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Date issued: 10月 2006
Author(s): Montgomery, Robert;Brito, Elizabeth;Cardinale, Pablo;Felix Filho, Jose;Hoagland-Grey, Hilary;Monter Flores, Ernesto;Soler, Irene

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…

Date issued: 10月 2006 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Artola, Ner;Zepeda, Eduardo;Rabellotti, Roberta;Gomes, Raquel;Amighini, Alessia;Maggi Campos, Claudio;Villaschi Filho, Arlindo;Pietrobelli, Carlo;Cassiolato, José Eduardo;Parrilli, Mario Davide;Ruiz Durán, Clemente;Giuliani, Elisa;Lastres, Helena M. M.

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…

Date issued: 10月 2006 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): León, Gianmarco;Koechlin, Valerie

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-…

Date issued: 10月 2006 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Rochet, Jean-Charles

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…

Date issued: 10月 2006
Author(s): Le Grazie, Reinaldo;Fernandez, Jose Maria

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…

Date issued: 10月 2006
Author(s): Cosio-Pascal, Enrique

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…

Date issued: 10月 2006
Author(s): Claret Campos Filho, Antonio

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.

Date issued: 10月 2006 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Mesquita Moreira, Mauricio;Blyde, Juan S.

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…

Date issued: 10月 2006
Author(s): Jank, Marcos Sawaya;Yao, Shunli;Carter, Colin A.;Jales, Mário Queiroz de Monteiro

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…

Date issued: 10月 2006
Author(s): Dee, Philippa;Findlay, Christopher

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…

Date issued: 10月 2006
Author(s): Navarro, Juan Carlos

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…

Date issued: 10月 2006
Author(s): Khan, Haider A.;Weiss, John

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…

Date issued: 10月 2006
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo;Fundes Internacional

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…

Date issued: 10月 2006
Author(s): Glenday, Graham;Shukla, Gangadhar P.

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…

Date issued: 10月 2006 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Eslava, Marcela

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…

Date issued: 10月 2006 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Díaz, Juan José;Jaramillo, Miguel

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…

Date issued: 10月 2006 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Alzuá, Maria Laura;Brassiolo, Pablo

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…

Date issued: 10月 2006
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

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,…

Date issued: 10月 2006
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

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.…

Date issued: 10月 2006
Author(s): Miller, Stuart;Keipi, Kari

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…

Date issued: 10月 2006
Author(s): Rodríguez, Luz Stella

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…

Date issued: 10月 2006
Author(s): Tovar Díaz, Carlos

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,…

Date issued: 10月 2006
Author(s): Santibáñez, Claudio

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…

Date issued: 10月 2006
Author(s): Corral, Antonio;Isusi, Iñigo;Pérez, Timoteo;San Miguel, Unai

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…

Date issued: 10月 2006
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

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…