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Date issued: Feb 2013
Author(s): Di Virgilio, María Mercedes

Este documento forma parte del Módulo 2 del curso Participación Ciudadana en la Gestión Pública: enfoque y condiciones para su desarrollo. La presente unidad tiene por objetivo identificar y…

Date issued: Feb 2013
Author(s): Di Virgilio, María Mercedes

Este documento forma parte del Módulo 2 del curso Participación Ciudadana en la Gestión Pública. La presente unidad se propone identificar y caracterizar diferentes escenarios de participación a fin…

Date issued: Feb 2013
Author(s): Di Virgilio, María Mercedes

Este documento forma parte del módulo 2 del curso Participación Ciudadana en la Gestión Pública: enfoque y condiciones para su desarrollo. Esta unidad se propone proveer diferentes herramientas que…

Date issued: Jan 2013
Author(s): Ulloa, Alfie;Constrain, Silvia

The objective of the report is to present good practices in designing and introducing results frameworks for aid-for-trade projects and programs based on country defined quantifiable targets and a…

Date issued: Jan 2013
Author(s): Myers, Robert G.;Martínez, Arcelia;Delgado, Marco Antonio;Fernández, Juan Luis;Martínez, Adriana

En México, como en todo el mundo, se han producido cambios significativos que han supuesto una redefinición de roles e instituciones distintas de la familia - centros de cuidado, escuelas, centros de…

Date issued: Jan 2013
Author(s): Ducci, Jorge;Garcia Merino, Lucio Javier

La situación financiera de los entes que prestan los servicios públicos de agua y saneamiento en la región de América Latina y Caribe ha sido un tema de permanente preocupación de los analistas del…

Date issued: Jan 2013 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Rubio-Codina, Marta;Attanasio, Orazio P.;Meghir, Costas;Varela, Natalia;Grantham-McGregor, Sally

We study the socio-economic gradient of child development on a representative sample of low- and middle-income children aged 6-42 months in Bogota, using the Bayley Scales of Infant Development, a…

Date issued: Jan 2013
Author(s): Powell, Andrew;Tavella, Pilar

The December 2012 surveys of expectations for inflation and growth conducted by Central Banks with inflation targeting regimes continue to focus on 2012 and 2013 expectations. The weighted average…

Date issued: Jan 2013
Author(s): Garlati, Adrian

Climate change is changing the frequency and intensity of Extreme Weather Events (EWEs), particularly in poor developing countries, and the international community is increasingly suggesting the…

Date issued: Jan 2013
Author(s): Dixon, John A.

The expansion of project analysis to incorporate the environmental effects of a project is a direct descendent of the development of project analysis. Traditional project Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA)…

Date issued: Jan 2013
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

Between 1992 and 2012, the IDB Group approved 120 operations for Belize for a total of US$ 221 million. This publication provides some examples of the Bank's support to Belize, capturing…

Date issued: Jan 2013
Author(s): Galindo, Arturo;Rojas-Suárez, Liliana;Del Valle, Marielle

The importance of having in place a financial regulatory framework that includes macro-prudential regulations was fully recognized during the recent global financial crisis. A central lesson from…

Date issued: Jan 2013
Author(s): Velarde, Marco;Azuara Herrera, Oliver;Alonso, Pablo;Beuermann, Diether;Fevre, Chloe;Pecha, Camilo;Conroy, Hector;Sembler, Jose Ignacio

This country program evaluation (CPE) covers the 2007-2011 period. This evaluation pays particular attention to the relevance of the IDB's program in relation to Mexico's fundamental…

Date issued: Jan 2013
Author(s): Velarde, Marco;Azuara Herrera, Oliver;Alonso, Pablo;Beuermann, Diether;Fevre, Chloe;Pecha, Camilo;Conroy, Hector;Sembler, Jose Ignacio

Esta Evaluación de Programa de País (EPP) cubre el período 2007-2011.La evaluación analiza particularmente la relevancia del Programa del BID en relación con los desafíos fundamentales de México,…

Date issued: Jan 2013
Author(s): Pombo, Pablo;Molina, Horacio;Ramírez, Jesus N.

Los sistemas de garantía son instrumentos que tratan de mitigar las disfunciones que genera la exigencia de garantías a los empresarios en las operaciones crediticias. En este trabajo se diagnostican…

Date issued: Jan 2013
Author(s): Palacios, Jana;Flores-Roux, Ernesto;García Zaballos, Antonio

El objetivo de este documento es presentar un diagnóstico general sobre el estado del uso de las TIC en México, tanto en el contexto internacional cómo en relación a las brechas geográficas y…

Date issued: Jan 2013
Author(s): Giordano, Paolo;Harris, Jeremy;Ramos, Barbara

During the last decade the patterns of global growth have shifted, with the developing South expanding at a faster pace than the developed North. For countries in Latin American and the Caribbean (…

Date issued: Jan 2013
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

The 2012 Annual Business Review (ABR) provides management with a status of the Bank's performance. The ABR reports on outputs, lending program priorities, and organizational indicators on a…

Date issued: Jan 2013
Author(s): Armendáriz, Edna;De Michele, Roberto;Manzano, Osmel;Martel, Pedro

En Guatemala, el área rural ha estado significativamente rezagada con respecto al dinamismo del área urbana. Los déficits de capital humano y de infraestructura son más profundos, mientras que las…

Date issued: Jan 2013
Author(s): Gignoux, Jérémie;Macours, Karen;Wren-Lewis, Liam

Investment in land administration projects is often considered key for agricultural productivity and rural development. The evidence on such interventions is however remarkably mixed. This paper…

Date issued: Jan 2013
Author(s): Powers, Jennifer;Magnoni, Barbara

Supporting women's businesses has become a topic of growing interest to governments and mainstream development institutions in recent years. Declarations to address women's unequal access…

Date issued: Jan 2013
Author(s): Leamon, Ann;Garcia-Robles, Maria Susana;Lerner, Josh

Venture capital investment has been found to be remarkably effective at stimulating innovation and job growth. Government policy plays an important part in creating an ecosystem in which venture…

Date issued: Jan 2013
Author(s): Rodríguez Gómez, Diana;Harris- Van Keuren, Christine

This report details a comparative analysis of early learning guidelines (ELGs) for infants and toddlers less than 3 years of age in Latin America and the Caribbean. The 19 ELGs evaluated are utilized…

Date issued: Jan 2013
Author(s): Rodríguez Gómez, Diana;Harris- Van Keuren, Christine

Este informe presenta un análisis comparativo de las pautas para el aprendizaje temprano (de aquí en adelante PAT) de niños y niñas menores de 3 años en América Latina y el Caribe. Las PAT evaluadas…

Date issued: Jan 2013
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

The Caja de Compensación Familiar de Antioquia, Comfama, is part of a national Colombian network of private, non-profit entities funded by a 4% public and private sector payroll contribution with a…