New Products, New Markets: Dragon Fruit in Ecuador
Jan 2022
Author(s): Barrera, Victor;Villacis, Alexis;Alwang, Jeffrey;Escudero, Luis;IDB Invest
Expanding incomes in Asian countries and changes in fresh-fruit value chains have created an important niche for producers of dragon fruit. Ecuadorean producers have responded and taken advantage of…
Primary Balance: Sustainability Analysis under Uncertainty
Oct 2020
Author(s): Lankester Campos, Valerie;Loaiza Marín, Kerry;Monge Badilla, Carlos
This paper analyzes the sustainability of Costa Rican sovereign debt within the intertemporal budget constraint framework, which is complemented with the estimation of the fiscal reaction function…
Fiscal Sustainability Assessment for Suriname 1978-2017: A Fiscal Reaction Function Approach
Oct 2020
Author(s): Mungroo, Albert;Tjon Kie Sim-Balker, Peggy
High and unsustainable public debt is an economic problem at the center of many emerging and developing economies. This paper investigates, for the period 1978-2017, how the Surinamese Government…
¿Y tú qué harías?: Aprendiendo de la ejecución de los proyectos de desarrollo
Apr 2018
Author(s): Llaguno, Duval;Briceño, Bertha;Morales, Olga;Bersano Calot, Lara;García, Carolina Inés
“¿Y tú qué harías?” es una nueva metodología para compartir aprendizajes surgidos de la experiencia de la ejecución de proyectos de desarrollo. Es una herramienta que combina la reflexión sobre casos…