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Jan 1999
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El costo del silencio es una colección de ensayos realizados por expertos internacionales provenientes de diversas disciplinas: desde psicólogos hasta doctores, desde economistas hasta comunicadores…
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Jan 1999
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Microfinance and Poverty probes a set of assumptions that have arisen about microfinance and poverty reduction and that have become the conventional wisdom, although they have not been proven. These…
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Jan 1999
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Microfinanzas y pobreza es una obra técnica en la que se analizan pruebas y estudios con el objetivo de determinar qué microempresarios podrían beneficiarse de la ampliación de las microfinanzas, de…
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Jan 1999
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Justice Beyond Our Borders looks at successful judicial systems and practices outside of Latin America that could serve as models for countries of the region. It examines large-scale judicial…
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Jan 1999
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El objetivo de este libro consiste en presentar, pragmáticamente, algunos de los esfuerzos de reforma judicial que han sido exitosos fuera de la región o más allá de nuestras fronteras, indicando qué…
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Jan 1999
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Financial Risk Management outlines how to implement an objective and systematic risk management program that allows for effective control and evaluation of operations. This comprehensive guide is…
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Jan 1999
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Este libro pretende ayudar a las entidades de crédito y empresas de América Latina a implantar un modelo sistemático, objetivo y homogéneo de gestión de riesgos, que permita evaluar y controlar la…
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Jan 1999
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Recognizing the need to improve the quality of financial disclosure by private sector firms in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Inter-American Development Bank sponsored a conference in…
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Jan 1999
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Reconociendo la importancia de las buenas normas de contabilidad y auditoría, el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo, junto con la Comisión de Normas Internacionales de Contabilidad y la Asociación…
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Jan 1999
La presente publicación es el resumen de un estudio sobre el impacto de los cultivos ilícitos entre las comunidades indígenas de Colombia. El trabajo analiza la realidad de los indígenas de Colombia…
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Jan 1999
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The book gives traffic engineers, planners, and managers a methodology to identify, analyze, and correct factors that cause traffic accidents. The procedures and materials required are of low cost…
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Jan 1999
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La publicación de esta obra pone a la disposición del público de habla hispana un documento de gran utilidad para reducir los accidentes de tránsito, que ya constituyen una de las principales causas…
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Jan 1999
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A Praz-nos publicar em língua Portuguesa uma obra que já demonstrou ser de grande utilidade para reduzir os acidentes de trânsito, uma das principais causas de morte no Brasil. Proporciona aos…
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Jan 1999
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While privatization of water, electricity, transport and communications infrastructure continues to gain momentum in Latin America, its success often depends on whether countries implement the…
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Jan 1999
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Latin America loses about nine trillion cubic meters of water each year, or some 30 percent of the water collected and treated for public consumption. While it is impossible for water systems to…
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Jan 1999
One-page 1999 map outlining remittance flows to Latin America and the Caribbean.
Date issued:
Jan 1999
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Financial turmoil is becoming a fact of life in Latin America. The 1990s have been characterized by enormous volatility in the magnitude and cost of capital flows. The correlation of capital swings…
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Jan 1999
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In this paper, social mobility is measured by looking at the extent to which family background determines socioeconomic success. An index of social mobility for developing countries is proposed based…
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Jan 1999
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This paper presents a rational political budget cycle model for an open economy, in which devaluations are delayed in the pre-election period so as to increase the electoral chances of the party in…
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Jan 1999
In the winter of 1996, Canada's third largest financial institution, the Bank of Montreal, launched a now infamous advertising campaign in which it asked the question: Can a bank change? While…
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Jan 1999
Governments in many countries -at all levels of development- struggle with increasing budget deficits and soaring national debts. Over the last century, government spending, as a percentage of gross…
Date issued:
Jan 1999
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The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the determinants of elderly health in the context of Mexico as a developing country and the relationship between health indicators and earnings in the…
Date issued:
Dec 1998
Este ensayo es el primero de una serie de estudios sobre la pobreza y las estrategias de reducción de la pobreza indígena que ofrece un insumo importante al documento formal de la estrategia del BID…
Date issued:
Dec 1998
IDB America reports on economic and social development trends in Latin America and the Caribbean and on the activities of the IDB. It is published 10 times annually in Spanish and English.
Date issued:
Dec 1998
BID América cubre las tendencias del desarrollo económico y social de América Latina y el Caribe y las actividades del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo. Se publica 10 veces al año en castellano e…