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Date issued: Aug 2007
Author(s): Masci, Pietro;Medici, André;Barros Weaver, Bernardo

This document presents data related to insurance and entrepreneurship in the states of Brazil over a period of 10 years. The data is accompanied by brief discussions of terms' definitions. They…

Date issued: Aug 2007
Author(s): Angel, Félix;Alvarado V., Ileana;Sequeira, Dora María

Nine artists, all living in Costa Rica, were selected out of thirty-four who responded to an open call to present portfolios. The selection criteria is to be forty years of age or younger, have had…

Date issued: Aug 2007 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Vodusek, Ziga;Granados, Jaime;Barreix, Alberto Daniel;López Córdova, José Ernesto;Volpe Martincus, Christian

Este análisis presenta un diagnóstico y señala los principales desafíos y alternativas de política que Costa Rica ha de enfrentar en la actual coyuntura en relación con su proceso de integración…

Date issued: Aug 2007
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank;Bendixen and Amandi

Results and analysis of a poll on the remittance senders (Mexico and Central America)

Date issued: Aug 2007
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank;Bendixen and Amandi

Results and analysis of a poll on remittance senders (Mexico and Central America)

Date issued: Aug 2007
Author(s): Wettstein, Mariana;Castillo Leska, Ana

Presentación del lanzamiento de la Comunidad Local de Aprendizaje de FOMIN en Uruguay, el cual pretende lograr el crecimiento inclusivo en la Región, a través del desarrollo del sector privado.…

Date issued: Aug 2007 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Barreix, Alberto Daniel;Vodusek, Ziga;López Córdova, José Ernesto;Granados, Jaime

Ante Honduras se abren nuevos e importantes desafíos en materia de comercio e integración. Este informe busca brindar una fotografía del desempeño del sector externo de Honduras, fundamentalmente el…

Date issued: Aug 2007
Author(s): Instituto Fonte;Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

Resultados de la evaluación a 6 meses de haber terminado la IV Conferencia Interamericana sobre RSE en la ciudad de Salvador, Brasil.

Date issued: Aug 2007
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

Presentación que ofrece información sobre K2Practice, iniciativa de Gestión del Conocimiento adoptada por FOMIN Uruguay. Asimismo, menciona algunos alcances sobre las comunidades de aprendizaje.

Date issued: Aug 2007
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

Presentación que ofrece información sobre K2Practice, iniciativa de Gestión del Conocimiento adoptada por FOMIN Argentina. Asimismo, menciona algunos alcances sobre las comunidades de aprendizaje.

Date issued: Aug 2007
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

The Bank defines Global Multisector Credit Operations (GMCs) as loans with sovereign guarantees granted to intermediary financial institutions or similar agencies to enable them to on-lend to sub-…

Date issued: Aug 2007
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

El Banco define las operaciones de crédito global multisectorial (GMC) como préstamos con garantías soberanas concedidos a instituciones financieras intermediarias o entidades similares, con el…

Date issued: Aug 2007
Author(s): Sureda, Daniel

En este estudio se analizan los aspectos institucionales en Uruguay que hacen a las relaciones entre los gobiernos departamentales y el gobierno nacional. En este sentido, la Constitución distribuye…

Date issued: Aug 2007
Author(s): Paciello, Fernando

El presente documento pretende analizar las características, las oportunidades y las limitaciones del marco de políticas que rige los ingresos propios municipales, haciendo las recomendaciones de…

Date issued: Aug 2007
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

Contrary to popular belief, privatizations can be socially very beneficial, but delivering these benefits to the poor often requires the power of government to regulate companies. The latest issue of…

Date issued: Aug 2007
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

Contrariamente a la creencia generalizada, las privatizaciones pueden resultar sumamente beneficiosas desde el punto de vista social, pero para llevar sus beneficios a los pobres se necesita la…

Date issued: Aug 2007
Author(s): Salazni, Mariana;Powell, Andrew;Martínez, Juan Francisco

Revelation of Expectations in Latin America (REVELA) is a monthly publication published by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Research Department (RES). The data comes from surveys of market…

Date issued: Aug 2007
Author(s): Salazni, Mariana;Powell, Andrew;Martínez, Juan Francisco

