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Date issued: mrt 2014
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

One of the key strategic activities of disaster risk management at country level is the assessment of disaster risk. However, few methods allow analysis of the disaster risk for two reasons. One is…

Date issued: mrt 2014
Author(s): Correa Aste, Norma;Roopnaraine, Terry

Los Programas de Transferencia Condicionadas (PTC) han sido reconocidos como instrumentos exitosos para mejorar los resultados de salud, nutrición y educación de las poblaciones en situación de…

Date issued: mrt 2014
Author(s): Correa Aste, Norma;Roopnaraine, Terry

Los Programas de Transferencia Condicionadas (PTC) han sido reconocidos como instrumentos exitosos para mejorar los resultados de salud, nutrición y educación de las poblaciones en situación de…

Date issued: mrt 2014
Author(s): Mercer-Blackman, Valerie;Seerattan, Dave

This policy brief defines the challenges of conducting appropriate fiscal policy over the past 20 years in four Caribbean countries (The Bahamas, Barbados, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago) and…

Date issued: mrt 2014
Author(s): Planas, Maria Elena;García, Patricia J.;Bustelo, Monserrat;Cárcamo, Cesar;Ñopo, Hugo R.;Martinez, Sebastian;Merino, María Fernanda;Morrison, Andrew

This study aims to evaluate whether health providers in Peru might be contributing to ethnic health disparities in the provision of family planning services, by comparing providers' adherence to…

Date issued: mrt 2014
Author(s): Queiroz, Cesar;Astesiano, Gastón;Serebrisky, Tomás

This paper reviews the current status of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) intervention on PPP in Brazil, including a stakeholders' survey on the performance of the Brazilian PPP program…

Date issued: mrt 2014
Author(s): Támola, Alejandro

This work summarizes the results from a series of papers prepared within the framework of the project "Credit, Formalization, and Firm Growth." Those papers were prepared to help inform the…

Date issued: mrt 2014
Author(s): Thomas, Chrystol

In this policy brief, we examine the current tourism product in the CARICOM member states with a particular focus on the economies that rely most on the industry. The analysis shows that the tourism…

Date issued: mrt 2014
Author(s): Lendle, Andreas;Olarreaga, Marcelo

Technology made available by online markets has signifcantly reducedthe cost of entry into international markets for small and medium sized
firms, who can now reach far away consumers and…

Date issued: mrt 2014
Author(s): Vena, Anne

During 2013 the IDB Cultural Center raised its international profile by dramatically increasing strategic partnerships and advancing the cultural and creative industries agenda.Cultural Development…