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Date issued: 10月 2011 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Moreno Mejía, Luis Alberto

This book takes a unique look at current economic and social development trends in Latin America and the Caribbean and the region's challenges for the future. The book's author, Luis…

Date issued: 10月 2011 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Moreno Mejía, Luis Alberto

Com um enfoque particular, este livro descreve o panorama econômico e social atual da América Latina e do Caribe e seus desafios para o futuro. Luis Alberto Moreno, Presidente do Banco Interamericano…

Date issued: 10月 2011
Author(s): Abedrapo B., Eduardo

Podemos definir un megaproyecto como un desarrollo público cuyas condiciones particulares lo tornan extraordinario en consideración a que requieren largos tiempos de ejecución, exigen presupuestos…

Date issued: 10月 2011
Author(s): Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade;Inter-American Development Bank

Jamaica's National Aid for Trade Strategy, Partnerships towards Sustained Economic Growth and Development through Trade, was prepared by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade with…

Date issued: 10月 2011
Author(s): Raw, Silvia;Sadeghi, Patricia;Ruprah, Inder J.;Sekkel, Julia;Sembler, Jose Ignacio;Vargas, Fernando

This evaluation examines the IDB's Country Program with Brazil for the 2007-2010 period. The evaluation found that the program with Brazil has been very relevant, because the IDB has been able…

Date issued: 10月 2011
Author(s): Raw, Silvia;Sadeghi, Patricia;Ruprah, Inder J.;Sekkel, Julia;Sembler, Jose Ignacio;Vargas, Fernando

Esta evaluación examina el Programa del BID con Brasil durante el periodo 2007-2010. La evaluación concluye que el programa con Brasil ha sido muy relevante debido a que el BID ha sido capaz de…

Date issued: 10月 2011
Author(s): Pires, Jose Claudio Linhares;Arráiz, Irani;Piza, Caio;Cravo, Tulio;Lodato, Simon

The objectives of the evaluation are to assess Opportunities for the Majority (OMJ)'s relevance vis-à-vis its mandate, its effectiveness in achieving development goals, its efficiency in…

Date issued: 10月 2011
Author(s): Pires, Jose Claudio Linhares;Arráiz, Irani;Piza, Caio;Cravo, Tulio;Lodato, Simon

Los objetivos de la evaluación son sopesar la relevancia de Oportunidades para la Mayoría (OMJ) en función de su mandato, su efectividad en el cumplimiento de sus metas de desarrollo, la eficiencia…

Date issued: 10月 2011 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Arbeláez, María Angélica;Steiner, Roberto;Becerra, Alejandro;Wills, Daniel

Using the 2003 and 2008 Quality of Life Surveys (QLS) conducted by the National Department of Statistics (DANE), this paper identifies the factors that affect housing tenure decisions in Colombia.…

Date issued: 10月 2011 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Garabato, Natalia;Ramada, Magdalena

This paper analyzes the determinants of housing demand for Uruguay and the extent to which housing policies have an impact on their target population. The paper first analyzes the determinants of…

Date issued: 10月 2011 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Amarante, Verónica;Arim, Rodrigo;Dean, Andrés

This paper considers the main institutional features of the Uruguayan labor market and its recent evolution, with a focus on unemployment. The main policies aimed at protecting workers against…

Date issued: 10月 2011 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Ronconi, Lucas;Colina, Jorge

This paper describes the reforms aimed at simplifying the administrative procedures for labor registration and the payment of social security contributions that were carried out in Argentina in 2005…

Date issued: 10月 2011
Author(s): Chrisney, Martin D.

Esta presentación aborda información sobre empresas, costos, incentivos y factores estructurales.

Date issued: 10月 2011
Author(s): Kohon, Jorge

Esta nota técnica aborda el tema de los ferrocarriles de América Latina y el Caribe en sus tres modelos de negocio (Transporte de cargas, de pasajeros urbanos y suburbanos -trenes de cercanías-, y de…

Date issued: 10月 2011 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Ronconi, Lucas;Colina, Jorge

En este documento se describen las reformas dirigidas a simplificar el registro laboral y el pago de contribuciones sociales implementadas en Argentina en 2005 y 2007. En base al análisis de la…

Date issued: 10月 2011
Author(s): Pedroza, Paola A.

