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Date issued: 3月 2014
Author(s): Ramírez Alujas, Álvaro V.;Dassen, Nicolás

The year 2013 has become known as the year of Open Government. The continuing progress of the Open Government Partnership represents the consolidation of a process that, in less than two years, has…

Date issued: 3月 2014
Author(s): Ramírez Alujas, Álvaro V.;Dassen, Nicolás

2013 se ha posicionado como el año del gobierno abierto. El progresivo avance de la Alianza para el Gobierno Abierto (Open Government Partnership) supone la consolidación de un proceso que, en menos…

Date issued: 3月 2014
Author(s): Multilateral Investment Fund;Ernst & Young

High-growth entrepreneurship has been demonstrated to be a catalyst for high socio-economic impact influence. Although just 5% to 7% of all American businesses are high-impact, these businesses…

Date issued: 3月 2014
Author(s): Fondo Multilateral de Inversiones;Ernst & Young

En la región de Latinoamérica y el Caribe, se conoce poco de los emprendedores de alto crecimiento y se conoce mucho menos de las emprendedoras cuyas compañías han logrado alto crecimiento: ¿quiénes…

Date issued: 3月 2014
Author(s): Bos, María Soledad;Ganimian, Alejandro;Vegas, Emiliana

En el 2012, ocho países de América Latina (Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, México, Perú y Uruguay) participaron en el Programa para la Evaluación Internacional de Alumnos (PISA, por…

Date issued: 3月 2014 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Steiner, Roberto

This Working Paper assesses the impact on investment of a reduction in corporate taxes and the impact on employment, labor formality, and growth of a reduction in non-wage labor costs in Colombia.…

Date issued: 3月 2014
Author(s): Nicaretta, Romina;Pombo, Cristina

The Development Effectiveness Overview (DEO) is an annual report produced by the IDB to show the results and impact of its work in Latin America and the Caribbean. It reports on the IDB's…

Date issued: 3月 2014
Author(s): Nicaretta, Romina;Pombo, Cristina

El Panorama para la Efectividad en el Desarrollo (DEO por sus siglas en inglés) es el informe anual del BID que muestra los resultados e impactos de su trabajo en América Latina y el Caribe. Reporta…

Date issued: 3月 2014
Author(s): Nicaretta, Romina;Pombo, Cristina

O Panorama da Eficácia no Desenvolvimento ( DEO, na sigla em inglês) é um informe anual produzido pelo BID para mostrar os resultados e o impacto do seu trabalho na América Latina e no Caribe. Ele…

Date issued: 3月 2014
Author(s): Fevre, Chloe;Buitrago, Paola;Tetreault, Alayna;Morales, Carlos;Delgado, William;Cruz, José Miguel;Dammert, Lucia;Garcette, Nicolas;Guerra, Nancy;Nazario, Olga;Rivera-Cira, Tirza;Cano, Ignácio;Soares, Yuri

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB, or the Bank) has been involved in citizen security projects for almost two decades. Since 1999, strategic Bank documents have highlighted the importance of…

Date issued: 3月 2014
Author(s): Fevre, Chloe;Buitrago, Paola;Tetreault, Alayna;Morales, Carlos;Delgado, William;Cruz, José Miguel;Dammert, Lucia;Garcette, Nicolas;Guerra, Nancy;Nazario, Olga;Rivera-Cira, Tirza;Cano, Ignácio;Soares, Yuri

El Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID o el Banco) ha participado desde hace casi dos décadas en proyectos de seguridad ciudadana. Desde 1999, se ha destacado en documentos estratégicos del Banco…

Date issued: 3月 2014
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

Esta es una compilación de 12 escritos publicados originalmente entre 2013 y 2014 en "Volvamos a la fuente", el blog de la División de Agua y Saneamiento del Banco Interamericano de…

Date issued: 3月 2014
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

One of the key strategic activities of disaster risk management at country level is the assessment of disaster risk. However, few methods allow analysis of the disaster risk for two reasons. One is…

Date issued: 3月 2014
Author(s): Ruprah, Inder J.;Melgarejo, Karl Alexander;Sierra, Ricardo

This report addresses several critical questions regarding Caribbean nations. Does size matter for economic growth and volatility? To what degree has Caribbean economic growth been inferior to that…

Date issued: 3月 2014
Author(s): Vena, Anne

During 2013 the IDB Cultural Center raised its international profile by dramatically increasing strategic partnerships and advancing the cultural and creative industries agenda.Cultural Development…

