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Date issued: nov 2014
Author(s): Crespo, Anna Risi Vianna;Puerta, Juan Manuel;Martin, Lucia

Desde que se creó el mecanismo, se han aprobado 22 proyectos por un valor total de US$500 millones y aproximadamente la mitad de los montos aprobados han sido desembolsados o cancelados. Por lo tanto…

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

This document describes the general methodology of the Index of Governance and Public Policy in Disaster Risk Management (iGOPP) and presents the main concepts that support both disaster risk…

Date issued: nov 2014
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

En este documento se describe la metodología general del Índice de Gobernabilidad y Políticas Públicas en Gestión del Riesgo de Desastres (iGOPP). Asimismo se presentan los principales conceptos que…

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

Innovation can come in different forms, from processes to using different materials, to taping into new sources of financing, all of these choices made hoping to achieve a different outcome. Whether…

Date issued: nov 2014
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

Hay distintas maneras de innovar: desde los procesos hasta la utilización de diferentes materiales o la búsqueda de nuevas fuentes de financiamiento. El común denominador en todos los casos es la…

Date issued: nov 2014
Author(s): Ortega, Luz María;Cerda, Gaston;Ramos-Romero, Joanna;Restrepo, Clara Inés

It is a publication developed by the International Youth Foundation (IYF), within the framework of the NEO initiative, that introduces a series of conceptual and practical tools related to planning…

Date issued: nov 2014
Author(s): Ortega, Luz María;Cerda, Gaston;Ramos-Romero, Joanna;Restrepo, Clara Inés

Es una publicación desarrollada por la International Youth Foundation (IYF), en el marco de la iniciativa NEO, en la que se presentan una serie de herramientas conceptuales y prácticas relacionadas…

Date issued: nov 2014
Author(s): Ortega, Luz María;Cerda, Gaston;Ramos-Romero, Joanna;Restrepo, Clara Inés

Trata-se de uma publicação desenvolvida pela International Youth Foundation (IYF) no âmbito da iniciativa NEO que apresenta uma série de ferramentas conceituais e práticas relacionadas ao…

Date issued: okt 2014 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Vieyra, Juan Cruz;Masson, Malaika;Walter, Martin;Quiroz, Juan Carlos;Manzano, Osmel;Ross, Michael;Lowe, Heather A.;Brathwaite, Rhea;Jarquín, María José;Kyle, Jordan;Greene, Tira;Regis, Mark;Arisi, Diego;González Espinosa, Ana Carolina;Ardanaz, Martín;Balza, Lenin;Espinasa, Ramón;Jimenez Mori, Raul Alberto;Valverde Martínez, Pablo

During the last decade, the Latin American and Caribbean region has experienced unprecedented natural resources abundance. This book highlights how transparency can help realize the benefits and…

Date issued: okt 2014 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Vieyra, Juan Cruz;Masson, Malaika;Walter, Martin;Quiroz, Juan Carlos;Manzano, Osmel;Ross, Michael;Lowe, Heather A.;Brathwaite, Rhea;Jarquín, María José;Kyle, Jordan;Greene, Tira;Regis, Mark;Arisi, Diego;González Espinosa, Ana Carolina;Ardanaz, Martín;Balza, Lenin;Espinasa, Ramón;Jimenez Mori, Raul Alberto;Valverde Martínez, Pablo

Durante la última década, la región de América Latina y el Caribe ha experimentado una abundancia sin precedentes por sus recursos naturales. Este libro pone de relieve cómo la transparencia puede…

Date issued: okt 2014 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Vieyra, Juan Cruz;Masson, Malaika;Walter, Martin;Quiroz, Juan Carlos;Manzano, Osmel;Ross, Michael;Lowe, Heather A.;Brathwaite, Rhea;Jarquín, María José;Kyle, Jordan;Greene, Tira;Regis, Mark;Arisi, Diego;González Espinosa, Ana Carolina;Ardanaz, Martín;Balza, Lenin;Espinasa, Ramón;Jimenez Mori, Raul Alberto;Valverde Martínez, Pablo

