento, José Rente

This paper addresses forest policies concerned with the adequate provision of forest related externalities. Despite the use of the forest vocation land (FVL) in the legislation of many Latin American…
Los posibles efectos de la liberalización comercial en los hogares rurales de El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala y Nicaragua a partir de un modelo desagregado para la economía rural
Los posibles efectos de la liberalización comercial en los hogares rurales de El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala y Nicaragua a partir de un modelo desagregado para la economía rural

Date issued: 12月 2005
Author(s): Taylor, J. Edward;Yúñez Naude, Antonio;Jesurun-Clements, Nancy

El presente estudio tuvo como objetivo medir los posibles efectos directos e indirectos en la economía rural de las nuevas condiciones comerciales que enfrentan El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras y…
Estrategia de estabilización para los precios del petróleo en América Central
Estrategia de estabilización para los precios del petróleo en América Central

Date issued: 12月 2005
Author(s): Rigobón, Roberto

El presente estudio versa sobre el establecimiento de un fondo de estabilización del precio del petróleo que mitigue el impacto del aumento en el precio internacional del crudo sobre las economías…
El Salvador: Análisis de competitividad y medio ambiente (ACMA): Prioridades para la gestión ambiental
El Salvador: Análisis de competitividad y medio ambiente (ACMA): Prioridades para la gestión ambiental

Date issued: 12月 2005
Author(s): Pratt, Lawrence;Rivera, Luis;Quiroga, Ricardo

Este documento, en el contexto de El Salvador, busca demostrar que el clima de negocios, las relaciones comerciales y la competitividad no están desasociados del desempeño ambiental. Al contrario, un…
Bank Credit to Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: The Role of Creditor Protection
Bank Credit to Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: The Role of Creditor Protection

Date issued: 12月 2005 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Galindo, Arturo;Micco, Alejandro

This paper develops a model showing that inefficient legal protections disproportionately increase financial restrictions for creditors that have less wealth. Due to fixed monitoring costs in…