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Date issued: 12월 2013
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

La carta mensual del INTAL informa sobre desarrollos en las áreas de integración y comercio en las regiones de América Latina y el Caribe. También es el medio para difundir las actividades realizadas…

Date issued: 12월 2013
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desenvolvimento

A carta mensal do INTAL informa sobre os desenvolvimentos nas áreas de integração e comércio nas regiões da América Latina e do Caribe. É também um meio de difusão das atividades do BID sobre estes…

Date issued: 12월 2013
Author(s): McNish, Brian;Granada, Isabel

This Technical Note was prepared to support the transport sector policy dialogue between the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Government of Belize. The note provides an overview of the…

Date issued: 12월 2013 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Miller, Sebastián J.;Vela, Mauricio A.

In addition to the morbidity and mortality concerns of outdoor air pollution, studies have shown that air pollution also generates problems for children`s cognitive performance and human capital…

Date issued: 12월 2013
Author(s): Brakarz, José;Jaitman, Laura

This technical note analyzes the methodologies used to evaluate neighborhood upgrading programs, describes their results, and suggests approaches for future evaluations. Local and central governments…

Date issued: 12월 2013 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Morales Sarriera, Javier;Serebrisky, Tomás;Araya, Gonzalo;Briceño-Garmendia, Cecilia;Schwartz, Jordan

We developed a technical efficiency analysis of container ports in Latin America and the Caribbean using an input-oriented stochastic frontier model. We employed a 10-year panel with data on…

Date issued: 12월 2013
Author(s): Castellani, Francesca;Lora, Eduardo;Funaro, Rita

This issue of IDEA is based on the recently released IDB book, Entrepreneurship in Latin America: A Step up the Social Ladder? It provides interesting insights into the limits of policies to promote…

Date issued: 12월 2013
Author(s): Castellani, Francesca;Lora, Eduardo;Funaro, Rita

Este número de IDEA está basado en el libro: Entrepreneurship in Latin America: a Step up the Social Ladder? (El espíritu emprendedor en América Latina: ¿un peldaño para ascender en la escala social…

Date issued: 12월 2013
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

Desde 1996, el Instituto para la Integración de América Latina y el Caribe del BID (BID-INTAL) ha publicado la edición anual del Informe MERCOSUR, con el objeto de documentar los aspectos más…

Date issued: 12월 2013
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desenvolvimento

Desde 1996, o Instituto para a Integração da América Latina e o Caribe do BID (BID-INTAL) tem publicado a edição anual do Informe MERCOSUL, a fim de documentar os aspectos mais importantes do…

Date issued: 12월 2013
Author(s): Fernández Monge, Ernesto

The Technical Note provides an overview of the trends in Belize's tariff structure over recent years, in particular its trade policy, commitments and obligations, the tax revenue implications,…

Date issued: 12월 2013
Author(s): Tique Andrade, Alfonso;Mendoza Castro, Héctor;Estol Peixoto, Rosina;Roca, María Eugenia

An important challenge faced by the Multilateral Development Banks (MDB) is to mitigate delays in the implementation of its operations. To this end, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)…

Date issued: 12월 2013
Author(s): Tique Andrade, Alfonso;Mendoza Castro, Héctor;Estol Peixoto, Rosina;Roca, María Eugenia

Mitigar las demoras en la implementación de los proyectos financiados por los Bancos Multilaterales de Desarrollo (BMD) es uno de los principales desafíos a los que frecuentemente se enfrentan estas…

Date issued: 12월 2013
Author(s): Office of Evaluation and Oversight

The importance of evaluation as a tool to promote learning and improve effectiveness has been extensively recognized in the Bank and reflected in the attention given to evaluability. As a consequence…

Date issued: 12월 2013
Author(s): Oficina de Evaluación y Supervisión

La importancia de la evaluación como herramienta para promover el aprendizaje y mejorar la eficacia se ha reconocido ampliamente en el Banco y reflejado en la atención conferida a la evaluabilidad.…

Date issued: 12월 2013 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Tsang, Kwok Ping;Amacher, Gregory S.;Kuuselaa, Olli-Pekka

Tradable permit markets for carbon dioxide (C02) emissions respond to short-run fluctuations in economic activity. To provide stability, both price and quantity interventions have been proposed.…

Date issued: 12월 2013 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Rodríguez-Álvarez, Juan Antonio;Monge-González, Ricardo

This paper estimates the impact of two productive development programs (PDPs) in Costa Rica: PROPYME and CR Provee. The first seeks to increase the capacity of small and medium-sized firms (SMEs) to…

Date issued: 12월 2013 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Castro, Lucio;Scartascini, Carlos

Tax evasion is a pervasive problem in many countries. In particular, some developing countries do not collect even half of what they would if taxpayers complied with the written letter of the law.…

Date issued: 12월 2013 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Scartascini, Carlos

The literature on taxes and public finance generally focuses on revenues, an easily observable and generally available variable, as the observable measure of tax policy. Still, revenues depend on…

Date issued: 12월 2013 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Hale, Galina;Candelaria, Christopher;Caballero, Julián;Borisov, Sergey

This paper shows that bank linkages have a positive effect on international trade. A global banking network (GBN) is constructed at the bank level, using individual syndicated loan data from Loan…

Date issued: 12월 2013
Author(s): Giordano, Paolo;Harris, Jeremy;Ramos Martínez, Alejandro

Latin American Trade Trend Estimates is an annual study published by the Integration and Trade Sector of the Inter-American Development Bank that analyses the region's trade performance based on…

Date issued: 12월 2013
Author(s): Giordano, Paolo;Harris, Jeremy;Ramos Martínez, Alejandro

Estimaciones de las Tendencias Comerciales de América Latina es un estudio anual publicado por el Sector de Integración y Comercio del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo en el cual se analiza el…

Date issued: 12월 2013 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Osorio Rivas, Rene;Brito, Steve;Corbacho, Ana

Birth registration is not only a fundamental human right, but also a requirement for obtaining additional documents, proving legal identity, and accessing a number of government benefits. Yet, little…

Date issued: 12월 2013
Author(s): Balza, Lenin;Jimenez Mori, Raul Alberto;Mercado Díaz, Jorge Enrique

This paper explores the relationship between private sector participation, institutional reform, and performance of the electricity sector in 18 Latin American countries over the last four decades.…

Date issued: 12월 2013
Author(s): Taddia, Alejandro Pablo;De la Peña Mendoza, Sissi Maribel;De la Peña, Elena

En las últimas décadas, la región de América Latina y el Caribe (ALC) se ha visto severamente afectada por el alto índice de mortalidad causado por las incidencias de tránsito. Para conocer la…