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Date issued: jan 2003 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Levy Yeyati, Eduardo;Panizza, Ugo;Stein, Ernesto H.

In this paper, we examine how the business and interest rate cycles in developed countries affect FDI to developing countries. After aggregating flows into three big source areas (the U.S., Europe…

Date issued: jan 2003 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Masci, Pietro;Utsumi, Makoto;Trigo Loubière, Jacques;Okubo, Yoshio;Sato, Takafumi;De Krivoy, Ruth;Fukao, Mitsuhiro;Martínez Peria, María Soledad;Schmukler, Sergio;Chicoma, José;Demaestri, Edgardo C.;Iannariello, María Pia;Barnhill Jr., Theodore M.;Papapanagiotou, Panagiotis;Rietti Souto, Marco;Posen, Adam S.;Zahler, Roberto

This book looks at the key issues and lessons that policymakers must consider in designing an adequate framework for dealing with financial crises. These include structural problems and their causes…

Date issued: jan 2003 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Goldstein Rossotto, Karen;Peterson, Robert J.;Masci, Pietro;Giorgio, Luis Alberto;García, Valeriano F.;West, Derek;Lee, Ruben;Agatiello, Osvaldo R.;Hook, Andrew;Dowers, Kenroy;Sotomayor, Ivan;Gomez-Acebo, Felipe;Corcoran, Andrea M.;Chandler-Crichlow, Catherine;Lubrano, Mike;Kuserk, Gregory J.;Wittich, Georg;Korcsmaros, Kinga;Aggarwal, Reena;Wuertz, Karen K.;Takacs, Hannes;Vives, Antonio;Karmel, Roberta S.;Hobson, Ronald B.;Tafara, Ethiopis;Del Valle, Clemente

This book analyzes the status of the markets in Latin America and identifies the technical, political, and financial challenges to building vibrant capital markets and increasing the efficiency…

Date issued: jan 2003 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Adhikari, Ramesh;Negroni, Mirka J.;Leino, Jessica;Rana, P. B.;Nguyen, Tam Robert;Rey de Marulanda, Nohra;Kremer, Michael;Rodríguez, Ennio;Arce M., Daniel G.;Sandler, Todd;Bronfman, Mario;Devlin, Robert;Rufín, Carlos;Sakai, Kazu;Kanbur, Ravi;Kahn, Matthew E.;Weiss, John;Wyplosz, Charles;Jessen, Anneke;Navarro, Juan Carlos;Tungwarara, Ozias;Hunt, Joseph Michael;Estevadeordal, Antoni;Martínez Nogueira, Roberto;Taccone, Juan José;Carnoy, Martin;Kendall, Tamil;Frantz, Brian;Wescott, Clay

This book is based on a conference entitled "Regional Public Goods and Regional Development Assistance", held in Washington, D.C. on November 6-7, 2002. It examines how the IDB and the ADB…

Date issued: jan 2003 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Wiesner Durán, Eduardo

The aim of this book is to provide policymakers in Latin America with the stylized facts of what works and what does not in decentralization policies and schemes, based on analysis of the recent…

Date issued: jan 2003
Author(s): Artana, Daniel;Naranjo, Fernando

This paper analyzes budgetary institutions, the tax system and public debt management in Jamaica. It explores the nature of budget institutions and design, beyond formal administrative or budgetary…

Date issued: jan 2003 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Aldaz-Carroll, Enrique;Birdsall, Nancy;Castañeda, Tarsicio;Brundtland, Gro Harlem;Sen, Amartya;Urrutia, Miguel;Myers, Robert G.;Morán, Ricardo

Escaping the Poverty Trap proposes early childhood investment policies that could decisively change the prospects for the next generation of the region's poor. Contributors include Nobel…

Date issued: jan 2003
Author(s): Ramírez, Juan Carlos;Ventura-Dias, Vivianne;Bárcena, Alicia;Lahera, Eugenio

In this book, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean draws upon the Latin American and Caribbean region's experience in order to formulate a historical and…

Date issued: jan 2003
Author(s): Castro, Claudio de Moura;Bernasconi, Andrés;Verdisco, Aimee;Levy, Daniel C.;Gomes, Candido;García, Norma M.;Regnier, Karla;Caruso, Luiz Antonio Cruz;Tigre, Paulo Bastos

This IDB book includes presentations from the international policy dialogue seminar entitled "New Options for Higher Education in Latin America: Lessons from the Community College Experience.…

Date issued: jan 2003
Author(s): Castro, Claudio de Moura;Bernasconi, Andrés;Verdisco, Aimee;Levy, Daniel C.;Gomes, Candido;García, Norma M.;Regnier, Karla;Caruso, Luiz Antonio Cruz;Tigre, Paulo Bastos

Los institutos técnicos superiores son instituciones educativas que ofrecen capacitación postsecundaria por medio de programas más cortos que los de las universidades. Este libro analiza las…