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Date issued: Aug 2001
Author(s): Wolff, Laurence;Castro, Claudio de Moura

This paper seeks to enlighten a complex and often polemical debate about public and private education. It argues that the distinction between private and public is less important than the rules of…

Date issued: Aug 2001
Author(s): Plant, Roger;Hvalkof, Soren

This paper has the following main objectives: to review the actual or potential impact of land titling and cadastre programs on indigenous populations; to recommend actions that would minimize risk…

Date issued: Aug 2001 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Jessen, Anneke;Katona, Andrew

This paper discusses Suriname's efforts in regional integration initiatives, starting in the 1990s. In the first section, the authors identify some concrete initiatives undertaken by Suriname to…

Date issued: Aug 2001 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Estevadeordal, Antoni;Devlin, Robert

Las fuerzas centrífugas de la globalización económica en los años noventa circularon paralelas con las centrípetas de la regionalización. Aunque aparentemente parecían dirigirse en direcciones…

Date issued: Aug 2001 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): González de Pacheco, Rosa Amelia;Gómez, Pável

Los eventos registrados antes de la crisis financiera venezolana de 1994-95, ponen al descubierto la activa oposición que puede enfrentar la supervisión y regulación pública de las instituciones…

Date issued: Aug 2001
Author(s): López Córdova, José Ernesto

Suriname gained autonomy from Holland in domestic affairs in 1955 and full political independence in 1975. "Self-sufficiency" -particularly in economic terms- became a strong motif in…

Date issued: Aug 2001 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Gilbert, Alan

INDES provides training programmes for public officials in Latin America and the Caribbean .Its current courses currently emphasize strategies for poverty reduction and the provision of social…

Date issued: Aug 2001 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Gilbert, Alan

El Instituto Interamericano para el Desarrollo Social (INDES) organiza programas de capacitación para funcionarios de gobierno en la América Latina y el Caribe. Estos programas enfatizan estrategias…

Date issued: Jul 2001 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Gaviria, Alejandro

This paper uses a new data set to study household responses to adverse income shocks in seven Latin American countries. The results show (i) that households respond to income shocks mainly by…

Date issued: Jul 2001 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Perfetti, Mauricio;Leal, Susana;Arango, Pablo R.

This paper will discuss the experience of two rural education models: Tutorial Learning System (TLS) and New School methodology for Post-Primary.