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jan 2010
En 1993, un desastre natural causó un enorme deslizamiento de tierra y grandes inundaciones que devastaron la región del pueblo de Paute en el sur de Ecuador, causando pérdida de vidas humanas y…
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jan 2010
In rural Mexico, small farmers tend to grow staple crops like beans and corn, and sell them only in their immediate communities. With little accessto national supply chains or the working capital…
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jan 2010
En las zonas rurales de México, los pequeños agricultores tienden a cultivar productos básicos, como frijoles y maíz, y a venderlos solamente en sus comunidades inmediatas. Dado el difícil acceso a…
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jan 2010
The advent of the knowledge society has highlighted the growing importance of innovation and intellectual assets as sources of competitiveness and long-term economic growth. This book examines human…
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jan 2010
El advenimiento de la sociedad del conocimiento ha puesto de relieve la creciente importancia de la innovación y de los recursos intelectuales como fuentes de competitividad y de crecimiento…
Date issued:
jan 2010
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La Gestión para Resultados (GpR) es una estrategia de gestión pública que conlleva tomar decisiones sobre la base de información confiable acerca de los efectos que la acción gubernamental tiene en…
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jan 2010
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Results-based management (RBM) is a public management strategy that involves decision making based on reliable information regarding the effects of governmental actions on society. It has been…
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jan 2010
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Over the past 30 years, democratic freedoms and competitive electoral processes have taken hold as never before in Latin America. How Democracy Works takes a detailed look, from an institutional…
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jan 2010
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This volume offers substantive clarification of the proper roles for public agricultural research and development (R&D) throughout Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and introduces an…
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jan 2010
The growth of economic migrants seeking better lives for themselves and their families has increased four times faster than the worlds¿ population. The information contained in this study presents…
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jan 2010
The Appleseed Foundation helps promote Center work, identifies and secures funding for projects, serves as a clearinghouse, and provides training and technical assistance to link Centers and allow…
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jan 2010
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Entrepreneurship contributes to a vibrant private sector and can stimulate broader economic growth. Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have experienced an important growth of…
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jan 2010
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Despite progress in communication technologies, lack of information still severely handicaps companies seeking to operate in international markets. Furthermore, the investments that these companies…
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jan 2010
The volume Assessing the Effectiveness of Agricultural Interventions is the Special Topic for the Development Effectiveness Overview 2008-2009. The Special Topic provides an in-depth analysis of what…
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jan 2010
Development Effectiveness Overview 2008-2009 is a tool by which the IDB accounts for the effectiveness of its work. It reports on the progress made in the Development Effectiveness agenda of the Bank.
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jan 2010
This book presents a set of studies on contemporary discrimination in Latin America that takes advantage of these new tools by focusing on social interactions that range from cooperation, group…
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jan 2010
A growing number of cities around the world have established systems for monitoring the quality of urban life. Many of those systems combine objective information with subjective opinions and cover a…
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jan 2010
Early childhood development outcomes play an important role throughout a person's life, affecting one's income-earning capacity and productivity, longevity, health, and cognitive ability.…
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jan 2010
This book has three main objectives: (i) discusses the main implications for the functioning of mandatory defined contribution pensions of consumers' inability to make rational choices; (ii)…
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dec 2009
El período que cubre el Informe MERCOSUR N° 14 (julio de 2008 - junio de 2009) estuvo marcado por la crisis internacional. La fase inflacionaria de dicha crisis -que se desarrolló entre agosto de…
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dec 2009
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Natural disasters are by no means new, yet the evolving understanding of their relevance to economic development and growth is still in its infancy. This paper summarizes the state of the economic…
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dec 2009
The goal of this market research was to determine the feasibility of promoting the use of remittances as a means to purchase clean energy. The project was designed to test the attractiveness to…
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dec 2009
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This paper examines the impact of trade policy on production specialization patterns in ten Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay and…
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dec 2009
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According to the economic theory and recent empirical evidence, improved market access through trade arrangements is likely to favor export diversification. In this paper, we assess whether this has…
