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Date issued: Feb 2013
Author(s): Soriano, Alejandro;Schiavo-Campo, Salvatore;Puerta, Juan Manuel;Pires, Jose Claudio Linhares;Kavalsky, Basil;Elías, Carlos;Conroy, Hector;Alonso, Pablo;Vera-Cossio, Diego A.;Sembler, Jose Ignacio;Huppi, Monika;Beuermann, Diether

En esta evaluación se analiza en qué medida la forma en que actualmente trabaja el BID satisface las necesidades y expectativas de los países con niveles de ingreso relativamente más altos y un…

Date issued: Feb 2013
Author(s): Soares, Yuri;Gonzalez Diez, Verónica M.

This Final Report to Donors presents the findings of the Second Independent Evaluation of the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) conducted by the Office of Evaluation and Oversight (OVE) of the Inter…

Date issued: Feb 2013
Author(s): Soares, Yuri;Gonzalez Diez, Verónica M.

Este informe final a los donantes presenta los hallazgos de la segunda evaluación independiente sobre el Fondo Multilateral de Inversiones (FOMIN) realizada por la Oficina de Evaluación y Supervisión…

Date issued: Feb 2013
Author(s): Bezerra, Maria do Carmo

O tema "Requalificação de Áreas Urbanas" se apresenta como um tema emergente na carteira Procidades em execução até 2011, contando com apenas 3.5% dos investimentos. Apesar de sua…

Date issued: Feb 2013
Author(s): Bezerra, Maria do Carmo

O tema objeto de estudo, Preservação Ambiental e Implantação de Parques Urbanos se apresenta como demanda reduzida da carteira Procidades em execução até 2011, contando com 0,5% dos investimentos. A…

Date issued: Feb 2013
Author(s): Bezerra, Maria do Carmo

O tema objeto de estudo, Melhoramento de Bairros se apresenta como a maior demanda na carteira Procidades, em execução até 2011, respondendo por 43% do total dos investimentos. Importante esclarecer…

Date issued: Feb 2013 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Espino, Emilio;Sánchez, Juan M.

Providing unemployment insurance is particularly problematic in countries with high informality because workers can claim unemployment benefits and work in the informal sector at the same time. This…

Date issued: Feb 2013
Author(s): Wolf, Nick;Sanchez, Vanesa

Este documento describe la tercera edición de una herramienta interactiva e índice de clasifi cación que evalúa la capacidad de los países de América Latina y el Caribe para llevar a cabo…

Date issued: Feb 2013 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Cesa-Bianchi, Ambrogio;Rebucci, Alessandro

This paper develops a model featuring both a macroeconomic and a financial stability objective that speaks to the interaction between monetary and macroprudential policies. First, we find that…

Date issued: Feb 2013
Author(s): Ter-Minassian, Teresa

This paper focuses on options for reforming the Brazilian Revenue-Sharing scheme for the States, the so-called Fundo de Participação dos Estados or FPE, which constitutes one of the main…

Date issued: Feb 2013 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Guerrero Compeán, Roberto

Using data for all 2,454 municipalities of Mexico for the period 1980-2010, this paper analyzes the relationship between exposure to extreme temperatures and precipitation and death, as well as the…

Date issued: Feb 2013
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

Analiza el panorama macroeconómico y los flujos comerciales de los países del Mercado Común del Sur (MERCOSUR), además de los principales aspectos del proceso de integración del bloque, tanto en su…

Date issued: Feb 2013
Author(s): Rodríguez, Lorena;Netto, Maria;Serra, Lucila

El cambio climático no sólo está impactando severa e irreversiblemente gran parte de los ecosistemas globales sino que también impone cuantiosos costos económicos y sociales, especialmente sobre las…

Date issued: Feb 2013
Author(s): Rodrigues Afonso, José Roberto;Morais Soares, Julia;Castro, Kleber Pacheco de

Este trabalho faz um diagnóstico atualizado do sistema tributário brasileiro para subsidiar os debates dos técnicos, das autoridades e dos parlamentares em torno de sua reforma. Isto é feito a partir…

Date issued: Feb 2013
Author(s): Di Virgilio, María Mercedes

Este documento forma parte del módulo 1 del curso Participación Ciudadana en la Gestión Pública: enfoque y condiciones para su desarrollo. El presente módulo tiene por objetivo proveer una definición…

