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Date issued: 7월 2012 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Kantis, Hugo;Federico, Juan;Trajtenberg, Luis A.

Using household surveys from Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, and El Salvador, this paper assesses the contribution of entrepreneurship to socioeconomic mobility and to understand the main variables…

Date issued: 7월 2012 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Ordeñana, Xavier;Arteaga, Elizabeth

This paper surveys Ecuadorian entrepreneurs to ascertain the differences between middle-class and upper-class entrepreneurs and identify the variables associated with the "success" of a…

Date issued: 7월 2012
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

El Informe de Sostenibilidad contiene información sobre las contribuciones del BID a la sostenibilidad durante el año 2011. También proporciona información sobre las tendencias fundamentales del…

Date issued: 7월 2012
Author(s): García Zaballos, Antonio

El Gobierno de Nicaragua ha identificado las Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación (TIC) como un pilar clave de su estrategia para mejorar la gestión pública y aumentar la competitividad; sin…

Date issued: 7월 2012
Author(s): Puerta, Juan Manuel;Atuesta, Laura;Costas-Perez, Elena;Corrales, Maria Elena;Sekkel, Julia

This evaluation assesses IDB's role in contributing to the coordinated solution of transnational challenges during the period 2000-2011. The evaluation found that the relevance and effectiveness…

Date issued: 7월 2012
Author(s): Puerta, Juan Manuel;Atuesta, Laura;Costas-Perez, Elena;Corrales, Maria Elena;Sekkel, Julia

El objetivo de la evaluación es valorar la función del BID con respecto a su contribución a la búsqueda de soluciones coordinadas ante desafíos transnacionales durante el período 2000-2011. La…

Date issued: 7월 2012 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Gandelman, Néstor;Robano, Virginia

This paper estimates the relationship between parents educational attainment and income and children's schooling in Uruguay between 1982 and 2010. This relationship is interpreted as a measure…

Date issued: 7월 2012
Author(s): Duarte, Jesús;Bos, María Soledad

Los aprendizajes escolares de los alumnos colombianos son altamente desiguales. Alumnos de mayor nivel socioeconómico y que asisten a escuelas urbanas y privadas obtienen mejores resultados en las…

Date issued: 7월 2012
Author(s): Smits, Stef;Tamayo, Shirley Paola;Ibarra, Vanessa;Rojas, Johnny;Benavidez, Alberto;Bey, Valérie

Existe un amplio reconocimiento en la literatura sobre la gran importancia que tiene el apoyo post-construcción a prestadores rurales (comunitarios) para incrementar la sostenibilidad de los…

Date issued: 7월 2012
Author(s): Marcel, Mario;Cabezas, Mabel;Piedrabuena, Bernardita

El presente resumen de políticas realiza una revisión sistemática de la metodología de estimación del Balance Estructural (BE) en Chile. Esta revisión no sólo recapitula y evalúa la justificación de…

Date issued: 7월 2012 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Bukstein, Daniel;Gandelman, Néstor

This paper follows an income-based, time-dependence approach to measure social mobility in Uruguay between 1982 and 2010. The paper finds that social mobility in Uruguay is considerable and reports…

Date issued: 7월 2012 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Vélez-Grajales, Viviana;Vélez-Grajales, Roberto

This paper uses the Mexican Social Mobility Survey 2006 to analyze intergenerational social mobility as it relates to entrepreneurial activity. First, the paper analyzes whether entrepreneurs…

Date issued: 7월 2012
Author(s): Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés

Este informe representa un primer acercamiento al problema en América Latina, donde no existen estudios comparativos sobre la viabilidad y el impacto económico de los PCT. El objetivo es analizar el…

Date issued: 7월 2012 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Ordeñana, Xavier;Villa, Ramón

Does entrepreneurship contribute to improving social mobility in Ecuador? This paper constructs a pseudo-panel to analyze the dynamic effect of entrepreneurship on Ecuadorian household incomes during…

Date issued: 7월 2012 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Ulloa, Alfie;Wagner, Rodrigo

Free Trade Agreements (FTA) attract significant interest, but after these treaties are signed not all exporters use them. We provide a model of heterogeneous utilization, also developing a novel…

Date issued: 7월 2012 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Schady, Norbert

Iron deficiency anemia is the most prevalent nutritional deficiency in the world, affecting more than 2 billion people in developing countries. We show that a modest cash transfer substantially…

Date issued: 7월 2012
Author(s): Armendáriz, Edna;De León, Wendy;López de Mesa, Paloma

Este documento aplica el marco analítico de diagnóstico de crecimiento para identificar las restricciones más activas que impiden un crecimiento económicomás acelerado en Guatemala y su convergencia…

Date issued: 7월 2012
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

The 2012 second 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: 7월 2012
Author(s): Alfonso, Mariana;Benavides, Martín

This note summarizes, as told from their personal experiences, the transition process of young people, mostly non-teachers, recruited by Enseña Perú to serve as teachers for a period of two years in…

Date issued: 7월 2012
Author(s): Alfonso, Mariana;Benavides, Martín

Esta nota resume el proceso de inserción a la docencia, contado a partir de sus propias experiencias, de jóvenes mayoritariamente no docentes reclutados por Enseña Perú para desempeñarse como…

Date issued: 7월 2012
Author(s): Bassi, Marina;Covacevich, Catalina

Elige Educar is a Chilean public-private initiative that seeks to improve the appreciation of teachers and encourage high-performing students to study education by means of media campaigns, talks to…

Date issued: 7월 2012
Author(s): Bassi, Marina;Covacevich, Catalina

Elige Educar es una iniciativa público-privada chilena que busca mejorar la valoración de los docentes e incentivar que estudiantes destacados estudien pedagogía, a partir de campanas mediáticas,…

Date issued: 6월 2012 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Huneeus, Cristóbal;Leiva, Silvia;Micco, Alejandro

Unemployment is a pressing problem in many countries in Latin America. Financial crises and increased globalization increase job turnover and therefore the risk of unemployment. To protect workers…

Date issued: 6월 2012
Author(s): Gazmuri Mujica, Jaime

En este trabajo se analizan las condiciones políticas y técnicas que han permitido u obstaculizado el desarrollo de oficinas técnicas de apoyo presupuestario en los parlamentos de seis países de la…

Date issued: 6월 2012
Author(s): Filc, Gabriel;Scartascini, Carlos

Dada la evidencia existente de que pueden existir beneficios tangibles en términos de sostenibilidad, eficiencia y efectividad del gasto público de una utilización más plena de los presupuestos por…