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Date issued: 10월 2013 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Miller, Sebastián J.;Bastos, Paulo

The increased occurrence of extreme weather conditions leading to drought is a key development challenge. This paper studies how these extreme events interact with the political process at the local…

Date issued: 10월 2013
Author(s): Stone, Leslie F.;Fryer, Michelle;Huppi, Monika;Quijano, Ursula;Noboa-Hidalgo, Grace;Sadeghi, Patricia;Arbeláez, Juliana;Raupp, Magda;Székely, Miguel;Cruz Fano, Alejandro

This evaluation seeks to determine the extent to which the Bank supported equitable access to secondary education, improvements in secondary education quality, and reforms of education institutions…

Date issued: 10월 2013
Author(s): Stone, Leslie F.;Fryer, Michelle;Huppi, Monika;Quijano, Ursula;Noboa-Hidalgo, Grace;Sadeghi, Patricia;Arbeláez, Juliana;Raupp, Magda;Székely, Miguel;Cruz Fano, Alejandro

Esta evaluación tiene por objeto determinar el grado en que el Banco ha apoyado el acceso equitativo a la educación secundaria, las mejoras de calidad de la educación secundaria y las reformas de las…

Date issued: 10월 2013 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Bosch, Mariano;Melguizo, Ángel;Pagés, Carmen

The Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region has reduced its inequality and poverty, and is looking towards the future with greater optimism than in the past. As the region grows, new problems appear…

Date issued: 10월 2013 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Bosch, Mariano;Melguizo, Ángel;Pagés, Carmen

América Latina y el Caribe (ALC) ha reducido su desigualdad y su pobreza, y enfrenta las próximas décadas con mayor optimismo que en el pasado. Conforme la región crece, aparecen nuevos problemas a…

Date issued: 10월 2013 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Bosch, Mariano;Melguizo, Ángel;Pagés, Carmen

América Latina e Caribe (ALC) reduziram sua desigualdade e sua pobreza e enfrentarão as próximas décadas com maior otimismo do que no passado. Conforme a região cresce, aparecem novos problemas que…

Date issued: 10월 2013 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Zúñiga, Jimena;Capello, Marcelo;Butler, Inés;Grión, Néstor

This paper seeks to identify the most promising fiscal strategy to boost long-term economic growth in Argentina and quantify its effects. To this end, the authors updated a growth-diagnostics study…

Date issued: 10월 2013 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Calderón, César;Fuentes, J. Rodrigo

The growth prospects of a nation are stymied by the burden of government debt. This study has two goals: first, it tests whether public debt hinders growth; and, second, it explores whether economic…

Date issued: 10월 2013
Author(s): Peirce, Jennifer;Veyrat-Pontet, Alexandre

In the face of rising crime rates and increasingly complex transnational and local criminal dynamics, Belize's limited institutional resources are overstretched. Youth violence and gangs are of…

Date issued: 10월 2013
Author(s): Evenett, Simon J.

The resort to discrimination in the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region against foreign commercial interests is documented in this paper and compared to aggregate statistics for worldwide…

Date issued: 10월 2013
Author(s): Izquierdo, Alejandro;Loo-Kung, Rudy;Navajas, Fernando

América Central vive un momento particular de altos déficits fiscales y bajísimos costos de financiamiento externo dada la abundante liquidez internacional. La bonanza financiera ha dado un respiro,…

Date issued: 10월 2013
Author(s): Klinger, Bailey;Khwaja, Asim;LaMonte, Joseph

Access to finance remains a challenge for some micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in Peru, particularly informal enterprises with no borrowing history in the formal financial system.…

Date issued: 10월 2013
Author(s): Giordano, Paolo;Harris, Jeremy;Ramos Martínez, Alejandro;Ramos, Barbara

During the last decade the patterns of global growth have shifted, with the developing South expanding at a faster pace than the developed North. For countries in Latin American and the Caribbean (…

Date issued: 10월 2013 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Sanginés, Mario;Prats Cabrera, Joan Oriol;Pimenta, Carlos;García, Gustavo Antonio;Martínez Guzman, Juan Pablo;Marcel, Mario;Farias, Pedro;Crespi, Gustavo;Chrisney, Martin D.;Corbacho, Ana

The Fiscal Institutions of Tomorrow, the first publication in the series Institutions for People, addresses issues of public management that are key to economic development in Latin America and the…

Date issued: 10월 2013 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Piedrabuena, Bernardita

La creciente concentración y las altas tasas de rentabilidad que ha experimentado la industria bancaria chilena en las últimas décadas han dado lugar a un intenso debate acerca de la intensidad de la…

Date issued: 10월 2013
Author(s): Martin, Xavier

This note is the second of a series titled Inclusive Commitment Savings in Latin America and the Caribbean, which consolidates the results and findings of a research effort led by consultant Xavier…

Date issued: 10월 2013
Author(s): Martin, Xavier

Esta nota es la segunda de una serie titulada, Ahorro Programado Inclusivo en América Latina y el Caribe, que consolida los resultados y hallazgos de un trabajo de investigación encabezado por el…

Date issued: 10월 2013 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Cortazar, Gonzalo;Beuermann, Diether;Bernales, Alejandro

Thinly traded securities exist in both emerging and well developed markets. However, plausible estimations of market risk measures for portfolios with infrequently traded securities have not been…

Date issued: 10월 2013 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Pires, Jose Claudio Linhares;Cravo, Tulio;Lodato, Simon;Piza, Caio

Industrial clusters, which are commonly targeted to receive financial support allocated to locally based development projects, are seen as an effective industrial policy tool for improving…

Date issued: 10월 2013
Author(s): Baxter, Sasha;Nugent, Stevonne;Dukharan, Marla;Melgarejo, Karl Alexander;Mercer-Blackman, Valerie;Ruprah, Inder J.;Salazni, Mariana;Kamau, Musheer O.;Schmid, Juan Pedro;Clarke, Dillon;Thomas, Chrystol;O'Brien, Cherran

The Caribbean Region Quarterly Bulletin discusses recent economic developments and analyzes the topic of energy for the 6 IDB-member Caribbean countries, as well as the Organization of Eastern…

Date issued: 10월 2013
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

The 2013 third quarter edition of the Quarterly Business Review (QBR) provides management with a status of the Bank's performance. The QBR reports on outputs, lending program priorities and…

Date issued: 10월 2013
Author(s): Houseal, Brian

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Environmental and Social Safeguards Unit (ESG) is currently exploring how best to strengthen Country Safeguard Systems (CSS) while maintaining Bank and…

Date issued: 10월 2013
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank;World Bank;Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

This policy discussion brief has been prepared jointly by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), World Bank, and United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) as…

Date issued: 10월 2013
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo;Banco Mundial;Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe

La presente nota de discusión de políticas es el resultado del esfuerzo conjunto del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID), del Banco Mundial (BM) y de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y…

Date issued: 10월 2013
Author(s): Brochard, Celine

En abril del 2011, la Dirección Nacional de Agua Potable y Saneamiento (DINEPA, por sus siglas en francés) de Haití firmó un contrato de Asistencia Técnica Operacional (ATO) por tres años con el…