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Educational Indicators: What's to Be Measured?
Educational Indicators: What's to Be Measured?

Date issued: Jan 1996 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Vos, Rob

Currently, numerous strategies and new initiatives for improving quality of schooling at the primary and secondary levels are being considered and implemented, with strong support from multilateral…
Structural Adjustment and Poverty in Bolivia
Structural Adjustment and Poverty in Bolivia

Date issued: Jan 1996 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Vos, Rob;Lee, Haeduck;Mejía-Guerra, José Antonio

This document was prepared in the context of the Program for the "Improvement of Surveys and the Measurement of Living Conditions in Latin America and the Caribbean" (ISLC/MECOVI). Bolivia…
Financial Markets and the Behavior of Private Savings in Latin America
Financial Markets and the Behavior of Private Savings in Latin America

Date issued: Jan 1996 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Rojas-Suárez, Liliana;Weisbrod, Steven R.

This paper complements previous studies by arguing that the low private savings ratio in Latin America can be associated with the limited confidence of households and businesses in domestic financial…
Illegal Immigration, Border Enforcement, and Relative Wages: Evidence from Apprehensions at the U.S.-Mexico Border
Illegal Immigration, Border Enforcement, and Relative Wages: Evidence from Apprehensions at the U.S.-Mexico Border

Date issued: Jan 1996 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Hanson, Gordon H.;Spilimbergo, Antonio

This paper examines the determinants of illegal immigration in the United States from Mexico from 1976 to 1995. The main challenge in the empirical work is that the observations are not the number of…
Exchange-Rate-Based Stabilization with Endogenous Fiscal Response
Exchange-Rate-Based Stabilization with Endogenous Fiscal Response

Date issued: Jan 1996 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Talvi, Ernesto

In the context of a perfect foresight, intertemporal optimizing, cash-in-advance model, this paper studies the dynamics of an inconsistent exchange rate-based stabilization policy that fixes the…
Informe anual sobre el medio ambiente y los recursos naturales 1996
Informe anual sobre el medio ambiente y los recursos naturales 1996

Date issued: Jan 1996
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

Este informe anual sobre el medio ambiente y los recursos naturales examina la acción del Banco durante 1996. El Banco ha materializado su mandato en cinco ámbitos prioritarios de acción: préstamos a…
Algunas experiencias de apoyo a la microempresa: Síntesis de casos: Volumen 2
Algunas experiencias de apoyo a la microempresa: Síntesis de casos: Volumen 2

Date issued: Jan 1996
Author(s): De Alvear, Gonzalo;Gila, Javier;De Asís, Agustín

Esta publicación ofrece una breve síntesis de algunas experiencias de apoyo a la microempresa en las cuales el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo ha contribuido como catalizador. La intención ha sido…
Choices and Change: Reflections on the Caribbean
Choices and Change: Reflections on the Caribbean

Date issued: Jan 1996 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Birdsall, Nancy;Deosaran, Ramesh;Tincani, Amos;Suárez, Elena M.;Lewis, David E.;Bloomfield, Richard J.;Rajapatirana, Sarath;Serbin, Andrés;Henrikson, Alan K.;Skeete, Charles A.T.;Ross-Brewster, Havelock R.H.;Walch, Karen S.;Bloomfield, Steven B.;Dookeran, Winston C.;Meins, Bertus J.

Fourteen essays by experienced political leaders, researchers and scholars examine the political economy and international relations of the Caribbean. Strategies for sustainable development include…
Crossing Panama: A History of the Isthmus as Seen through Its Art
Crossing Panama: A History of the Isthmus as Seen through Its Art

Date issued: Dec 1995
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

Sixty-two paintings, sculptures, majolica and graphics from the pre-Columbian era through World War II; from Panama's Reina Torres de Arauz Museum of Anthropology, the Museum of Panamanian…
Haiti: A Bi-Cultural Experience
Haiti: A Bi-Cultural Experience

Date issued: Dec 1995
Author(s): Danticat, Edwidge

Edwidge Danticat (1969-), Haitian author of Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994), Pushcart Award (1995), and The Farming of the Bones (1999), American Book Award (1999).