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Aug 2001
This evaluation report (RE-241) is inserted within the overall context of the Environmental Management strategy activities in progress within the Bank. The assessment of five infrastructure projects…
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Aug 2001
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It is now widely recognized that we live in a knowledge-based economy; in fact, knowledge is the driving factor behind productivity growth. The share of knowledge-intensive sectors in the world…
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Aug 2001
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This survey of industrial policies in Latin American and the Caribbean makes two basic claims, namely: 1) that the late 1980s and the entire decade of the 1990s represented a transition from the…
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Aug 2001
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This paper discusses the economic performance of Latin America in the last decade, paying special attention to growth and the financial sector. In particular, it shows that external factors, such as…
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Aug 2001
This paper seeks to enlighten a complex and often polemical debate about public and private education. It argues that the distinction between private and public is less important than the rules of…
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Aug 2001
This paper has the following main objectives: to review the actual or potential impact of land titling and cadastre programs on indigenous populations; to recommend actions that would minimize risk…
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Aug 2001
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This paper discusses Suriname's efforts in regional integration initiatives, starting in the 1990s. In the first section, the authors identify some concrete initiatives undertaken by Suriname to…
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Aug 2001
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Los eventos registrados antes de la crisis financiera venezolana de 1994-95, ponen al descubierto la activa oposición que puede enfrentar la supervisión y regulación pública de las instituciones…
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Aug 2001
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Las fuerzas centrífugas de la globalización económica en los años noventa circularon paralelas con las centrípetas de la regionalización. Aunque aparentemente parecían dirigirse en direcciones…
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Aug 2001
Suriname gained autonomy from Holland in domestic affairs in 1955 and full political independence in 1975. "Self-sufficiency" -particularly in economic terms- became a strong motif in…
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Aug 2001
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INDES provides training programmes for public officials in Latin America and the Caribbean .Its current courses currently emphasize strategies for poverty reduction and the provision of social…
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Aug 2001
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El Instituto Interamericano para el Desarrollo Social (INDES) organiza programas de capacitación para funcionarios de gobierno en la América Latina y el Caribe. Estos programas enfatizan estrategias…
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Jul 2001
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This paper uses a new data set to study household responses to adverse income shocks in seven Latin American countries. The results show (i) that households respond to income shocks mainly by…
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Jul 2001
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La información aquí contenida y analizada fue recolectada a través de entrevistas a responsables y directivos de las instituciones y entidades nacionales que han participado en el diseño,…
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Jul 2001
Este trabajo explora el potencial que tiene la educación a distancia para ser incorporada por los educadores, como una estrategia de expansión para la educación secundaria. Diversos ministerios…
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Jul 2001
This paper explores the potential for educational planners to incorporate distance education into their strategies for the expansion of secondary education.
Date issued:
Jul 2001
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This paper will discuss the experience of two rural education models: Tutorial Learning System (TLS) and New School methodology for Post-Primary.
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Jul 2001
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This study report includes relevant information about some of the probable reasons why socially disadvantaged youths and adolescents in the region drop out of school. The specific case studied was…
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Jul 2001
Brenda F. Berrian, North American Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, author of Awakening Spaces: French Caribbean Popular Songs, Music and Culture (2000).
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Jul 2001
Branda F. Berrian, profesora estadounidense de la Universidad de Pittsburg y autora del libro Awakening Spaces: French Caribbean Popular Songs, Music and Culture (2000).
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Jul 2001
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This paper analyzes the reaction of teachers' and doctors' unions to a series of social sector reforms in the region, including administrative decentralization, provider payment mechanisms…
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Jul 2001
Pese a las manifestaciones gubernamentales en el sentido que el MERCOSUR continuará desempeñando en los próximos años un rol protagónico en la estrategia de inserción internacional de los países…
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Jul 2001
MERCOSUR has become less operational, despite government claims that it will continue to play a leading role in the international insertion strategies of its member countries for some years. The…
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Jul 2001
This paper briefly discusses some of the issues that must be grappled with when analyzing the impact that the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has had -and will have in the future- on the…
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Jul 2001
This paper proposes a conceptual framework for understanding and analyzing how business regulations affect small and microenterprises. In doing so, it also makes a case for why particular attention…