REVELA analiza las expectativas de los mercados sobre crecimiento e inflación para algunos países latinoamericanos. Los valores analizados representan los resultados de encuestas en el sector privado…

Date issued: Aug 2007 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Cohen, Remy;Dana, Joe;Gerli, Beatrice;Koutsoupakis, Dimitrios;Sisti, Elena

This document explores viable solutions to mitigate the impact of risks that are preventing private lenders from expanding their involvement in housing finance in selected countries of Latin America…

Date issued: Aug 2007 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Ruprah, Inder J.;Marcano, Luis

This paper presents the findings of a meta-evaluation of Chile's Social Housing Programs since the country's return to democracy in 1990. Chile's housing policy and the specific…

Date issued: Aug 2007 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Elías, Julio;Elías, Víctor;Ronconi, Lucas

The objective of this paper is to better understand peer popularity during adolescence and detect discrimination. The paper subsequently explores how student's characteristics affect their…

Date issued: Aug 2007 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Carrillo, Paul E.;Bellettini Cedeño, Orazio J.;Coombs, Elizabeth

This paper computes several indicators of water coverage, quality, and prices in Ecuador's two largest cities: Quito and Guayaquil- both before and after the privatization of water services in…

Date issued: Aug 2007 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Alcázar, Lorena;Nakasone, Eduardo;Torero, Máximo

The incomplete privatization of the electric sector in Peru provides a unique scenario for evaluating the impact of public versus private provision. The results in this paper suggest that management…

Date issued: Jul 2007 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Rojas, Francisco

El estudio Diagnóstico Estratégico del Sector Empresarial en Comunidades en Interes como Receptoras de Remesas tiene como objetivo realización de un diagnóstico estratégico de desarrollo empresarial…

Date issued: Jul 2007 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Chong, Alberto E.;Ñopo, Hugo R.

This paper surveys evidence on discrimination in Latin America and shows that there is a widespread perception of discrimination, especially against the poor, the uneducated and those who lack…

Date issued: Jul 2007
Author(s): Saginur, Dina;Zitelman, Shelby

Undergraduate students and researchers at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania present their research on corporate entrepreneurship, within the framework of MIF's "…

Date issued: Jul 2007
Author(s): Tejerina, Luis;Westley, Glenn D.

This document measures access and use of financial services making use of information from household surveys in Latin America and the Caribbean

Date issued: Jul 2007
Author(s): Alonso, Pablo;Cárdenas, Mauricio;De la Cruz, Rafael;Jaramillo, Felipe;Mateo-Berganza Díaz, María Mercedes;Mejía, Carolina;Pachón, Mónica;Payne, J. Mark;Pimenta, Carlos

Hoy existe un creciente consenso acerca de la importancia del "buen gobierno" para el crecimiento económico sustentable y la lucha contra la pobreza y la exclusión. La complejidad de la…

Date issued: Jul 2007
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo;Chambre de Commerce du Montréal Métropolitain

Presentación sobre la situación de las empresas en Montreal. Brinda información sobre la región metropolitana de Montreal, las iniciativas empresariales, así como las medidas a tomar para la mejora…

Date issued: Jul 2007
Author(s): Maggi Campos, Claudio

Taller - El Papel de las Entidades Territoriales en la Creación de Empleo

Date issued: Jul 2007
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank;Arkansas Arts Center

In commemoration of the fifteenth anniversary of the IDB Cultural Center, the IDB proudly accepted the invitation of Anne Plummer, Director of the Arkansas Art Center (AAC), to share a selection of…

Date issued: Jul 2007
Author(s): Reimers, Ricardo

Contribuir a la creación de un modelo regional de desarrollo de oportunidades de comercio electrónico para las PyMEs, que sea replicable en otras regiones de Bolivia.

