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Date issued: Jan 2006 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Monaldi, Francisco;González de Pacheco, Rosa Amelia;Obuchi, Richard;Penfold, Michael

This case study of Venezuela's democratic institution and policymaking processes is part of the broader regional project based on the theoretical framework developed by Spiller, Stein and…

Date issued: Jan 2006 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Calderón, César;Chong, Alberto E.

Drawing on previously unused objective institutional data, we provide evidence for the causal link between rent-seeking behavior and democracy in Uruguay, a country where both rent-seeking behavior…

Date issued: Jan 2006
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

The Social Inclusion Trust Fund (the Fund), created in 2003 with support from the Royal Norwegian Foreign Ministry and Great Britain (DFID), is compelled at the end of its first three-year period, to…

Date issued: Jan 2006 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Murillo, Maria Victoria;Schneider, Ben Ross;Iacoviello, Mercedes;Scartascini, Carlos;Monaldi, Francisco;Payne, J. Mark;Martínez-Gallardo, Cecilia;Stein, Ernesto H.;Echebarría, Koldo;Whitehead, Laurence;Mateo-Berganza Díaz, María Mercedes;Lora, Eduardo;Filc, Gabriel;Bergara, Mario;Saiegh, Sebastián;Magaldi de Sousa, Mariana;Navarro, Juan Carlos;Mercer-Blackman, Valerie;Pereyra, Andrés;Cárdenas, Mauricio;Tommasi, Mariano;Santiso, Javier;Hughes, Sallie;Zuvanic, Laura;Jones, Mark P.;Clavijo, Laura

En los últimos años han surgido dudas con respecto a la eficiencia de las reformas económicas y un debate sobre el rumbo que debería tomar la política económica y social a fin de alcanzar la elusiva…

Date issued: Jan 2006 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Murillo, Maria Victoria;Schneider, Ben Ross;Iacoviello, Mercedes;Scartascini, Carlos;Monaldi, Francisco;Payne, J. Mark;Martínez-Gallardo, Cecilia;Stein, Ernesto H.;Echebarría, Koldo;Whitehead, Laurence;Mateo-Berganza Díaz, María Mercedes;Lora, Eduardo;Filc, Gabriel;Bergara, Mario;Saiegh, Sebastián;Magaldi de Sousa, Mariana;Navarro, Juan Carlos;Mercer-Blackman, Valerie;Pereyra, Andrés;Cárdenas, Mauricio;Tommasi, Mariano;Santiso, Javier;Hughes, Sallie;Zuvanic, Laura;Jones, Mark P.;Clavijo, Laura

This report examines the quality of public policies in Latin America and the Caribbean after more than a decade of political and economic reform. A wide variety of examples and case studies are…

Date issued: Dec 2005
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

Presents projects approved to receive financial support during 2005 of Cultural Development Program by Inter-American Development Bank Cultural Center.

Date issued: Dec 2005 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Araoz, Mercedes

En este trabajo se muestra los avances que en política comercial ha tenido el Perú y sus principales direcciones. Del desarrollo del trabajo se desprende que es importante fortalecer el diseño de la…

Date issued: Dec 2005 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Tanzi, Vito

This paper discusses the relationship between various global trends and national tax system.

Date issued: Dec 2005
Author(s): Regalia, Ferdinando;Robles, Marcos

The Dominican Republic invests a considerable amount of public resources in transfer and subsidy programs with the main objective of redistributing income to and subsidizing consumption of the poor.…

Date issued: Dec 2005
Author(s): Santistevan, Carlos

Examination of the Financial Institution's legal and regulatory problems associated with the remittance market in Mexico

Date issued: Dec 2005
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

24 videos from 12 countries were selected from among 160 works submitted from 18 countries. The First and Second Prizes were awarded Ex Aequo (shared). The members of the international jury were…

Date issued: Dec 2005 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Tanzi, Vito

This paper will discuss the use of instruments that promote social protection. It then will assess the impact that globalization, in all its manifestations, might have on these instruments.

