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Oct 2006
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El presente estudio describe los Estudios de Gobernabilidad (EG), un instrumento desarrollado por el BID para el diagnóstico de la infraestructura institucional y las dinámicas de economía política…
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Oct 2006
Resultados de las Evaluaciones Tecnológicas
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Oct 2006
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This paper study the issue of institutional enforcement of regulations by focusing on labor-market policies and their potential link to economic performance. It test the different impacts of…
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Esta presentación fue comisionada por la Red de Desastres Naturales del Diálogo Regional de Política para la Reunión Subregional de los países andinos celebrada el día 25 de octubre de 2006 en…
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Esta presentación fue comisionada por la Red de Desastres Naturales para la Reunión Subregional de los Países Andinos celebrada el día 25 de octubre de 2006 en Cochabamba, Bolivia.
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Esta presentación fue comisionada por la Red de Desastres Naturales del Diálogo Regional de Política para la Reunión Subregional de los Países Andinos celebrada el día 25 de octubre de 2006 en…
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Esta presentación fue comisionada por la Red de Desastres Naturales del Diálogo Regional de Política para la Reunión Subregional de los países andinos celebrada el día 25 de octubre de 2006 en…
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Esta presentación fue comisionada por la Red de Desastres Naturales del Diálogo Regional de Política para la Reunión Subregional de los países andinos de la Red de Desastres Naturales celebrada el…
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In order to assist project companies in understanding and complying with labor requirements, the PRI ESU has developed the present guideline with three main objectives first, to educate and inform…
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An overview of the 2006 MIF survey of remittances from the United States to Latin America.
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Oct 2006
The Inter-American Development Bank's Multilateral Investment Fund began to intensively analyze the volume, transaction costs, and development potential of international remittances to Latin…
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Research on the impact of cash remittances on the developing economies of Latin America and the Caribbean countries.
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Oct 2006
The IDB works hand in hand with borrowers, project sponsors, and stakeholders to ensure that private sector projects financed by the Bank are environmentally and socially sustainable. By working…
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Oct 2006
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Globalization poses the imperative for firms to link with other actors and find new ways to interact and learn from the relationship. Employing original empirical evidence and featuring new case…
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Oct 2006
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The aim of this paper is to provide comprehensive empirical evidence on the relationship between international remittances and income inequality. In simple cross-country regressions we find a non-…
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This paper develops a model of sovereign debt where governments are myopic. Instead of focusing on the incentives to repay, as in most of the theoretical literature on the topic (which assumes…
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In light of the challenges to structure and develop bond markets amid changing environments, the Inter-American Development Bank set a project that aims to diagnose the current conditions for…
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The paper aims to be a useful analytical and managerial support tool for the debt practitioners and for the academia. It provides an appropriate approach for developing countries, and offers a…
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Oct 2006
Presentación comisionada por el Diálogo Regional de Política sobre el Cadastro Unico de Brasil, para la Reunión Subregional Centroamericana de la Red de Pobreza y Protección Social.
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Oct 2006
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What are the main issues in Chile's trade agenda? This paper argues that the country's agenda does not lend itself to that traditional kind of policy advice usually given throughout Latin…
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This paper analyzes the asymmetries and complementarities between Brazil's and China's agricultural sectors. Brazil and China are key players in world agriculture. Both countries are among…
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This paper surveys recent developments in the literature on trade facilitation, defined broadly as reform of non-tariff barriers. The paper looks at what trade facilitation is, why it matters, how to…
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The One Laptop Per Child initiative is an educational program that aims at deploying millions of rugged, ultra low-cost, individually connected laptop computers to the majority of children in…
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Regional co-operation has received very considerable attention as means of stimulating 'inclusive-growth' in DMCs. Conceptually such discussions can be seen as a part of the analysis of the…
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Presentación que ofrece información sobre los Servicios de Valor Agregado para las farmacias: Desafios estratégicos PROFORTE, esencia de la estrategia 2007 - 2009, focalización de la Estrategia y…
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This study undertakes a broad-based evaluation of public expenditures in Belize in order to identify ways of enhancing economic and social gains from public services. It reviews the budgeting and…
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Oct 2006