Date issued: Jul 2007
Author(s): Salazar, Antonio

Contexto Preliminar: E-Commerce y Modelo de Negocios, Experiencia de Adopción TIC: Caso Farmacias, Consideraciones Finales

Date issued: Jul 2007
Author(s): Reimers, Ricardo

FUNDES promueve e impulsa el desarrollo competitivo de la PyME en América Latina

Date issued: Jul 2007
Author(s): Di Meglio, Roberto

La Organización Internacional del Trabajo (OIT) es un organismo especializado de las Naciones Unidas que procura fomentar la justicia social y los derechos humanos y laborales internacionalmente…

Date issued: Jul 2007
Author(s): Ordóñez Bustamante, Dwight

La presente investigación tiene por objetivo examinar las interacciones entre la falta de registro de identidad y las implicaciones sobre el desarrollo social y económico, en particular de los…

Date issued: Jul 2007
Author(s): Ordóñez Bustamante, Dwight

La presente investigación tiene por objetivo examinar la interacción entre la falta de registro de identidad en las personas (certificado de nacimiento, cédula de identidad civil) y las implicaciones…

Date issued: Jul 2007
Author(s): Ramírez, Ricardo

Presentación a cargo de la Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá, que ofrece información sobre las ciudades y las estrategias para gestionar el crecimiento y el empleo, así como los desafíos en el desarrollo…

Date issued: Jul 2007
Author(s): Powell, Andrew;Martínez, Juan Francisco;Salazni, Mariana

Revelation of Expectations in Latin America (REVELA) is a monthly publication published by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Research Department (RES). The data comes from surveys of market…

Date issued: Jul 2007 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Galdo, José;Saavedra-Chanduví, Jaime;Chong, Alberto E.

Peru has one of the highest informality rates in Latin America, with almost 60 percent of the urban labor force working at the margins of labor market legislation or in microenterprises that lack…

Date issued: Jul 2007 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Ñopo, Hugo R.

This paper proposes an extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition from two to a continuum of comparison groups. The proposed decomposition is then estimated for the case of racial wage differences…

Date issued: Jul 2007
Author(s): Sala-i-Martin, Xavier

A paper commissioned by the IDB sees trade openness to generate economic growth and help reduce poverty. The study, written by aColumbia University economics professor Xavier Sala-i-Martin, takes a…

Date issued: Jun 2007
Author(s): Bien, Amos

Esta guía sobre certificación está diseñada para quienes han escuchado sobre la certificación de turismo sostenible y ecoturismo y quieren entender cómo funciona o cómo iniciar el proceso.

Date issued: Jun 2007
Author(s): Honey, Martha;Rome, Abigail;Russillo, Aimee;Bien, Amos

This guide is part of a series of practical, how-to handbooks on sustainable tourism certification. These handbooks are based on research and reports done by the Center on Ecotourism and Sustainable…

Date issued: Jun 2007
Author(s): Honey, Martha;Rome, Abigail;Russillo, Aimee;Bien, Amos;Crabtree, Alice

This guide is part of a series of practical, how-to handbooks on sustainable tourism certification. These handbooks are based on research and reports done by the Center on Ecotourism and Sustainable…

Date issued: Jun 2007
Author(s): Honey, Martha;Rome, Abigail;Russillo, Aimee;Bien, Amos

Esta guía forma parte de una serie de manuales prácticos de ¿instrucciones¿ sobre la certificación en turismo sostenible. Estos manuales se fundamentan en la investigación y los informes efectuados…

Date issued: Jun 2007
Author(s): Honey, Martha;Russillo, Aimee;Rome, Abigail

This guide is part of a series of practical, how-to handbooks on sustainable tourism certification. These handbooks are based on research and reports done by the Center on Ecotourism and Sustainable…

Date issued: Jun 2007
Author(s): Magalhães, Fernanda;Rojas, Eduardo

The search for solutions to urban and social problems prompted by informal settlements is gaining importance in the development agenda of most large cities in Latin America. Nearly 60 percent of the…

Date issued: Jun 2007 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): León, Gianmarco;Chong, Alberto E.

This paper takes advantage of a recent large firm-level dataset to compare labor indicators of privatized, private, and public firms around the world, particularly wages, benefits, labor composition…

Date issued: Jun 2007 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Cavallo, Eduardo A.;Valenzuela, Patricio;Borensztein, Eduardo

Natural disasters are an important source of vulnerability in the Caribbean region. Despite being one of the more disaster-prone areas of the world, it has the lowest levels of insurance coverage.…