Date issued: Feb 2013
Author(s): Di Virgilio, María Mercedes

Este documento forma parte del módulo 1 del curso Participación Ciudadana en la Gestión Pública: enfoque y condiciones para su desarrollo. La presente unidad tiene por objetivos: reconocer a las…

Date issued: Feb 2013
Author(s): Di Virgilio, María Mercedes

Este documento forma parte del Módulo 2 del curso Participación Ciudadana en la Gestión Pública: enfoque y condiciones para su desarrollo. La presente unidad tiene por objetivo identificar y…

Date issued: Feb 2013
Author(s): Di Virgilio, María Mercedes

Este documento forma parte del Módulo 2 del curso Participación Ciudadana en la Gestión Pública. La presente unidad se propone identificar y caracterizar diferentes escenarios de participación a fin…

Date issued: Feb 2013
Author(s): Di Virgilio, María Mercedes

Este documento forma parte del módulo 2 del curso Participación Ciudadana en la Gestión Pública: enfoque y condiciones para su desarrollo. Esta unidad se propone proveer diferentes herramientas que…

Date issued: Jan 2013
Author(s): Ulloa, Alfie;Constrain, Silvia

The objective of the report is to present good practices in designing and introducing results frameworks for aid-for-trade projects and programs based on country defined quantifiable targets and a…

Date issued: Jan 2013
Author(s): Myers, Robert G.;Martínez, Arcelia;Delgado, Marco Antonio;Fernández, Juan Luis;Martínez, Adriana

En México, como en todo el mundo, se han producido cambios significativos que han supuesto una redefinición de roles e instituciones distintas de la familia - centros de cuidado, escuelas, centros de…

Date issued: Jan 2013
Author(s): Ducci, Jorge;Garcia Merino, Lucio Javier

La situación financiera de los entes que prestan los servicios públicos de agua y saneamiento en la región de América Latina y Caribe ha sido un tema de permanente preocupación de los analistas del…

Date issued: Jan 2013
Author(s): Powell, Andrew;Tavella, Pilar

The December 2012 surveys of expectations for inflation and growth conducted by Central Banks with inflation targeting regimes continue to focus on 2012 and 2013 expectations. The weighted average…

Date issued: Jan 2013 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Rubio-Codina, Marta;Attanasio, Orazio P.;Meghir, Costas;Varela, Natalia;Grantham-McGregor, Sally

We study the socio-economic gradient of child development on a representative sample of low- and middle-income children aged 6-42 months in Bogota, using the Bayley Scales of Infant Development, a…

Date issued: Jan 2013
Author(s): Garlati, Adrian

Climate change is changing the frequency and intensity of Extreme Weather Events (EWEs), particularly in poor developing countries, and the international community is increasingly suggesting the…

Date issued: Jan 2013
Author(s): Dixon, John A.

The expansion of project analysis to incorporate the environmental effects of a project is a direct descendent of the development of project analysis. Traditional project Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA)…

Date issued: Jan 2013
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

Between 1992 and 2012, the IDB Group approved 120 operations for Belize for a total of US$ 221 million. This publication provides some examples of the Bank's support to Belize, capturing…

Date issued: Jan 2013
Author(s): Galindo, Arturo;Rojas-Suárez, Liliana;Del Valle, Marielle

The importance of having in place a financial regulatory framework that includes macro-prudential regulations was fully recognized during the recent global financial crisis. A central lesson from…

Date issued: Jan 2013
Author(s): Velarde, Marco;Azuara, Oliver;Alonso, Pablo;Beuermann, Diether;Fevre, Chloe;Pecha, Camilo;Conroy, Hector;Sembler, Jose Ignacio

This country program evaluation (CPE) covers the 2007-2011 period. This evaluation pays particular attention to the relevance of the IDB's program in relation to Mexico's fundamental…

Date issued: Jan 2013
Author(s): Velarde, Marco;Azuara, Oliver;Alonso, Pablo;Beuermann, Diether;Fevre, Chloe;Pecha, Camilo;Conroy, Hector;Sembler, Jose Ignacio

Esta Evaluación de Programa de País (EPP) cubre el período 2007-2011.La evaluación analiza particularmente la relevancia del Programa del BID en relación con los desafíos fundamentales de México,…

Date issued: Jan 2013
Author(s): Pombo, Pablo;Molina, Horacio;Ramírez, Jesus N.