El principal objetivo de esta publicación, es brindar en un solo documento, un resumen de las principales cifras del sector de microfinanzas de América Latina y el Caribe. Este documento contiene…

Date issued: 10月 2011
Author(s): Gutierrez, María Elena;Mommens, Xavier

Este estudio tiene como finalidad mostrar cómo los servicios de las microfinanzas pueden sufrir los impactos del cambio climático, analizar las oportunidades que se presentan para las instituciones…

Date issued: 10月 2011
Author(s): Economist Intelligence Unit;Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

En este informe se presentan los hallazgos del Economist Intelligence Unit tras analizar en profundidad el entorno de negocios para las microfinanzas en 55 países. El índice en el que se basa el…

Date issued: 10月 2011 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Devlin, Robert;Moguillansky, Graciela

This book is motivated by the emerging rehabilitation of industrial policies as a tool for supporting economic transformation and high rates of growth in developing countries. It argues that…

Date issued: 10月 2011
Author(s): Mesquita Moreira, Mauricio

China's meteoric emergence in the last decade and its profound impact on the economic performance of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has eclipsed the importance of the region's other…

Date issued: 10月 2011
Author(s): Mesquita Moreira, Mauricio

China's meteoric emergence in the last decade and its profound impact on the economic performance of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has eclipsed the importance of the region's other…

Date issued: 10月 2011
Author(s): Alvarez, Roberto;Benavente, José Miguel;Campusano, Rolando;Cuevas, Conrado

This paper compiles and analyzes several sources of information to shed light on the relationship between innovation and employment growth in the manufacturing industry in Chile in the last 15 years…

Date issued: 10月 2011
Author(s): Monge-González, Ricardo;Rodríguez-Álvarez, Juan Antonio;Hewitt, John;Orozco, Jeffrey;Ruiz, Keynor

This paper studies the degree to which innovation by Costa Rican manufacturing firms creates or displaces employment, how different innovation strategies affect employment, and how these effects vary…

Date issued: 10月 2011
Author(s): Aboal, Diego;Garda, Paula;Lanzilotta, Bibiana;Perera, Marcelo

The aim of this paper is to analyze the relationship between innovation and employment, in terms of both its quantity and quality, in Uruguay. The effect of product and process innovation on…

Date issued: 10月 2011
Author(s): Card, David;Ibarrarán, Pablo;Villa, Juan Miguel

The guide outlines the main evaluation challenges associated with Active Labor Market Programs (ALMPs), and shows how to obtain rigorous impact estimates using two leading evaluation approaches. The…

Date issued: 10月 2011
Author(s): Gutierrez, María Elena;Mommens, Xavier

The purpose of this study is to show how microfinance services may undergo the impacts of climate change, to analyze the opportunities available for MFIs and to propose concrete actions. This paper…

Date issued: 9月 2011
Author(s): Puerta, Juan Manuel;Almonacid, Monica;Corrales, Maria Elena;Alvarez, Lourdes;Ruiz, Nelson;Pardo, Alejandro;Gonzalez Diez, Verónica M.

This evaluation examines the IDB's Country Program with Haiti for the 2007-2011 period. IDB's strategic positioning in Haiti during this period was affected by the materialization of risks…

Date issued: 9月 2011
Author(s): Puerta, Juan Manuel;Almonacid, Monica;Corrales, Maria Elena;Alvarez, Lourdes;Ruiz, Nelson;Pardo, Alejandro;Gonzalez Diez, Verónica M.

Esta evaluación examina el Programa de País del BID con Haití para el período 2007-2011. El posicionamiento estratégico del BID en Haití durante este período se vio afectado por la materialización de…

Date issued: 9月 2011
Author(s): Chrisney, Martin D.;Kamiya, Marco

Este documento presenta una contribución al desarrollo de una herramienta de análisis de programas de desarrollo productivo (PDP). La propuesta metodológica del Mapeo e Índice de Desempeño…

Date issued: 9月 2011
Author(s): Roffe, Pedro;Genovesi, Luis Mariano

Este estudio tiene por propósito considerar la experiencia de un grupo de países en la implementación de los tratados de libre comercio (TLC) suscritos en años recientes con los Estados Unidos de…

Date issued: 9月 2011
Author(s): Montiel, Gina;Guerrero, Rosa Matilde;Solórzano, Lorena;Espinosa, Silvia;Zack, Guido

La Gerencia de CID ha dado la prioridad desde el 2009 a la Gestión de Cartera por Resultados a través de la Planificación Estratégica de los Proyectos. Se planteó como un objetivo fortalecer el…

Date issued: 9月 2011
Author(s): Bocalandro, Laura;Villa, Rafael

This technical note presents a blueprint for a Monitoring and Evaluation System for the Regional Public Goods Program. The blueprint took into consideration the improvements and continued…