During the last decade, the Latin American and Caribbean region has experienced unprecedented natural resources abundance. This book highlights how transparency can help realize the benefits and…

Date issued: okt 2014 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Vieyra, Juan Cruz;Masson, Malaika;Walter, Martin;Quiroz, Juan Carlos;Manzano, Osmel;Ross, Michael;Lowe, Heather A.;Brathwaite, Rhea;Jarquín, María José;Kyle, Jordan;Greene, Tira;Regis, Mark;Arisi, Diego;González Espinosa, Ana Carolina;Ardanaz, Martín;Balza, Lenin;Espinasa, Ramón;Jimenez Mori, Raul Alberto;Valverde Martínez, Pablo

Durante la última década, la región de América Latina y el Caribe ha experimentado sin precedentes abundancia de recursos naturales. Este libro pone de relieve cómo la transparencia puede ayudar a…

Date issued: okt 2014
Author(s): Multilateral Investment Fund;Power Africa;United Kingdom. Department for International Development;Bloomberg New Energy Finance

Climatescope seeks to bring quantitative rigor to the basic question of what makes a country attractive for clean energy investment, development, and deployment.Climatescope ranks countries on their…

Date issued: okt 2014
Author(s): Fondo Multilateral de Inversiones;Power Africa;United Kingdom. Department for International Development;Bloomberg New Energy Finance

El Climascopio se propone aportar rigor cuantitativo a la pregunta básica de qué es lo que hace que un país sea atractivo para las inversiones, el desarrollo y el despliegue de energías limpias. El…

Date issued: okt 2014 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Blyde, Juan S.;Volpe Martincus, Christian;Molina, Danielken

El surgimiento de las cadenas globales de valor está permitiendo que las naciones que se vinculan a ellas se industrialicen a un ritmo mucho más acelerado que el que necesitarían desarrollando…

Date issued: okt 2014 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Blyde, Juan S.;Volpe Martincus, Christian;Molina, Danielken

O surgimento das cadeias globais de valor (CGVs) está permitindo que os países se industrializem muito mais rapidamente ao se inserirem em redes internacionais de produção em vez de construírem…

Date issued: okt 2014
Author(s): Alonso, Pablo;Pires, Jose Claudio Linhares;Azuara, Oliver;Soldano, Miguel;Tetreault, Alayna;Vellani, Saleema;Willoughby, Christopher

This Country Program Evaluation (CPE) with Honduras covers the period between January 2011 and April 2014 and is the fourth occasion on which the Office of Evaluation and Oversight (OVE) has…

Date issued: okt 2014
Author(s): Alonso, Pablo;Pires, Jose Claudio Linhares;Azuara, Oliver;Soldano, Miguel;Tetreault, Alayna;Vellani, Saleema;Willoughby, Christopher

Esta Evaluación del Programa de País (CPE) con Honduras cubre el período entre enero de 2011 y abril de 2014 y es la cuarta oportunidad en que la Oficina de Evaluación y Supervisión (OVE) evalúa el…

Date issued: okt 2014
Author(s): Arce, Fernando;Powell, Andrew

The August 2014 surveys of expectations conducted by Central Banks with inflation targeting regimes indicate that the weighted average growth expectations for 2014 for the eight countries covered…

Date issued: okt 2014
Author(s): Beuermann, Diether;Ruprah, Inder J.;Sierra, Ricardo

This policy brief answers three main questions for the Jamaican economy: (a) Do remittances act as a safety net during negative health shocks? (b) Are remittances subject to moral hazard by receivers…

Date issued: okt 2014
Author(s): Pires, Jose Claudio Linhares;Lodato, Simon;Cravo, Tulio;Vellani, Saleema

The Office of Evaluation and Oversight (OVE) of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB, or the Bank) conducted an impact evaluation to assess the effectiveness of the main types of programs through…

Date issued: okt 2014
Author(s): Pires, Jose Claudio Linhares;Lodato, Simon;Cravo, Tulio;Vellani, Saleema

La Oficina de Evaluación y Supervisión (OVE) del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID o el Banco) realizó una evaluación de impacto para examinar la eficacia de los principales tipos de programas…

