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Date issued: 9月 2011 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank;United Nations;Organization of American States

This document represents a contribution made by the Tripartite Committee comprising the Organization of American States (OAS), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Economic Commission…

Date issued: 9月 2011
Author(s): Luff, David

Trade agreements imply preferential trade treatment among the parties. As such, they must in principle meet the conditions of Articles XXIV of GATT and V of GATS. This means that an agreement must…

Date issued: 9月 2011
Author(s): Robert, Maryse

This paper draws on the experience of Mexico in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and on the experiences of four Latin American countries in the implementation of their services and…

Date issued: 9月 2011
Author(s): Saavedra, José Jorge

This presentation presents Compete Caribbean, which is a private sector development program that provides technical assistance grants and investment funding to support productive development policies…

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

This document aims to contribute to the development of a tool to analyze Productive Development Programs (PDPs). The methodology for mapping and measuring of institutional performance (MIDI, from its…

Date issued: 9月 2011 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Comisión Asesora en Alta Tecnología

This paper uses a randomized controlled experiment in Costa Rica to determine whether IB use by Banco Nacional de Desarrollo's micro and small enterprise (MSE) clients has an impact on their…

Date issued: 8月 2011
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

Con el fin de mejorar el entendimiento del riesgo de desastre y el desempeño de la gestión del riesgo, el Instituto de Estudios Ambientales (IDEA) de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, sede…

Date issued: 8月 2011
Author(s): Ludeña, Carlos E.;Netto, Maria

In order to understand the implications of GHG emissions reduction targets in the Brazilian economy it is important to understand the sector composition of these emissions in Brazil. According to the…

Date issued: 8月 2011
Author(s): Chávez, Jorge F.;Iunes, Roberto F.;Conroy, Hector;Ramos, Johanna;Cusato, Antonio;Fontes, Tatiani;Espinoza, Viviane

This evaluation examines the IDB's Country Program with Colombia for the 2007-2011 period. The evaluation found social investment and decentralization as two areas in which the IDB maintained…

Date issued: 8月 2011
Author(s): Chávez, Jorge F.;Iunes, Roberto F.;Conroy, Hector;Ramos, Johanna;Cusato, Antonio;Fontes, Tatiani;Espinoza, Viviane

La evaluación identifica la inversión social y la descentralización como dos áreas en las que el BID mantuvo presencia y relevancia durante este periodo. En inversión social, el BID se convirtió en…

Date issued: 8月 2011
Author(s): Ruíz Muller, Manuel

Este informe parte de los avances ya presentados en el documento "Implementación de acuerdos comerciales preferenciales en Latinoamérica: la experiencia peruana en su TLC con Estados Unidos de…

Date issued: 8月 2011
Author(s): Angel, Félix;Rossi, Cristina

This catalogue belongs to the exhibit that celebrates the 150th Anniversary of Italy's Unification. The exhibition includes a selection of art works by Latin American artists of Italian descent…

Date issued: 8月 2011
Author(s): Pedraza, Arturo;Rosas, Ramón

Con el propósito de mejorar el servicio de agua potable que se brinda a la sociedad de los países de América Latina, a través del desarrollo de una metodología regional de eficiencia energética y…

Date issued: 8月 2011
Author(s): Pedraza, Arturo;Rosas, Ramón

Con el propósito de mejorar el servicio de agua potable que se brinda a la sociedad de los países de América Latina, se ha desarrollado una metodología regional de eficiencia energética y…

Date issued: 8月 2011
Author(s): Pedraza, Arturo;Rosas, Ramón

Con el propósito de mejorar el servicio de agua potable que se brinda a la sociedad de los países de América Latina, se ha desarrollado una metodología regional de eficiencia energética y…

Date issued: 8月 2011
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

The 2011 second quarter edition of the Quarterly Business Review (QBR) provides management with a status of the Bank's performance. The QBR reports on outputs, lending program priorities and…

Date issued: 8月 2011
Author(s): Mesquita Moreira, Mauricio

La última década ha estado marcada por numerosas manifestaciones por parte de líderes brasileños y colombianos, en cuanto a la importancia y urgencia de la integración regional de los dos países…

Date issued: 8月 2011 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Outes-Leon, Ingo;Porter, Catherine;Sánchez, Alan

This paper examines the causal link between early childhood nutrition and cognition, applying instrumental variables to sibling-differences for a sample of preschool aged Peruvian children. Child-…