Date issued: 9月 2011
Author(s): Antón, Arturo;Hernández Trillo, Fausto

The proposal by Levy (2008) whereby a universal social insurance (USI) scheme is guaranteed to all workers, regardless of formality status, aims at abolishing the current contributory social…

Date issued: 9月 2011
Author(s): Amarante, Verónica;Manacorda, Marco;Vigorito, Andrea;Zerpa, Mariana

This paper uses matched social security and program micro data from the Uruguayan Plan de Atención Nacional a la Emergencia Social to investigate the effect of social assistance on formal labor…

Date issued: 9月 2011
Author(s): Ávila Akerberg, Andrés

El presente estudio tiene como objetivo analizar y comparar la experiencia de México, Chile, Costa Rica, El Salvador y Perú en la implementación de las provisiones ambientales de sus TLCs con Estados…

Date issued: 9月 2011
Author(s): Zuñiga, Juan Luis;Staples, Brian Rankin

Este estudio abordará los desafíos y dificultades asociadas con la implementación y administración de las disposiciones sobre acceso a mercados, con especial énfasis en aquellas relacionadas con…

Date issued: 9月 2011
Author(s): Rucci, Graciana

La presente nota técnica presenta un panorama del mercado laboral chileno y su contexto a nivel nacional. Esta nota incluye un diagnóstico del sector, la programación del BID para el período 2010-…

Date issued: 9月 2011
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

This document discusses the basics on microfranchising. It reviews the concept and key elements, lessons learned from other regions, including the Grameen Bank. Finally, an agenda for the development…

Date issued: 9月 2011
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

El presente documento expone los principios básicos del sistema de microfranquicias. Se explican el concepto y los elementos claves, las lecciones aprendidas de otras regiones, incluyendo la del…

Date issued: 9月 2011
Author(s): Cuevas, Mario;Lée, Sigfrido;Bonilla, María Isabel

In Guatemala there are substantial and growing imbalances in the housing market; at the same time, financial markets remain shallow and underdeveloped. The analytical framework applied in this paper…

Date issued: 9月 2011 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Garabato, Natalia;Ramada, Magdalena

This document surveys the Uruguayan housing market, first describing the main housing programs and policies, then comparing their design with households' characteristics and needs. The document…

Date issued: 9月 2011 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Cesa-Bianchi, Ambrogio;Pesaran, M. Hashem;Rebucci, Alessandro;Xu, TengTeng

This paper investigates how changes in trade linkages between China, Latin America, and the rest of the world have altered the transmission of international business cycles to Latin America.…

Date issued: 9月 2011 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Martins, Bruno;Lundberg, Eduardo;Takeda, Tony

Despite a recent expansion in housing finance, Brazil still faces a severe housing shortage, especially among lower-income people, and it is important to examine the development, limitations and…

Date issued: 9月 2011 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Cristini, Marcela;Moya, Ramiro;Bermúdez, Guillermo

In the last three decades, the supply of housing in Argentina has not kept pace with demand. This study analyzes the main drivers of Argentina's housing market and relates them to the…

Date issued: 9月 2011
Author(s): Harbitz, Mia Elisabeth;Arcos Axt, Iván

This IDB technical note seeks to highlight the relationship that exists between a country's level of governance, the success of digital government strategies, and the identification policies…

Date issued: 9月 2011
Author(s): Duarte, Jesús;Gargiulo, Carlos;Moreno, Martín

This study explores the state of infrastructure in the region's primary education schools, using the SERCE database, and analyzes the connection between school infrastructure conditions and…

Date issued: 9月 2011
Author(s): Hoffman, Alvir

El presente estudio tiene como objetivo evaluar los impactos de la implementación en los países de la América Latina de las directrices divulgadas por el documento Basilea III: Marco regulador global…

Date issued: 9月 2011
Author(s): Vélez, Susana

Los Sistemas de Información Territorial (SIT) apoyados en los Sistemas de Información Geográfica (SIG) constituyen un soporte de gestión de la información y un excelente medio para la visualización y…

Date issued: 9月 2011
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

Given the contributions of the Development Effectiveness Matrix (DEM) and the self-evaluation system of evaluability, OVE can now move away from a wholly separate system of reviewing project…

Date issued: 9月 2011
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

Gracias a las contribuciones de la Matriz de Efectividad en el Desarrollo (DEM) y el sistema de autoevaluación de la evaluabilidad de proyectos, OVE está en condiciones de remplazar el sistema…