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dec 2009
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dec 2009
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En este artículo se presenta una visión comparada de la formación de economistas en cinco países de América Latina. Para tal fin, se analizan la currícula, los libros de texto comúnmente utilizados,…
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dec 2009
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We investigate whether greater microeconomic flexibility facilitates the process of creative destruction in the context of new trade models with heterogeneous firms (Bernard et al., 2003 and Melitz,…
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dec 2009
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El presente documento es el manual instructivo del Sistema de Gestión de la Cadena de Suministro para los usuarios de la plataforma Proart Puno de la ONG Asociación para el Desarrollo del Entorno,…
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dec 2009
El estudio caracteriza el funcionamiento del mercado de crédito para la pequeña empresa en cinco países de América Latina y el Caribe: Ecuador y Perú (América del Sur), Guatemala (Centroamérica),…
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dec 2009
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Migration has recently taken an important place in the agenda of many governments around the world. But the phenomenon of international mobility of individuals is not new. Following Massey [2003],…
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dec 2009
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This paper uses new data on fiscal transparency for a cross-section of countries; these data possess several advantages. First, the data are based on in-depth reports using a standardized methodology…
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dec 2009
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Tax expenditures are generally defined as those government expenditures carried out through tax legislation, regulations, and practices that reduce or defer taxes for some taxpayers. There is a…
Date issued:
dec 2009
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Los gastos tributarios son generalmente definidos como aquellos gastos del gobierno realizados por medio de disposiciones de la legislación tributaria, reglamentos y práctica que reducen o postergan…
Date issued:
dec 2009
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Presents information about several mechanisms by which the barriers imposed by rules of origin may be reduced through effective trade facilitation efforts. Also
discussed are the functional…
discussed are the functional…
Date issued:
dec 2009
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This paper explores the relationship between preferential and multilateral trade liberalization at the sectoral level using a unique dataset that includes data on most favored nation (MFN) and…
Date issued:
dec 2009
El Tratado de Libre Comercio entre República Dominicana, Centroamérica y Estados Unidos (en adelante, CAFTA-RD) entró en vigencia para Costa Rica el 1 de enero del 2009, catorce meses después de su…
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dec 2009
Este informe presenta un diagnóstico y señala los principales desafíos que la República Dominicana enfrenta en su proceso de integración en la economía global, con el propósito de proponer algunas…
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dec 2009
Historically, services were considered non-tradable and offshoring was confined to the manufacturing sector. However, the evolution and diffusion of information and communication technologies has…
Date issued:
dec 2009
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This paper examines this agenda and argues that if Brazil really wants to fully enjoy the growth and welfare benefits of trade, it needs to further lower and rationalize its structure of protection;…
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dec 2009
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During the past few decades, the landscape of the world economy has changed. New trade patterns reflect the globalization of the supply chain and intra-industry trade, and increasing flows between…
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dec 2009
Da a conocer El impacto del programa PARSalud sobre la calidad de la atención de la salud materna en la población indígena. Menciona el impacto del programa en cuanto a calidad de la atención a las…
Date issued:
dec 2009
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En el presente trabajo se utiliza un modelo de Nueva Geografía Económica (NGE) para simular los efectos sobre la localización industrial en Uruguay de la aplicación de distintas alternativas de…
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dec 2009
Analiza las principales características, reformas recientes y desafíos del sistema nacional de innovación uruguayo. Este documento forma parte de un conjunto de estudios realizados por el Banco…
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dec 2009
This report focuses on the determinants of the first type of research output: new knowledge. There are no direct measures of this type of research output, but several proxies have been typically used…
Date issued:
dec 2009
Uruguay posee uno de los sistemas de protección social más antiguos y extendidos de Latinoamérica. Tiene más de un siglo de antigüedad y absorbe aproximadamente el 21% del Producto Bruto interno (PBI…
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dec 2009
El presente estudio tiene por objetivo analizar las finanzas públicas municipales y la capacidad de gestión fiscal de los gobiernos departamentales en Uruguay para proporcionar un diagnóstico…
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dec 2009
El Desarrollo Urbano debe pasar a ser una condición necesaria para la competitividad y la mejora de la calidad de vida de un país. La competitividad no sólo depende de factores económicos a nivel…
Date issued:
dec 2009
La presente nota tiene como objetivo contribuir a un debate relativamente reciente en Panamá, entorno a lo que debería ser un sistema de protección social (SPS) y cuáles son los retos que el país…
Date issued:
dec 2009
En este documento se presentan los principales aspectos que fundamentan el Programa de Concesiones de Chile en los diferentes sectores de infraestructura, así como los principales aspectos…