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Date issued: May 2006
Author(s): Millán, Jaime

In this technical paper, the author addresses pertinent issues that affect reform in the power sector and the status of current efforts. The objective of the paper is such: 1) It explains the…

Date issued: May 2006
Author(s): Llisterri, Juan J.;Kantis, Hugo;Angelelli, Pablo;Tejerina, Luis

This paper highlights the importance of youth entrepreneurship in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as the challenges and opportunities faced by young entrepreneurs. The authors analyze the…

Date issued: May 2006 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Bonet, Antonio

Este documento fue comisionado por la Red de Integración y Comercio del Diálogo Regional de Política para la Reunión Subregional de Centro América que será celebrada el día 8 de noviembre de 2006 en…

Date issued: May 2006 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Coviello, Decio;Bobba, Matteo

Is there any relation between education and democracy? Once we correct for weak instruments and identify education as "weakly exogenous" we find new
evidence that education…

Date issued: May 2006 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): González Rozada, Martín;Levy Yeyati, Eduardo

This paper shows that a large fraction of the variability of emerging market bond spreads is explained by the evolution of global factors such as risk appetite (as reflected in the spread of high…

Date issued: May 2006
Author(s): Rodríguez, Ennio;Agosin, Manuel R.

En enero de 2004, los países de América Central concluyeron las negociaciones con Estados Unidos para la firma del Tratado de Libre Comercio: el Acuerdo de Libre Comercio Centroamericano (Central…

Date issued: May 2006
Author(s): Stern, Peter A.

This paper is based on the premise that investment in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has a positive impact on economic development because of its contribution to growth and labor…

Date issued: May 2006
Author(s): Conrad, Jon;Franklin, Henrik;Nøstbakken, Linda;Stone, Steven;Viteri, César

Despite numerous efforts and a large investment by the Ecuadorian Government and the international community, fishery management in Galapagos remains highly conflictive and essentially ineffective.…

Date issued: May 2006
Author(s): Jul, Ana María

This presentation was commissioned by the Public Management and Transparency Network of the Regional Policy Dialogue for the 7th Hemispheric Meeting celebrated on May 8th and 9th, 2006. The purpose…

Date issued: May 2006 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Calderón Madrid, Angel

Data sets used for evaluations in developing countries do not lend themselves to measuring the impact of training programs on the re-employment dynamics of trainees. An exception is a data set…