Date issued: okt 2014
Author(s): Pires, Jose Claudio Linhares;Lodato, Simon;Cravo, Tulio;Vellani, Saleema

O Escritório de Avaliação e Supervisão (OVE) do Banco Interamericano de Desenvolvimento (BID, ou o Banco) conduziu uma avaliação de impacto para analisar a efetividade dos principais tipos de…

Date issued: okt 2014
Author(s): Alessandro, Martín;Lafuente, Mariano;Santiso, Carlos

Center of Government institutions, which work directly with the Head of the Executive Branch at any level of government, are essential to provide direction and coherence to the government and to…

Date issued: okt 2014
Author(s): Alessandro, Martín;Lafuente, Mariano;Santiso, Carlos

Las instituciones de Centro de Gobierno, que trabajan directamente con el Jefe del Poder Ejecutivo en cualquier nivel de gobierno, son fundamentales para brindar dirección y coherencia al gobierno, y…

Date issued: okt 2014
Author(s): Giordano, Paolo;Ramos Martínez, Alejandro

This report provides a detailed analysis of the principal characteristics of LAC's exports during the post-crisis period. The weak performance of the export sector stems from a combination of…

Date issued: okt 2014
Author(s): Giordano, Paolo;Ramos Martínez, Alejandro

Este documento provee un análisis detallado de las principales características de las exportaciones de bienes de ALC en la coyuntura post-crisis. El débil desempeño del sector exportador es resultado…

Date issued: okt 2014
Author(s): Giordano, Paolo;Ramos Martínez, Alejandro

These profiles complement the analysis presented in the Trade and Integration Monitor 2014: Facing Headwinds: Policies to Support a Trade Recovery in the Post-Crisis Era. The country profiles present…

Date issued: okt 2014
Author(s): Giordano, Paolo;Ramos Martínez, Alejandro

Los siguientes perfiles complementan el análisis presentado en el Monitor de Comercio e Integración 2014: Vientos adversos: Políticas para relanzar el comercio en la post-crisis. Los perfiles de país…

Date issued: okt 2014
Author(s): Giordano, Paolo;Ramos Martínez, Alejandro

These profiles complement the analysis presented in the Trade and Integration Monitor 2014: Facing Headwinds: Policies to Support a Trade Recovery in the Post-Crisis Era. Agreement Profiles…

Date issued: okt 2014
Author(s): Giordano, Paolo;Ramos Martínez, Alejandro

Los siguientes perfiles complementan el análisis presentado en el Monitor de Comercio e Integración 2014: Vientos adversos: Políticas para relanzar el comercio en la post-crisis. Los perfiles de…

Date issued: okt 2014
Author(s): Moreda, Fekadu;Miralles-Wilhelm, Fernando;Muñoz Castillo, Raúl;Coli Valdes Daussa, Pedro

This is the second case study of the "Hydro-BID Applications" series and demonstrates the capabilities of the water resources modeling tool “Hydro-BID”, used to prepare a hydrologic model…

Date issued: okt 2014 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Molina, Ezequiel

This article makes three contributions to the literature. First, it provides newevidence of the impact of community monitoring interventions using a unique
dataset from the Citizen Visible…

Date issued: okt 2014 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Miller, Sebastián J.;Caruso, Germán

This study estimates the effects of the 1970 Ancash earthquake on human capital accumulation on the affected and subsequent generation, 37 years after the shock, using the Peruvian censuses of 1993…

Date issued: okt 2014
Author(s): Castro, Lucio;Scartascini, Carlos

There is growing evidence that individual responses to public policies are, to a large extent, mediated by the way the policies are framed, by people's cognitive and computational capabilities,…

Date issued: okt 2014
Author(s): Castro, Lucio;Scartascini, Carlos

Hay creciente evidencia de que las respuestas individuales a las políticas públicas están, en gran medida, mediatizadas por la manera en que se formulan las políticas, por las capacidades cognitivas…

Date issued: okt 2014
Author(s): Wilson, Shellyanne;Sagewan-Alli, Indera;Calatayud, Agustina