Date issued: 8月 2011
Author(s): Tomic, Esteban;Novoa, Rodrigo

Chile, hace ya más de tres décadas, optó por una economía abierta, competitiva y orientada al libre comercio, disciplinada en el acatamiento de las normativas internacionales y con una política…

Date issued: 8月 2011
Author(s): Castillo-Ruiz, Paz

Women account for 66% of the global workforce and earn 10% of the income. They produce 50% of the food globally and own 1% of the property. Besides, women represent the majority of the global poor,…

Date issued: 8月 2011
Author(s): Gayá, Romina;Michalczewsky, Kathia

La presente nota técnica examina el salto exportador del MERCOSUR entre 2003 y 2008. Más allá del boom de las materias primas presenta un detallado análisis cuantitativo de la evolución de las ventas…

Date issued: 8月 2011
Author(s): Muñoz, Rodrigo;López-Peña, Paula;Vivo, Sigrid;McCoy, Sandra

The study reports on a randomized trial of 1,200 young adults enrolled in an employment training program, to determine the most cost-effective and appropriate interview mode for measuring youth risk…

Date issued: 8月 2011
Author(s): Muñoz, Rodrigo;López-Peña, Paula;Vivo, Sigrid;McCoy, Sandra

Este trabajo busca contrastar la costo-efectividad de cuatro modos de administrar encuestas utilizadas para medir eficazmente los comportamientos de riesgo entre jóvenes. Se estudiaron dos modos…

Date issued: 8月 2011
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

This edition of IDEA draws from a forthcoming IDB book, Export Pioneers in Latin America, which analyzes a series of case studies of successful new export activities throughout the region to learn…

Date issued: 8月 2011
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

Este número de IDEA se basa en un libro del BID que saldrá próximamente, "Los pioneros de las exportaciones en América Latina", que analiza una serie de estudios de caso de nuevas…

Date issued: 8月 2011
Author(s): Mesquita Moreira, Mauricio

A ultima década tem sido marcada por crescentes manifestações por parte de lideres do Brasil e da Colômbia sobre a importância e urgência da integração dos dois países sul-americanos. O ex-presidente…

Date issued: 8月 2011
Author(s): Kugler, Adriana

This paper surveys the macro and micro empirical evidence on the effects of different types of labor taxes (in particular, payroll and income taxes) on firm performance and worker behavior. There is…

Date issued: 8月 2011
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

This documents contains Disaster Risk and Disaster Management indicators for Belize calculated according to the methodology developed by the Bank. This System of Indicators had three specific…

Date issued: 8月 2011
Author(s): Dengel, Cristina;Horton, John

The IDB's strategy in Brazil seeks to promote and further the reform and modernization of the public sector, to support efforts to improve the competitiveness of Brazilian goods, to support the…

Date issued: 8月 2011 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Arbeláez, María Angélica;Camacho, Carolina;Fajardo, Johanna

This paper explores the role played by policy instruments in access to housing finance by low-income households. It also analyzes the impact of housing credit and subsidies on both the quality of…

Date issued: 7月 2011 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Aterido, Reyes;Hallward-Driemeier, Mary;Pagés, Carmen

Seguro Popular (SP) was introduced in 2002 to provide health insurance to the 50 million Mexicans without Social Security. This paper tests whether the program has had unintended consequences,…

Date issued: 7月 2011
Author(s): Esmeral Berrío, Roberto

Esta presentación fue realizada en la 2ª Reunión sobre Cambio Climático del Diálogo Regional de Política realizada en La Antigua, Guatemala en Julio de 2011. El ella se discute el papel de las…

Date issued: 7月 2011
Author(s): Meirovich, Hilen

Esta presentación fue parte de la II Reunión sobre cambio climático de la Red de Cambio Climático y Gestión de Riesgos de Desastres
del Diálogo Regional de Política realizada en Antigua,…

Date issued: 7月 2011
Author(s): Colston, Josh

Effective coverage is a measure of health system performance that combines three aspects of health care service delivery into a single measure: need, use, and quality. In this technical note, the…

Date issued: 7月 2011
Author(s): Lora, Eduardo

This presentation, made during the event Development Connections Conference in July 2011 in Kingston, Jamaica asks how well investments in information and communication technology (ICT) work to…

Date issued: 7月 2011 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Lefort, Fernando;Vargas, Miguel

Given the numerous and widely acknowledged benefits of a well-functioning housing market, it is vital to understand the degree of competition in that market, which is the starting point for…

Date issued: 7月 2011
Author(s): Novoa, Raúl;Ketterer, Juan Antonio;Szarfer, Gabriela;Curat, Pablo;Gioja, Leonardo;Puerta, Marisú;Colabello, Carlos;Ramírez, Jorge;Prieto, Manuel;Sánchez Le Daca, Pablo;Matías Gago, Roxana;Lupano, Jorge A.