Los sistemas de garantía son instrumentos que tratan de mitigar las disfunciones que genera la exigencia de garantías a los empresarios en las operaciones crediticias. En este trabajo se diagnostican…

Date issued: Jan 2013
Author(s): Palacios, Jana;Flores-Roux, Ernesto;García Zaballos, Antonio

El objetivo de este documento es presentar un diagnóstico general sobre el estado del uso de las TIC en México, tanto en el contexto internacional cómo en relación a las brechas geográficas y…

Date issued: Jan 2013
Author(s): Gignoux, Jérémie;Macours, Karen;Wren-Lewis, Liam

Investment in land administration projects is often considered key for agricultural productivity and rural development. The evidence on such interventions is however remarkably mixed. This paper…

Date issued: Jan 2013
Author(s): Powers, Jennifer;Magnoni, Barbara

Supporting women's businesses has become a topic of growing interest to governments and mainstream development institutions in recent years. Declarations to address women's unequal access…

Date issued: Jan 2013
Author(s): Leamon, Ann;Garcia-Robles, Maria Susana;Lerner, Josh

Venture capital investment has been found to be remarkably effective at stimulating innovation and job growth. Government policy plays an important part in creating an ecosystem in which venture…

Date issued: Jan 2013
Author(s): Armendáriz, Edna;De Michele, Roberto;Manzano, Osmel;Martel, Pedro

En Guatemala, el área rural ha estado significativamente rezagada con respecto al dinamismo del área urbana. Los déficits de capital humano y de infraestructura son más profundos, mientras que las…

Date issued: Jan 2013
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

The 2012 Annual Business Review (ABR) provides management with a status of the Bank's performance. The ABR reports on outputs, lending program priorities, and organizational indicators on a…

Date issued: Jan 2013
Author(s): Giordano, Paolo;Harris, Jeremy;Ramos, Barbara

During the last decade the patterns of global growth have shifted, with the developing South expanding at a faster pace than the developed North. For countries in Latin American and the Caribbean (…

Date issued: Jan 2013
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

The Caja de Compensación Familiar de Antioquia, Comfama, is part of a national Colombian network of private, non-profit entities funded by a 4% public and private sector payroll contribution with a…

Date issued: Jan 2013
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

La Caja de Compensación Familiar de Antioquia, Comfama, es parte de una red colombiana de entidades sin fines de lucro financiadas por un 4% de contribución de la nómina del sector público y privado…

Date issued: Jan 2013
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

Banco de Desenvolvimento de Minas Gerais (BDMG) is the development bank of the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. BDMG will offer the new credit product "Acredita" or "Believe" to…

Date issued: Jan 2013
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

El Banco de Desenvolvimento de Minas Gerais (BDMG) es el banco de desarrollo del estado de Minas Gerais, Brasil. BDMG ofrecerá el nuevo producto crediticio «Acredita» o «Believe» para microempresas…

Date issued: Jan 2013
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

Banco Familiar, S.A.E.C.A. is the third largest bank in Paraguay and focuses on the base of the pyramid (BOP), a segment with whom traditional banks generally do not do business. With 15 years of…

Date issued: Jan 2013
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

Banco Familiar, S.A.E.C.A. es el tercer banco más grande de Paraguay y tiene como objetivo comercial la base de la pirámide (BDP), un segmento con el que los bancos tradicionales generalmente no…

Date issued: Jan 2013
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

Financiera Edyficar S.A. is a financial institution established by CARE Peru in 1997 with the mission of providing access and financial services to low-income individuals, especially microenterprise…

Date issued: Jan 2013
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

Financiera Edyficar S.A. es una institución financiera establecida por CARE Perú en 1997 con la misión de proporcionar servicios financieros a los individuos de bajos ingresos, particularmente…

Date issued: Jan 2013
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

University studies are beyond the reach of most the base of the pyramid (BOP) high school graduates with good grades limiting their ability to improve their skills, apply for higher-paying jobs and…

Date issued: Jan 2013
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

La educación universitaria está fuera del alcance de muchos egresados de la escuela secundaria de la base de la pirámide (BDP) con buen rendimiento, limitando su capacidad para mejorar sus…

Date issued: Jan 2013
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

Banco Agrícola S.A., established in 1955, is the largest bank in El Salvador providing retail and banking services. As part of its business strategy, Banco Agrícola will expand its portfolio with the…

Date issued: Jan 2013
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

El Banco Agrícola S.A., establecido en 1955, es el banco más grande de El Salvador. Proporciona servicios bancarios y al por menor. Como parte de su estrategia de negocios, Banco Agrícola ampliará su…