CARIFORUM countries have identified a number of priority industries and niche sectors that span manufacturing, agriculture, tourism, and other service sectors, which are viewed as having strong…

Date issued: okt 2014
Author(s): Dammert, Lucia;Gutiérrez M., Maria Isabel;Martin, Gerard;Paternain, Rafael;Peña, Norma

La creación de observatorios del crimen y la violencia en América Latina y el Caribe, que se inició a principios de los años noventa, se ha acelerado en los últimos años. Existe, sin embargo, más…

Date issued: okt 2014
Author(s): Bebczuk, Ricardo N.;Demaestri, Edgardo C.

El presente documento se enmarca en una iniciativa de investigación para apoyar el desarrollo del financiamiento a la vivienda en América Latina, que el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID)…

Date issued: okt 2014
Author(s): Schwartz, Liora;Guaipatín, Carlos

El presente estudio es una iniciativa de la División de Competitividad e Innovación (CTI) del BID para entender cómo está funcionando el Sistema Nacional de Innovación de Ecuador y cuáles son sus…

Date issued: okt 2014
Author(s): Sánchez, Mario;Biehl, María Loreto;Sabra, Mariel;Fazio, Maria Victoria;Moreno, María Verónica;Arroyo, Daniel;Posada, Carolina

Los grupos consultivos (ConSOC) son la plataforma del BID para promover el intercambio de información, fortalecer el diálogo y la consulta recurrente con organizaciones de la sociedad civil (OSC) en…

Date issued: okt 2014
Author(s): Benedetti, Fiorella;Farach, Marcos;Ibarrarán, Pablo;Villa, Juan Miguel

Con el propósito de mejorar la eficiencia distributiva del gasto social en Honduras dentro de un contexto de fuertes restricciones fiscales, es indispensable priorizar a los hogares más pobres como…

Date issued: okt 2014
Author(s): Flores Lima, Jose Gregorio Roberto;González-Velosa, Carolina;Rosas-Shady, David

En la última década, en América Latina y el Caribe (ALC) se lograron grandes avances económicos y sociales. Muchos países de la región experimentaron altas tasas de crecimiento a la vez que lograron…

Date issued: okt 2014
Author(s): Pilla, Ernani

This report was produced by The Wildlife Conservation Society and Forest Trends. This report begins by providing a short overview of biodiversity offset principles and their development in the…

Date issued: okt 2014
Author(s): Schneider, Robert;Diewald, Christoph;Molina Garsón, Adriana Lizette

In LAC the principal sources of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions are land use change and agricultural activities, particularly cattle ranching (methane emissions) on converted land and natural…

Date issued: okt 2014
Author(s): Corrales, Maria Elena;Puerta, Juan Manuel;Medieta, María Paula;Morales, Carlos;Suarez, David

In the global context, LAC is one of the regions known to produce the lowest levels of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions from the transformation and use of energy. Levels of GHG in LAC represent 5% of…

Date issued: okt 2014
Author(s): Ashwill, Maximillian;Alvarez Prado, Lourdes

The frequency of natural disasters, such as floods, droughts, hurricanes, and earthquakes, is increasing in LAC as in the rest of the world. During the 1960s and 1970s, fewer than 20 disasters…

Date issued: okt 2014
Author(s): Scholl, Lynn;Celse L'Hoste, Margareth;Quintanilla, Oscar;Linares, Ana María

Between 2000 and 2009, emissions from transport in the Region increased by 12% on a per capita basis, while increasing less than 2% globally. Although per capita emissions in LAC are still low…

Date issued: okt 2014
Author(s): Marto, Ricardo;Alvarez, Lourdes;Suarez, David

Despite the many differences among Caribbean nations, Climate Change (CC) poses a serious threat to them all. Average temperatures in the Region have increased by 0.1° to 0.2°C per decade over the…

Date issued: okt 2014
Author(s): Pittaluga, Lucía

Desde hace algunos años, el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID) ha estado apoyando a Programas de Apoyo a los Clusters, en su mayoría en el Cono Sur. La presente consultoría analizó qué…