Date issued: Dec 2005
Author(s): Antunes, Pedro Eiras

Presentation delivered during the event "Experiencias de Provisión y Financiamiento de Infraestructura bajo Alianzas Publico-Privadas", held at the Inter-American Development Bank…

Date issued: Dec 2005
Author(s): Antunes, Pedro Eiras

Presentation delivered during the event "Experiencias de Provisión y Financiamiento de Infraestructura bajo Alianzas Publico-Privadas" at the Inter-American Development Bank headquarters,…

Date issued: Dec 2005
Author(s): Barragán, Jaime

Presentation delivered during the event "Experiencias de Provisión y Financiamiento de Infraestructura bajo Asociaciones Publico-Privadas", held in the Inter-American Development Bank…

Date issued: Dec 2005
Author(s): Barragán, Jaime

Presentation delivered during the event "Experiencias de Provisión y Financiamianto de Infraestructura bajo Asociaciones Público Privadas (APPs)", held at the Inter-American Development…

Date issued: Dec 2005
Author(s): Barragán, Jaime

Presentation dictated during the event "Experiencias de Provisión y Financiamiento de Infraestructura bajo Asociaciones Publico Privadas", held at the Inter-American Development Bank,…

Date issued: Dec 2005
Author(s): Barragán, Jaime

Presentation delivered during the event "Experiencias de Provisión y Financiamiento de Infraestructura bajo Asociaciones Público-Privadas (APPs)", held at the Inter-American Development…

Date issued: Dec 2005
Author(s): Antunes, Pedro Eiras

Presentation delivered during the event "Experiencias de Provisión y Financiamiento de Infraestructura bajo Asociaciones Público Privadas ", held at the Inter-American Development Bank…

Date issued: Dec 2005
Author(s): Antunes, Pedro Eiras

Presentation delivered during the event "Experiencias de Provisión y Financiamiento de Infraestructura bajo Asociaciones Público Privadas (APPs)", held at the Inter-American Development…

Date issued: Dec 2005
Author(s): Antunes, Pedro Eiras

Presentation delivered during the event "Experiencias de Provisión y Financiamiento de Infraestructura bajo Asociaciones Público Privadas", held at the Inter-American Development Bank…

Date issued: Dec 2005
Author(s): Antunes, Pedro Eiras

Presentation delivered during the event "Experiencias de Provisión y Financiamiento de Infraestructura bajo APPs", held at the Inter-American Development Bank, Washington D.C., December 8-9…

Date issued: Dec 2005
Author(s): Antunes, Pedro Eiras

Presentation dictated during the event "Experiencias de Provisión y Financiamiento de Infraestructura bajo Alianzas Publico-Privadas", held at the Inter-American Development Bank,…

Date issued: Dec 2005
Author(s): Barragán, Jaime

Presentación expuesta durante el evento "Experiencias de Provisión y Financiamiento de Infraestructura bajo APPs" llevado a cabo en el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo, Washington D.C., 8…

Date issued: Dec 2005
Author(s): Barragán, Jaime

Presentación expuesta durante el evento "Experiencias de Provisión y Financiamiento de Infraestructura bajo Asociaciones Publico Privadas", llevado a cabo en el Banco Interamericano de…

Date issued: Dec 2005
Author(s): Barragán, Jaime

Presentación expuesta durante el evento "Experiencias de Provisión y Financiamiento de Infraestructura bajo Asociaciones Público Privadas", llevado a cabo en el Banco Interamericano de…

Date issued: Dec 2005
Author(s): Barragán, Jaime

Presentación expuesta durante el evento "Experiencias de Provisión y Financiamiento de Infraestructura bajo Asociaciones Público Privadas", llevado a cabo en el Banco Interamericano de…

Date issued: Dec 2005
Author(s): Barragán, Jaime

Presentación expuesta durante el evento "Experiencias de Provisión y Financiamiento de Infraestructura bajo APPs", llevado a cabo en el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo, Washington D.C.,…

Date issued: Dec 2005
Author(s): Barragán, Jaime

Presentación expuesta durante el evento "Experiencias de Provisión y Financiamiento de Infraestructura bajo Asociaciones Público Privadas (APPs)", llevado a cabo en Washington D.C. del 8 al…

Date issued: Dec 2005
Author(s): Naím, Moisés

Moisés Naím (1952-), Venezuelan Editor-in-Chief of Foreign Policy magazine, National Magazine Award for General Excellence (2003, 2007), author or editor of eight books.

Date issued: Dec 2005
Author(s): Naím, Moisés

Moisés Naím (1952-), venezolano, Editor en Jefe de la Revista Foreign Policy, recibió el premio Nacional de la Revista por Excelencia General (2003, 2007), y autor y editor de ocho libros.

