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Date issued: Jan 2010
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

Este informe es un resumen de las actividades del Centro Cultural del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo en 2009. A lo largo de este año, el Centro Cultural del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo…

Date issued: Jan 2010
Author(s): Martínez Arce, Evelyn;Daza, Diego;Tello Espinoza, Pilar;Soulier Faure, Martin;Terraza, Horacio

This regional report is the product of the joint efforts of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and the Inter-American Association of Sanitary and…

Date issued: Jan 2010
Author(s): Martínez Arce, Evelyn;Daza, Diego;Tello Espinoza, Pilar;Soulier Faure, Martin;Terraza, Horacio

El trabajo conjunto de la Organización Panamericana de la Salud (OPS), el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID) y la Asociación Interamericana de Ingeniería Sanitaria y Ambiental (AIDIS) ha…

Date issued: Jan 2010
Author(s): Martínez Arce, Evelyn;Daza, Diego;Tello Espinoza, Pilar;Soulier Faure, Martin;Terraza, Horacio

O trabalho conjunto da Organização Pan-Americana da Saúde (OPAS), o Banco Interamericano de Desenvolvimento (BID) e a Associação Interamericana de Engenharia Sanitária e Ambiental (AIDIS) gerou este…

Date issued: Jan 2010 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Volpe Martincus, Christian

Despite progress in communication technologies, lack of information still severely handicaps companies seeking to operate in international markets. Furthermore, the investments that these companies…

Date issued: Jan 2010 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Ellis, Amanda N.;Orlando, María Beatriz;Muñoz Boudet, Ana Maria;Piras, Claudia;Reimao, Maira;Cutura, Jozefina;Frickenstein, Judith;Perez, Ane;De Castro, Orsi

Entrepreneurship contributes to a vibrant private sector and can stimulate broader economic growth. Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have experienced an important growth of…

Date issued: Jan 2010 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Scartascini, Carlos;Stein, Ernesto H.;Tommasi, Mariano;Jones, Mark P.;Saiegh, Sebastián;Magaldi de Sousa, Mariana;Martínez-Gallardo, Cecilia;Zuvanic, Laura;Iacoviello, Mercedes;Rodríguez Gusta, Ana Laura;Monaldi, Francisco;Schneider, Ben Ross;Murillo, Maria Victoria;Schrank, Andrew;Hughes, Sallie

Over the past 30 years, democratic freedoms and competitive electoral processes have taken hold as never before in Latin America. How Democracy Works takes a detailed look, from an institutional…

Date issued: Jan 2010 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Alston, Julian M.;Sebastian, Kate;Beintema, Nienke M.;Hertford, Reed;Wood, Stanley;Wood-Sichra, Ulrike;You, Liang;Chan-Kang, Connie;Revoredo-Giha, César L.;Pardey, Philip G.

This volume offers substantive clarification of the proper roles for public agricultural research and development (R&D) throughout Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and introduces an…

Date issued: Jan 2010
Author(s): van Praag, Bernard M.S.;Gandelman, Néstor;Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada;Ham, Andrés;Lora, Eduardo;Tetaz, Martín;Medina, Carlos;Sanguinetti, Pablo;Cruces, Guillermo;Piani, Giorgina;Alcázar, Lorena;Powell, Andrew;Núñez, Jairo;Ferre, Zuleika;Andrade, Raúl;Robalino, Juan;Madrigal, Róger;Hall, Luis J.;Morales, Leonardo

A growing number of cities around the world have established systems for monitoring the quality of urban life. Many of those systems combine objective information with subjective opinions and cover a…

Date issued: Jan 2010
Author(s): García-Huitrón, Manuel;Impavido, Gregorio;Lasagabaster, Esperanza

This book has three main objectives: (i) discusses the main implications for the functioning of mandatory defined contribution pensions of consumers' inability to make rational choices; (ii)…