Date issued: 3月 2014
Author(s): Correa Aste, Norma;Roopnaraine, Terry

Los Programas de Transferencia Condicionadas (PTC) han sido reconocidos como instrumentos exitosos para mejorar los resultados de salud, nutrición y educación de las poblaciones en situación de…

Date issued: 3月 2014
Author(s): Correa Aste, Norma;Roopnaraine, Terry

Los Programas de Transferencia Condicionadas (PTC) han sido reconocidos como instrumentos exitosos para mejorar los resultados de salud, nutrición y educación de las poblaciones en situación de…

Date issued: 3月 2014
Author(s): Lendle, Andreas;Olarreaga, Marcelo

Technology made available by online markets has signifcantly reducedthe cost of entry into international markets for small and medium sized
firms, who can now reach far away consumers and…

Date issued: 3月 2014
Author(s): Martin, Xavier

The ProSavings Program, led by the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF), a member of the Inter-American Development Bank, promotes the development of business strategies that offer liquid and…

Date issued: 3月 2014
Author(s): Martin, Xavier

El Programa ProAhorros, liderado por el Fondo Multilateral de Inversiones (FOMIN) del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID), promueve el desarrollo de estrategias de negocio para ofrecer servicios…

Date issued: 3月 2014
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank;Gordon, Reena B.;Suominen, Kati

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are notably underrepresented in the external sector of Latin America and Caribbean (LAC), despite their importance in the regions economies: relatively few…

Date issued: 3月 2014
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo;Gordon, Reena B.;Suominen, Kati

Las pequeñas y medianas empresas (PyME) se encuentran notablemente subrepresentadas en el sector externo de América Latina y el Caribe (ALC), a pesar de su importancia en la estructura de las…

Date issued: 3月 2014
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desenvolvimento;Gordon, Reena B.;Suominen, Kati

As pequenas e médias empresas (PMEs) estão claramente sub-representadas no setor de exportação da América Latina e do Caribe (ALC), apesar de sua importância para a economia da região: relativamente…

Date issued: 3月 2014
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

The INTAL Monthly Newsletter reports on developments in integration and trade across Latin American and the Caribbean. It also serves as a forum for discussing the IDB's activities related to…

Date issued: 3月 2014
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

La carta mensual del INTAL informa sobre desarrollos en las áreas de integración y comercio en las regiones de América Latina y el Caribe. También es el medio para difundir las actividades realizadas…

Date issued: 3月 2014
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desenvolvimento

A carta mensal do INTAL informa sobre os desenvolvimentos nas áreas de integração e comércio nas regiões da América Latina e do Caribe. É também um meio de difusão das atividades do BID sobre estes…

Date issued: 3月 2014
Author(s): Tres, Joaquim;Wollrad, Kea;García, Luciana;Pascual, Ramiro;Shearer, Matthew

The Regional Public Goods (RPG) Initiative is the main instrument of the Bank for horizontal regional cooperation, creating development solutions that have the potential to improve the…

Date issued: 3月 2014
Author(s): Tres, Joaquim;Wollrad, Kea;García, Luciana;Pascual, Ramiro;Shearer, Matthew

La Iniciativa de Bienes Públicos Regionales (BPR) es el principal instrumento del Banco para la cooperación regional horizontal creando soluciones de desarrollo que tengan el potencial de mejorar la…

Date issued: 3月 2014
Author(s): Mercer-Blackman, Valerie;Seerattan, Dave

This policy brief defines the challenges of conducting appropriate fiscal policy over the past 20 years in four Caribbean countries (The Bahamas, Barbados, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago) and…

Date issued: 3月 2014
Author(s): Planas, Maria Elena;García, Patricia J.;Bustelo, Monserrat;Cárcamo, Cesar;Ñopo, Hugo R.;Martinez, Sebastian;Merino, María Fernanda;Morrison, Andrew

This study aims to evaluate whether health providers in Peru might be contributing to ethnic health disparities in the provision of family planning services, by comparing providers' adherence to…

Date issued: 3月 2014
Author(s): Queiroz, Cesar;Astesiano, Gastón;Serebrisky, Tomás

This paper reviews the current status of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) intervention on PPP in Brazil, including a stakeholders' survey on the performance of the Brazilian PPP program…

Date issued: 3月 2014
Author(s): Támola, Alejandro

This work summarizes the results from a series of papers prepared within the framework of the project "Credit, Formalization, and Firm Growth." Those papers were prepared to help inform the…

Date issued: 3月 2014
Author(s): Thomas, Chrystol

In this policy brief, we examine the current tourism product in the CARICOM member states with a particular focus on the economies that rely most on the industry. The analysis shows that the tourism…