El presente documento se basa en la experiencia obtenida a través de la ejecución del Programa de Crédito para el Desarrollo de la Producción y el Empleo en la Provincia de San Juan, Argentina,…

Date issued: 7月 2011
Author(s): Parra Torrado, Mónica

El objetivo del presente documento es hacer un recuento de las políticas de incentivos tributarios existentes en América Latina y el Caribe a la luz de la experiencia internacional. Para esto se…

Date issued: 7月 2011
Author(s): Faguet, Jean-Paul

This paper brings the proposal for a second round of reforms aimed to deep decentralization in Bolivia to light for a wider audience, and informs and enriches the current debate within Bolivia on how…

Date issued: 7月 2011
Author(s): Feijóo, Erick;Cassar, Leslie;Luna, Jessica;Rebolledo, Andrés;Cornejo, Rafael;Lucenti, Krista;Corcuera-Santamaría, Sandra;Márquez Fariña, Manuel;Beitler, Ady;Eguíluz Zamora, Alejandra

The Integration and Trade Sector coordinated Bank efforts in LAC to respond to the joint WTO-OECD call for case stories in preparation for the Third Global Review of Aid-for-Trade. The IDB's…

Date issued: 7月 2011
Author(s): Yu, Bok-Keun;Miller, Sebastián J.

This paper surveys climate change funds related to LAC countries and attempts to derive some implications through performance analyses of these funds. The performance analyses show that the following…

Date issued: 7月 2011 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Kaplan, David S.;Sadka, Joyce

We analyze the outcomes of 332 cases from a labor court in Mexico in which a judge awarded money to a plaintiff who claimed to have been fired by a firm without cause. The judgments were enforced in…

Date issued: 6月 2011
Author(s): Engle, Patrice;Cueto, Santiago;Ortíz, María Estela;Verdisco, Aimee

El presente documento entrega el marco conceptual y la fundamentación del Proyecto Regional de Indicadores de Desarrollo Infantil (PRIDI), una iniciativa del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID…

Date issued: 6月 2011
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

Esta presentación de la división de protección social y salud del BID trata sobre el índice de servicios de desarrollo infantil temprano (DIT) y el impacto de los programas DIT. También muestra una…

Date issued: 6月 2011 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Velásquez, Liliana

Este documento aplica un método diseñado por el BID para el monitoreo de la calidad urbana que se basa en la combinación de dos enfoques: precios hedónicos y satisfacción con la vida. Esta…

Date issued: 6月 2011
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

Esta presentación muestra los resultados de la Octava Conferencia Interamericana sobre Responsabilidad Social en la Empresa, realizada entre el 24 y 26 de Mayo de 2011 en Asunción, Paraguay. En esta…

Date issued: 6月 2011
Author(s): Nakamura, Keisuke

Esta presentación realizada en el 1er Taller Desarrollo Económico Local - Región Andina en el encuentro de la Subregión Andina espera profundizar el intercambio de experiencia entre los ejecutores…

Date issued: 6月 2011
Author(s): Navia Díaz, María del Rosario

The Government of Guyana requested a loan in order to improve the provision of potable water in Linden through improvements in the water production facilities and reductions of NRW levels. Using…

Date issued: 6月 2011
Author(s): Blyde, Juan S.;Volpe Martincus, Christian;Becker, Sascha O.;Ekholm, Karolina;Chen, Lurong;De Lombaerde, Philippe;Flores, Manuel;Vaillant, Marcel;López, Andrés;Niembro, Andrés;Ramos, Daniela;Martínez Álvarez, Javier;Herrero, Daniel;Sequeira Picado, Jorge E.;Carciofi, Ricardo;Castillo Argañarás, Luis Fernando;Supervielle, María M.

Esta edición de la Revista Integración & Comercio está dedicada a examinar los factores determinantes y las implicancias de la fragmentación internacional de la producción, desde el punto de…

Date issued: 6月 2011 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): González Vallejo, Leticia

Este informe presenta la Evaluación Final del Convenio de Cooperación Técnica no reembolsable ATN/ME 9561-ME del programa ¿Desarrollo de Nuevas Oportunidades de Mercado en la Base Económica de la…