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Date issued:
mei 2000
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Generative AI enabled
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:
mei 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:
mei 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:
mei 2000
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Generative AI enabled
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:
mei 2000
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Generative AI enabled
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:
mei 2000
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Generative AI enabled
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:
apr 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:
apr 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:
apr 2000
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Generative AI enabled
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:
apr 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…