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Jan 2012
Este documento evalúa la sostenibilidad de la deuda pública en Guatemala mediante la aplicación de metodologías tradicionales. De acuerdo con el enfoque estándar, se requiere un superávit primario…
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Jan 2012
The 2011 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…
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Jan 2012
Low-income and self-employed Nicaraguans face two serious obstacles when looking to buy a home: a shortage of affordable housing, and difficulty in obtaining a mortgage.An innovative model is…
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Jan 2012
Aspiring college graduates from low-income Mexican families have seized the chance to fund their studies through the education financing company FINAE. Founded in 2006, the company has expanded its…
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Jan 2012
Financiación Social (Social Financing or FS), an EPM program, provides accessible credit to those at the base of the pyramid. The program leverages EPM's business platform to assess credit risk…
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Jan 2012
Mi Tienda provides door-to-door supply of grocery and basic products, as well as financing for merchandise purchase and business expansion to stores in rural communities with up to 5,000 inhabitants…
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Jan 2012
Microentrepreneurs in the food retail industry face challenges in accessing credit to undertake daily activities or to expand their businesses and in acquiring technical skills to sustainable grow.…
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Jan 2012
Many private companies in Latin America and the Caribbean have innovative ideas of ways to do business providing basic services such as health care, education, energy, and water to people at the base…
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Jan 2012
Haitians of all economic levels are interested in buying insurance products, increasingly so in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake of 2010. One traditional insurance company whose reputation…
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Jan 2012
Small and medium-scale farmers and agricultural producers are Paraguay's economic powerhouse, but their business growth has been constrained by lack of access to capital. Paraguay's first…
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Jan 2012
As global consumption of organic food -including organic sugar- has risen, so have prices and demand. Yet small Paraguayan producers in one of the world's main organic sugar production centers…
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Jan 2012
Corner stores in Uruguay¿s suburbs and outlying areas are crucial cornerstones of their neighborhoods, selling everything from tomatoes to toothpaste. But no matter how loyal their customers, small…
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Jan 2012
Large numbers of Nicaraguans have moved to urban areas over the past thirty years, building rough houses in spontaneous neighborhoods that lack roads, water, sanitation and energy. Nicaragua's…
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Jan 2012
Credit is the boost small and medium enterprises in Latin America need most. It gives companies that anchor distribution chains the opportunity to integrate small producers into the formal economy.…
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Jan 2012
Upwardly mobile Peruvians who want to invest in their children's education have few choices of private elementary and secondary schools that provide solid and modern academic grounding at…
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Jan 2012
Esta Nota no pretende hacer un análisis exhaustivo sobre las causas de la problemática de cobertura rural, sino más bien mostrar algunos de los aspectos a considerar en el diseño de nuevas…
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Jan 2012
Los Censos Nacionales Agropecuarios (CNAs), proveen estadísticas de gran importancia, en particular, para la toma de decisiones relativas al sector agropecuario y rural. El seminario ¿Compartiendo…
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Jan 2012
Guatemala podría estar aprovechando mejor el comercio exterior como factor de crecimiento económico. En la actualidad, el comercio tiene una importancia relativamente pequeña en la economía: el…
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Jan 2012
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Disconnected is a path-breaking analysis of the relationship between schooling and employers in Latin America. It is sophisticated in its design, using multiple surveys and multiple methods. It…
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Jan 2012
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Mediante el análisis de información de primera mano recolectada a través de dos grandes encuestas una sobre trayectorias y habilidades conducida en Chile y Argentina en 2008 y 2010 respectivamente, y…
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Jan 2012
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Desconectados abre um novo caminho de análise sobre a relação entre escolaridade e empregadores na América Latina. O livro é sofisticado em sua concepção, incorporando múltiplas pesquisas e vários…
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Jan 2012
The report is part of an initiative to map the transport data currently available within selected developing countries, looking to evaluate availability and quality of transport-related data in…
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Jan 2012
Este informe es parte de una iniciativa orientada a identificar los datos de transporte disponibles en un grupo de países en desarrollo, poniendo énfasis en las brechas de información que afectan la…
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Jan 2012
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El presente estudio analiza el crecimiento reciente de las exportaciones de bienes y servicios de Centroamérica (excepto México) y la República Dominicana durante la década de 2000, con vistas a…
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Jan 2012
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Este trabajo argumenta que la institucionalización es un fenómeno de equilibrio y que se asocia a mejores políticas públicas y mejores resultados en términos de desarrollo económico. Como soporte de…