Date issued: 2月 2014 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Urrutia, Miguel;Hofstetter, Marc;Hamann, Franz

After decades using monetary aggregates as the main instrument of monetary policy and having different varieties of crawling peg exchange rate regimes, Colombia adopted a full-fledged inflation-…

Date issued: 2月 2014
Author(s): Bos, María Soledad;Ganimian, Alejandro;Vegas, Emiliana

En el 2012, ocho países de América Latina (Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, México, Perú y Uruguay) participaron en el Programa para la Evaluación Internacional de Alumnos (PISA, por…

Date issued: 2月 2014
Author(s): Varsano, Ricardo

O Brasil introduziu o imposto sobre o valor adicionado (IVA) em nível estadual em 1967, o ICM, rebatizado em 1988 de ICMS - numa época em que a base das poucos IVAs existentes não incluía a prestação…

Date issued: 2月 2014
Author(s): Araujo, Erika Amorim

O objetivo deste trabalho é investigar o comportamento da cota-parte do ICMS distribuída entre os municípios de estados selecionados considerando sua evolução nos anos de 2002 a 2010. Foram…

Date issued: 2月 2014
Author(s): Grafe, Fernando

La gestión de la defensa jurídica del Estado está siendo de manera insistente el centro de atención en varios países latinoamericanos, debido a sus importantes implicaciones tanto jurídicas como…

Date issued: 2月 2014
Author(s): Institute for the Integration of Latin America and the Caribbean

The INTAL Monthly Newsletter reports on developments in integration and trade across Latin American and the Caribbean. It also serves as a forum for discussing the IDB's activities related to…

Date issued: 2月 2014
Author(s): Instituto para la Integración de América Latina y el Caribe

La carta mensual del INTAL informa sobre desarrollos en las áreas de integración y comercio en las regiones de América Latina y el Caribe. También es el medio para difundir las actividades realizadas…

Date issued: 2月 2014
Author(s): Instituto para a Integração da América Latina e do Caribe

A Carta Mensal INTAL relatórios sobre a evolução da integração e do comércio em toda a América Latina e Caribe. Ela também serve como um fórum para discutir as atividades do BID relacionadas com…

Date issued: 2月 2014
Author(s): Arretche, Marta Teresa S.;Schlegel, Rogerio

Este trabalho explorara o papel dos estados na federação brasileira com base em duas dimensões distintas: a autoridade constitucional dos estados e a avaliação dos cidadãos sobre a importância dos…

Date issued: 2月 2014
Author(s): Rodrigues Afonso, José Roberto;Figueiró Silveira, Ricardo;Silva Carvalho, Célia Maria;Klintowitz, Danielle;De Azevedo, Felipe

A agenda brasileira de propostas e debates sobre a reforma tributária gira há décadas em torno do imposto sobre operações relativas à circulação de mercadorias e sobre prestações de serviços de…

Date issued: 2月 2014 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Cornick, Jorge;Jimenez, Jorge;Román, Marcela

Public-private collaboration in productive development policy in Costa Rica frequently takes the form of policy co-governance: an autonomous institution in charge of policy for a particular economic…

Date issued: 2月 2014 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Eslava, Marcela;Meléndez Arjona, Marcela;Perry, Guillermo

This Working Paper analyzes the institutions that shape public-private collaboration for the design and implementation of productive development policies in Colombia. These policies are increasingly…

Date issued: 2月 2014 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Sola, Martín;González Rozada, Martín

Using a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with financial frictions, this paper evaluates the effects of a rule that incorporates not only the interest rate but also the legal reserve…

Date issued: 2月 2014
Author(s): Weisburd, David;Telep, Cody W.

This Technical Note suggests that the focus of policing should be on very small geographic units of analysis, such as street segments or small groups of street blocks. Crime at place is not simply a…

Date issued: 2月 2014
Author(s): Weisburd, David;Telep, Cody W.

El informe señala que el énfasis de la vigilancia policial debería centrarse en unidades geográficas de análisis muy pequeñas, tales como segmentos de calles o pequeños grupos de manzanas. La…

Date issued: 2月 2014
Author(s): García Zaballos, Antonio;González Herranz, Félix;Iglesias Rodriguez, Enrique

This discussion paper describes the methodology used to compute the Broadband Development Index (IDBA, Indice de Desarrollo de la Banda Ancha). The main goal of the IDBA is to size the Digital Divide…

Date issued: 2月 2014
Author(s): Martin, Dougal;Quintanilla, Giovanella

Esta nota técnica fue preparada para apoyar el diálogo entre el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID) y el gobierno de Nicaragua. Específicamente se la preparó como insumo para la elaboración de…