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Date issued: Oct 2012
Author(s): Alvarez, Roberto;Crespi, Gustavo;Volpe Martincus, Christian

Firms get assistance from different public and private entities and these alternative assistances can affect export outcomes. Ignoring other interventions implies leaving unaddressed relevant policy…

Date issued: Oct 2012
Author(s): Simpson, Murray;Mercer Clarke, Colleen S.L.;Clarke, John D.;Scott, Daniel;Clarke, Alexander J.

Bank investments in tourism and other coastal development projects have been on the rise, generating an interest in the development of instruments and tools that would more effectively inform Bank…

Date issued: Oct 2012
Author(s): Redwood, John

The purpose of this technical note is to identify key environment and safeguard-related risks and opportunities that should be taken into account in the new Country Strategy for the Dominican…

Date issued: Oct 2012
Author(s): Jacquet, Bruno;Simmoneaux, Mathilde

La agricultura haitiana, en su mayoría familiar y de subsistencia, enfrenta en la actualidad diversos retos para mejorar sus niveles de productividad y el acesso a factores de producción. En 2011 se…

Date issued: Oct 2012
Author(s): Ñopo, Hugo R.

This book presents a regional overview of gender and ethnic disparities in labor earnings during this last turn of the century. After this introduction, chapter 2 presents the methodology adopted by…

Date issued: Oct 2012 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Cesa-Bianchi, Ambrogio

This paper investigates the international spillovers of housing demand shocks on real economic activity. The global economy is modeled using a Global VAR, with a novel house price data set for both…

Date issued: Oct 2012
Author(s): Näslund-Hadley, Emma;Martínez, Ernesto;Loera Varela, Armando;Hernández Agramonte, Juan Manuel

In Paraguay, for the past three years the Ministry of Education and Culture and the IDB have jointly studied what works in math and science education in Paraguay. During this time we have been…

Date issued: Oct 2012 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Frisancho, Verónica

Using borrower-level data from FINCA, one of Peru's leading microfinance institutions (MFIs), this paper evaluates the effect on borrowers' access to credit of FINCA's decision to…

Date issued: Oct 2012
Author(s): Estevadeordal, Antoni;Kahn, Theodore

Trade between Latin America and China has grown at an annual average rate of 25 percent since 2000, driven primarily by strong complementarity between the two economies. While commodities-for-…

Date issued: Oct 2012
Author(s): Estevadeordal, Antoni;Kahn, Theodore

El comercio entre América Latina y China ha crecido a una tasa promedio anual del 25 por ciento desde el año 2000, impulsado principalmente por la fuerte complementariedad entre las dos economías. Si…