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Date issued: Mar 2014
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desenvolvimento

A carta mensal do INTAL informa sobre os desenvolvimentos nas áreas de integração e comércio nas regiões da América Latina e do Caribe. É também um meio de difusão das atividades do BID sobre estes…

Date issued: Mar 2014
Author(s): Tres, Joaquim;Wollrad, Kea;García, Luciana;Pascual, Ramiro;Shearer, Matthew

The Regional Public Goods (RPG) Initiative is the main instrument of the Bank for horizontal regional cooperation, creating development solutions that have the potential to improve the…

Date issued: Mar 2014
Author(s): Tres, Joaquim;Wollrad, Kea;García, Luciana;Pascual, Ramiro;Shearer, Matthew

La Iniciativa de Bienes Públicos Regionales (BPR) es el principal instrumento del Banco para la cooperación regional horizontal creando soluciones de desarrollo que tengan el potencial de mejorar la…

Date issued: Mar 2014
Author(s): Mercer-Blackman, Valerie;Seerattan, Dave

This policy brief defines the challenges of conducting appropriate fiscal policy over the past 20 years in four Caribbean countries (The Bahamas, Barbados, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago) and…

Date issued: Mar 2014
Author(s): Planas, Maria Elena;García, Patricia J.;Bustelo, Monserrat;Cárcamo, Cesar;Ñopo, Hugo R.;Martinez, Sebastian;Merino, María Fernanda;Morrison, Andrew

This study aims to evaluate whether health providers in Peru might be contributing to ethnic health disparities in the provision of family planning services, by comparing providers' adherence to…

Date issued: Mar 2014
Author(s): Queiroz, Cesar;Astesiano, Gastón;Serebrisky, Tomás

This paper reviews the current status of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) intervention on PPP in Brazil, including a stakeholders' survey on the performance of the Brazilian PPP program…

Date issued: Mar 2014
Author(s): Támola, Alejandro

This work summarizes the results from a series of papers prepared within the framework of the project "Credit, Formalization, and Firm Growth." Those papers were prepared to help inform the…

Date issued: Mar 2014
Author(s): Thomas, Chrystol

In this policy brief, we examine the current tourism product in the CARICOM member states with a particular focus on the economies that rely most on the industry. The analysis shows that the tourism…

Date issued: Feb 2014 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Urrutia, Miguel;Hofstetter, Marc;Hamann, Franz

After decades using monetary aggregates as the main instrument of monetary policy and having different varieties of crawling peg exchange rate regimes, Colombia adopted a full-fledged inflation-…

Date issued: Feb 2014
Author(s): Bos, María Soledad;Ganimian, Alejandro;Vegas, Emiliana

En el 2012, ocho países de América Latina (Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, México, Perú y Uruguay) participaron en el Programa para la Evaluación Internacional de Alumnos (PISA, por…

Date issued: Feb 2014
Author(s): Varsano, Ricardo

O Brasil introduziu o imposto sobre o valor adicionado (IVA) em nível estadual em 1967, o ICM, rebatizado em 1988 de ICMS - numa época em que a base das poucos IVAs existentes não incluía a prestação…

Date issued: Feb 2014
Author(s): Araujo, Erika Amorim

O objetivo deste trabalho é investigar o comportamento da cota-parte do ICMS distribuída entre os municípios de estados selecionados considerando sua evolução nos anos de 2002 a 2010. Foram…

Date issued: Feb 2014
Author(s): Grafe, Fernando

La gestión de la defensa jurídica del Estado está siendo de manera insistente el centro de atención en varios países latinoamericanos, debido a sus importantes implicaciones tanto jurídicas como…

Date issued: Feb 2014
Author(s): Institute for the Integration of Latin America and the Caribbean

The INTAL Monthly Newsletter reports on developments in integration and trade across Latin American and the Caribbean. It also serves as a forum for discussing the IDB's activities related to…

Date issued: Feb 2014
Author(s): Instituto para la Integración de América Latina y el Caribe

La carta mensual del INTAL informa sobre desarrollos en las áreas de integración y comercio en las regiones de América Latina y el Caribe. También es el medio para difundir las actividades realizadas…

Date issued: Feb 2014
Author(s): Instituto para a Integração da América Latina e do Caribe

A Carta Mensal INTAL relatórios sobre a evolução da integração e do comércio em toda a América Latina e Caribe. Ela também serve como um fórum para discutir as atividades do BID relacionadas com…

Date issued: Feb 2014
Author(s): Arretche, Marta Teresa S.;Schlegel, Rogerio

Este trabalho explorara o papel dos estados na federação brasileira com base em duas dimensões distintas: a autoridade constitucional dos estados e a avaliação dos cidadãos sobre a importância dos…

Date issued: Feb 2014
Author(s): Rodrigues Afonso, José Roberto;Figueiró Silveira, Ricardo;Silva Carvalho, Célia Maria;Klintowitz, Danielle;De Azevedo, Felipe

A agenda brasileira de propostas e debates sobre a reforma tributária gira há décadas em torno do imposto sobre operações relativas à circulação de mercadorias e sobre prestações de serviços de…

Date issued: Feb 2014 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Cornick, Jorge;Jimenez, Jorge;Román, Marcela

Public-private collaboration in productive development policy in Costa Rica frequently takes the form of policy co-governance: an autonomous institution in charge of policy for a particular economic…

Date issued: Feb 2014 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Eslava, Marcela;Meléndez Arjona, Marcela;Perry, Guillermo

This Working Paper analyzes the institutions that shape public-private collaboration for the design and implementation of productive development policies in Colombia. These policies are increasingly…

Date issued: Feb 2014 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Sola, Martín;González Rozada, Martín

Using a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with financial frictions, this paper evaluates the effects of a rule that incorporates not only the interest rate but also the legal reserve…

Date issued: Feb 2014
Author(s): Weisburd, David;Telep, Cody W.

This Technical Note suggests that the focus of policing should be on very small geographic units of analysis, such as street segments or small groups of street blocks. Crime at place is not simply a…

Date issued: Feb 2014
Author(s): Weisburd, David;Telep, Cody W.

El informe señala que el énfasis de la vigilancia policial debería centrarse en unidades geográficas de análisis muy pequeñas, tales como segmentos de calles o pequeños grupos de manzanas. La…

Date issued: Feb 2014
Author(s): García Zaballos, Antonio;González Herranz, Félix;Iglesias Rodriguez, Enrique

This discussion paper describes the methodology used to compute the Broadband Development Index (IDBA, Indice de Desarrollo de la Banda Ancha). The main goal of the IDBA is to size the Digital Divide…

Date issued: Feb 2014
Author(s): Martin, Dougal;Quintanilla, Giovanella

Esta nota técnica fue preparada para apoyar el diálogo entre el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID) y el gobierno de Nicaragua. Específicamente se la preparó como insumo para la elaboración de…