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Date issued:
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…
Date issued:
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…
Date issued:
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…
Date issued:
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…
Date issued:
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…
Date issued:
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…
Date issued:
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…
Date issued:
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…
Date issued:
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…