Date issued: Dec 2005
Author(s): Bendixen and Amandi;Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

Resultados y análisis de encuesta en Perú acerca de Receptores de Remesas

Date issued: Dec 2005
Author(s): Ordóñez Bustamante, Dwight;Bracamonte Bardález, Patricia

Este informe es una herramienta práctica para el diseño, implementación y evaluación de proyectos que buscan erradicar, reducir o mejorar las condiciones del trabajo infantil y de adolescentes en…

Date issued: Dec 2005
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

El presente informe recoge las experiencias del grupo BID durante el período 1990-2004. En su carácter de organismo regional de desarrollo, el grupo BID ha realizado esfuerzos en colaboración con los…

Date issued: Dec 2005
Author(s): Pettersen, Ivar;Skjelvik, John Magne;Krokeide, Nils Atle

This technical paper analyzes the potential practical application of financial instruments for natural hazard risk finance and transfer in Latin America. The study first presents an overview of the…

Date issued: Dec 2005 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Blanco, Hernán;Borregaard, Nicola;Jokisch, Walter;Marín, Rebeca;Wilk, David;Studer, Isabel

Este documento fue comisionado por la Red de Medio Ambiente del Diálogo Regional de Política para la 4a Reunión Hemisférica celebrada el día 19 de julio de 2005. Se trata de una síntesis de los…

Date issued: Dec 2005
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

El período que va entre el segundo semestre de 2004 y los primeros seis meses de 2005 puede ser caracterizado como de convergencia en la evolución macroeconómica regional. Los países del Mercado…

Date issued: Dec 2005 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Flaño Calderón, Nicolás;Piazze, Ada Inés;Zovatto G., Daniel;Varela-Erasheva, Marcelo;Barahona, Manuel A.;Gallardo, Roberto;Sojo, Carlos;De Bográn, María Antonieta;Cárleton Corrales, José;Toranzo Roca, Carlos;Sagasti, Francisco;Prada, Fernando

En 1996, el BID junto a la Corporación Justicia y Democracia de Chile, presidida por el ex presidente Patricio Aylwin, dio inicio al Proyecto Regional Diálogo de Política Social (DPS) o Iniciativa…

Date issued: Dec 2005 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Berger, Marguerite;Beck Yonas, Alison;Lloreda, María Lucía

El Programa Global de Crédito para la Microempresa del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID) provee financiamiento a los bancos comerciales y otros intermediarios financieros formales para…

Date issued: Dec 2005 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Rodríguez-Clare, Andrés

This paper discusses coordination failures, their relevance to developing countries, and the circumstances under which they occur, arguing that that clusters can be seen as agglomerations of firms…

Date issued: Dec 2005 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Rodríguez-Clare, Andrés

Industrial agglomerations or 'clusters' arise in the presence of industry-specific and local externalities, also called Marshallian externalities. The standard argument is that such…

Date issued: Dec 2005 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Galindo, Arturo;Micco, Alejandro

This paper studies the relationship between creditor protection and credit volatility. During the negative phase of the business cycle, credit contracts more in countries with poor creditor…

Date issued: Dec 2005
Author(s): Pratt, Lawrence;Rivera, Luis;Quiroga, Ricardo

Este documento, en el contexto de El Salvador, busca demostrar que el clima de negocios, las relaciones comerciales y la competitividad no están desasociados del desempeño ambiental. Al contrario, un…

Date issued: Dec 2005
Author(s): Rigobón, Roberto

El presente estudio versa sobre el establecimiento de un fondo de estabilización del precio del petróleo que mitigue el impacto del aumento en el precio internacional del crudo sobre las economías…

Date issued: Dec 2005
Author(s): Taylor, J. Edward;Yúñez Naude, Antonio;Jesurun-Clements, Nancy

El presente estudio tuvo como objetivo medir los posibles efectos directos e indirectos en la economía rural de las nuevas condiciones comerciales que enfrentan El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras y…

Date issued: Dec 2005
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

The first article in this issue of Microenterprise Development Review discusses how banks can adapt scoring to microenterprise loans and how scoring can be adapted to microlenders. It also discusses…

Date issued: Dec 2005
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

Este número de Microempresa incluye dos artículos principales. En el primero se analiza la forma en la que los bancos pueden adaptar el scoring estadístico para sus préstamos de consumo. También se…

Date issued: Dec 2005
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

El presente informe contiene un resumen de los esfuerzos que el grupo BID ha realizado en el periodo 1990-2005 para mejorar la competitividad del sector PyME. En su carácter de organismo multilateral…

Date issued: Dec 2005 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Galindo, Arturo;Micco, Alejandro

This paper develops a model showing that inefficient legal protections disproportionately increase financial restrictions for creditors that have less wealth. Due to fixed monitoring costs in…

Date issued: Dec 2005 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Galindo, Arturo;Micco, Alejandro;Powell, Andrew

We suggest that foreign banks may represent a trade-off for their developing country hosts. A portfolio model is developed to show that a more diversified international bank may be one of lower,…