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This paper surveys the recent literature on the political economy of fiscal policy, in particular the accumulation of government debt. The authors examine three possible determinants of fiscal…
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Oct 2006
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The "Youth Labor Training Program" (Programa de Capacitacion Laboral Juvenil - PROJoven) is an ongoing job-training program created in 1996 by the Ministry of Labor (Ministerio de Trabajo y…
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Oct 2006
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This paper evaluates Proyecto Joven, a training program targeted to poor young individuals in Argentina. The authors used a non-experimental evaluation methodology to answer the following set of…
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This paper (RE-319) presents the evaluation of the Action Plan in support of private sector development in C&D Countries performed by the Office of Evaluation and Oversight. In this context,…
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El presente documento (RE-319) resume la evaluación de la Oficina de Evaluación y Supervisión del Plan de Acción para apoyar el desarrollo del sector privado en los países de los grupos C y D.…
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El presente documento investiga las posibles medidas que se pueden aplicar para reducir las pérdidas económicas resultantes de las amenazas naturales, y analiza los temas ex ante y ex post que…
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El presente boletín resalta los temas destacados de la reunión subregional andina de la red de pobreza y protección de 2006 realizado los días 28 y 29 de agosto en Bogotá, Colombia, la cual reunió…
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Resulta importante entender las reglas de juego que imponen los Tratados de Libre Comercio y conocer las capacidades institucionales, públicas y privadas, para lidiar con dichas reglas. Con ese fin,…
Pobreza y desigualdad en Chile: Antecedentes para la construcción de un sistema de protección social
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Este documento tiene como objetivo presentar la evolución de la pobreza y desigualdad ocurrida en Chile durante los últimos años y los desafíos institucionales de la política social que debe dar…
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Esta publicación analiza las actividades que realizan las empresas pertenecientes a cuatro clusters productivos en Argentina, Brasil, Chile y El Salvador y su grado de consecución de los Objetivos de…
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Oct 2006
This report (RE-318) details the evaluation undertaken by the Office of Evaluation and Oversight (OVE) of the Bank's Country Program in Suriname during the period 1980-2004. The purpose of the…
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Oct 2006
En este informe (RE-318) se detalla la evaluación de los programas de país del Banco en Suriname correspondientes al período 1980-2004, realizada por la Oficina de Evaluación y Supervisión (OVE). La…
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Sep 2006
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This is the latest version available of "Do We Know What Works": A Systematic Review of Impact Evaluations of Social Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean¿. The document reviews…
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Sep 2006
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En los próximos años, los sectores público y privado de Colombia enfrentarán enormes desafíos a raíz de la negociación e implementación de acuerdos de integración que alterarán profundamente el…
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Sep 2006
Esta presentación sobre el proyecto BID 1123/SF-HO describe los desafíos enfrentados desde la perspectiva de los beneficiarios, las lecciones aprendidas, los logros y los retos del área. El autor es…
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Sep 2006
This paper emphasizes that the label PPP (public-private partnerships) covers almost all arrangements, as there is always some private and public involvement. PPP is a continuum of options that…
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Sep 2006
This presentation discusses some of IDB's initiatives and instruments available to support the development of sustainable forest businesses in LAC. These include initiatives for improving…
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Sep 2006
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Este documento fue comisionado por la Red de Integración y Comercio del Diálogo Regional de Política para la VII Reunión Hemisférica celebrada los días 11 y 12 de septiembre de 2006.
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Sep 2006
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In this paper we explore a proposal to backload the phase-in of MFN tariff reductions in sensitive sectors and use the revenues generated to provide compensation for preference erosion. We argue that…
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Sep 2006
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Given its size, the pace of its expansion, and its outward orientation, China is likely to have a growing impact on the global trading system and its policies are likely to have an important…
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Sep 2006
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Reviving and completing the Doha Round will pose significant challenges for all the major trading nations in the WTO. This paper examines the causes of the ongoing negotiating impasse, and what needs…
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Sep 2006
This presentation was commissioned by the Trade and Integration Network of the Regional Policy Dialogue for the 7th Hemispheric Meeting held on September 11th and 12th, 2006. This presentation…
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Sep 2006
Esta presentación fue comisionada por la Red de Integración y Comercio del Diálogo Regional de Política para la 7mo Reunión Hemisférica celebrada los días 11 y 12 de septiembre de 2006. Esta…
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Sep 2006
La presentación brinda conceptos generales sobre la inseguridad ciudadana, una síntesis sobre el estado del arte, un panorama general y algunos rasgos del problema. Además se puntualiza el impacto de…