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Date issued:
Dec 2011
Esta evaluación examina un Pilar de la Estrategia de Conocimiento y Aprendizaje (KNL) del BID: Actividades de Capacitación para el Personal de Operaciones. La evaluación comprueba que KNL ha avanzado…
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Dec 2011
La dimensión del problema de vulnerabilidad del Perú ante desastres y los efectos negativos del cambio climático es significativa. Según diversos estudios recientes, el país está identificado como…
Date issued:
Dec 2011
El presente trabajo presenta un enfoque metodológico que permite medir a nivel de planta y de sectores la informalidad y la productividad en forma conjunta de manera tal de poder entender mejor y…
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Dec 2011
The IAG presented its Final Report to the Committee of the Whole and to the Management in February 2011. The report concluded that the environmental and social safeguards provided for in the…
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Dec 2011
The IDB undertakes multiple activities in support of urban heritage preservation, including the provision of investment loans and reimbursable and nonreimbursable technical cooperation. The IDB also…
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Dec 2011
En febrero de 2011, el GAI presentó a la Comisión General y la Administración su Informe Final, en el que se llegó a la conclusión de que las salvaguardias ambientales y sociales previstas en la…
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Dec 2011
Este documento apresenta uma contribuição para o desenvolvimento de análises de programas de desenvolvimento produtivo (PDP). A proposta metodológica do Mapeamento e Índice de Desempenho…
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Dec 2011
This work analyzes housing finance in Trinidad and Tobago during the last 20 years. The period covered is influenced by an economic bonanza led by the energy sector. Housing prices in this period…
Date issued:
Dec 2011
Presentación acerca de la División de Mercados de Capitales y Entidades Financieras (CMF), las cual depende de la Vicepresidencia de Sectores del BID. Da a conocer su misión, líneas de acción, la…
Date issued:
Dec 2011
This presentation was performed for the Regional Policy Dialog meeting in Belize City, on December 5th, 2011. It provides facts and figures related to the state of the service sector in the Caribbean…
Date issued:
Dec 2011
Las mujeres latinoamericanas que son madres adolescentes tienen entre 1,8 y 2,8 años menos de educación. Es común pensar en el embarazo como el motivo que precipita la deserción escolar.
Date issued:
Dec 2011
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Por diversas razones y canales de transmisión, el stock y la calidad de la infraestructura de un país es un indicador fundamental de su nivel de desarrollo y del bienestar general que ofrece a sus…
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Dec 2011
Teen mothers in Latin America complete 1.8 to 2.8 fewer years of education than Latin American women who delay bearing children. Pregnancy is often believed to be the reason why girls drop out of…
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Dec 2011
The employment impact of innovation in the heterogeneous universe of services was studied using data from the 2004-2009 Uruguayan service innovation surveys. The empirical evidence shows that the…
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Dec 2011
This paper presents the evaluation of the Enterprise Restructuring Support Program in Argentina. The aim of the program was to increase the competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises by…
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Dec 2011
Specialized financial institutions (SFIs) have a clear interest in tapping the small business lending market, but frequently lack the know-how for doing so in a sustainable manner. This guide…
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Dec 2011
SMEs are positioning themselves as a strategic branch of banking operations in the region, while banks are increasingly pushing for more active policies when it comes to the financing of SMEs. This…
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Dec 2011
High-quality impact evaluations, including randomized experiments, are increasingly popular, but cannot always inform resource allocation decisions unless the costs of interventions are considered…
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Dec 2011
Impact Investing is a relatively new phenomenon, gaining attention within the last few years. While the multilateral development banks have been investing for many years with the expectation of a…
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Dec 2011
This technical note analyzes the evolution of Latin American and Caribbean systems in three stages: early development of basic services (Stage One) and advancing coverage, efficiency and services (…
Date issued:
Dec 2011
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This paper discusses the evolution of housing conditions in urban areas of Latin America and the Caribbean from 1995 to 2006 based on data from household surveys done in 18 countries that comprise 95…
Date issued:
Dec 2011
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The main contribution of this paper with respect to previous work is the use of data on subjective perceptions to identify the Latin American middle classes. This paper provides a set of comparisons…
Date issued:
Dec 2011
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This paper attempts to evaluate the effectiveness of Bolivia's labor market institutions, particularly the Plan Nacional de Empleo de Emergencia (PLANE). It is found that unemployment as…
Date issued:
Dec 2011
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This paper takes advantage of several reforms that provide time and cross sectional variation to identify the effects of unemployment insurance and severance payments on the duration of unemployment…
Date issued:
Dec 2011
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This paper considers a conditional cash transfer program targeting poor households in small rural villages and studies the effects of the geographic proximity between villages on individual…