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Date issued:
6月 2000
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Recent improvements in the Internet are revolutionizing the way companies market their services. This book examines the effectiveness of e-mail promotion as a complement to marketing strategies used…
Date issued:
5月 2000
María Susana Azzi (1952-), Argentine cultural anthropologist, Board Member of the Astor Piazzolla Foundation and the National Academy of Tango in Buenos Aires.
Date issued:
5月 2000
María Susana Azzi (1952-), antropóloga cultural argentina, miembro del directorio de la Fundación Astor Piazzolla y de la Academia Nacional del Tango en Buenos Aires.
Date issued:
5月 2000
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Los seis casos de inversión privada en infraestructura muestran marcadas diferencias tanto en términos del desempeño empresarial como en relación al nivel de adecuación de las modalidades…
Date issued:
5月 2000
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There are few Latin American countries that produced such a remarkable turnaround in policies and outcomes as Argentina did in the 1990s. The large number of reforms yielded surprisingly strong…
Date issued:
5月 2000
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This study examines the impact of unions on wages and employment using data from Uruguay in a period when unions were banned (1973-1984), then legalized with tripartite bargaining (1984-1991)…
Date issued:
5月 2000
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Utilizing differences-in-differences estimates, this paper reviews the impact of reduced firing costs on the dynamism of the Colombian labor market. The effects include raising exit rates into and…
Date issued:
5月 2000
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This paper analyzes the effects of several aspects of labor legislation that were modified through successive waves of reform since 1991. Firing costs diminished sharply through the progressive…
Date issued:
5月 2000
El presente estudio analiza los cambios demográficos, socio-económicos y culturales actuales e históricos de las comunidades indígenas tradicionales y de su medio ambiente que han resultado en una…
Date issued:
5月 2000
A pesar del esfuerzo de los organismos multilaterales para erradicar la pobreza en la población indígena, la brecha entre los indígenas y el resto de la población en lugar de disminuir ha aumentado,…
Date issued:
5月 2000
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This paper tests whether Rodrik's (1999) results that institutions for conflict management are associated with the ability to react to economic shocks are robust to different ways of defining…
Date issued:
5月 2000
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The present study describes the changes in the traditional European model of higher education, its successes as well as failures. The remarkable expansion of higher education in Europe during the…
Date issued:
5月 2000
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Countries that are classified as having floating exchange rate systems (or very wide bands) show strikingly different patterns of behavior. They hold very different levels of international reserves…
Date issued:
4月 2000
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:
4月 2000
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:
4月 2000
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This paper takes seriously the recent claim made by Ethier [1998] that the "New Regionalism" reflects the success of the multilateral trading system, not its failure. In fact, the New…
Date issued:
4月 2000
One of the first questions that has to be answered in the survey design process is "How many subjects should be interviewed?" The answer can have significant implications for the cost of…
Date issued:
4月 2000
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Esta investigación tiene la intención de identificar las relaciones entre geografía y desarrollo en Bolivia. Dos grandes líneas de pensamiento se encuentran subyacentes en todo el estudio. Por una…
Date issued:
4月 2000
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Este trabajo analiza el papel de las características geográficas en la explicación del patrón de desarrollo económico regional en México. Los resultados obtenidos demuestran que algunas variables…
Date issued:
4月 2000
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One of the major economic challenges facing the Caribbean is the generation of employment opportunities to reduce the high levels of unemployment experienced primarily among the young and female…
Date issued:
4月 2000
This article examines the Enterprise Development Center (EDC) Rafaela-Esperanza's operating efficiency, financial self-sufficiency, coverage, and effectiveness. In general, EDCs must balance…
Date issued:
4月 2000
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This paper aims to shed light on changes in the saving behavior of microentrepreneurs in response to improved access to credit. This paper argues that it is necessary to extend the analysis to the…
Date issued:
4月 2000
This paper discusses the need for a Bank subnational development strategy. The subnational development strategy provides the Bank with a comprehensive framework to support borrowing member countries…
Date issued:
4月 2000
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In this paper, we use a panel approach to study population growth in major cities around the world. We find that major cities grow faster in relatively backward economies and in more volatile, faster…
Date issued:
3月 2000
The Annual Report contains a review of the Bank's operations in 1999.
Date issued:
3月 2000
Este Informe anual contiene un examen de las operaciones del Banco en 1999.
Date issued:
3月 2000
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This paper was prepared for the Seminar The New Wave of Capital Inflows: Sea Change or Tide? Annual Meetings of the Board of Governors, Inter-American Development Bank and Inter-American Investment…
Date issued:
3月 2000
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It has been common to attribute financial crises to short-term capital inflows, while foreign direct investment (FDI) is seen as a safer form of finance. The relationship between crises and the…
Date issued:
3月 2000
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This paper studies the proposition that capital inflows tend to take the form of FDI -i.e., the share of FDI in total liabilities tends to be higher- in countries that are safer, more promising and…
Date issued:
3月 2000
Presentación que abarca información sobre el reglamento ambiental. Menciona la gestión ambiental del MITINCI como un instrumento no solo para cuidar el medio ambiente, sino además, para contribuir…
Date issued:
3月 2000
For the nations of Latin America and the Caribbean to respond effectively to the Climate Change challenge, they need to be able to understand what the impacts of Climate Change may be for each…
Date issued:
3月 2000
New Strategy for Environment and Private Sector¿: Speech delivered by Eugenio Clariond Reyes-Retana
Date issued:
3月 2000
Este informe presenta los resultados de un estudio de casos sobre la agricultura no tradicional de exportación en Petrolina-Juazeiro (Nordeste de Brasil), Ecuador y Guatemala que analizó el papel de…
Date issued:
3月 2000
This report (RE-240) by the Evaluation Office presents the findings of an evaluation of the cooperation between the Bank and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in the execution of Bank-…
Date issued:
3月 2000
Este informe (RE-240) realizado por la Oficina de Evaluación presenta las conclusiones de una evaluación de la cooperación entre el Banco y el Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD…
Date issued:
3月 2000
Sixty objects and historic documents from the Historic New Orleans Collection, the Louisiana State Museum, and the New Orleans Museum of Art, including maps, photographs, lithographs, land deeds,…
Date issued:
3月 2000
This document was prepared by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) for the "Confronting Natural Disasters: A Matter…
Date issued:
3月 2000
Apesar da reiterada profissão de fé integradora, explicitada em diferentes oportunidades pelas máximasautoridades dos quatro países sócios, a modificação da política cambial disposta pelo governo…
Date issued:
3月 2000
Este documento fue elaborado por el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID) y la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) para el Seminario "Enfrentando Desastres Naturales:…
Date issued:
3月 2000
This paper presents the experiences of the housing finance market in Chile. It was first presented at a regional conference on the development of mortgage securitization held at the Inter-American…
Date issued:
3月 2000
In this note, the authors detail the mechanics of the nonparametric mean and variance calculations of finding willingness to pay (WTP) estimates. There are (at least) three nonparametric estimators…
Date issued:
3月 2000
This report provides an overview of the current state of affairs regarding capacity to cope with natural disasters in the region, an analysis of what needs to be done, and a plan of action with…
Date issued:
3月 2000
This paper discusses infrastructure investment and the need for private financing, in turn with the trend of pension fund reform. This paper outlines the conditions under which sources and uses of…
Date issued:
3月 2000
Desarrollo no implica simplemente crecimiento económico. Completar este enfoque considerando la importancia de la distribución de los beneficios de ese crecimiento, tampoco brinda una definición…
Date issued:
3月 2000
Realiza un análisis del concepto de inversión responsable como parte de la competitividad sistémica orientada al desarrollo sostenible.