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1月 2010
Investing in housing, healthcare, education, basic utilities and nutrition can not only fulfill a social mission, but it can also be a profitable business venture.This is the concept of IGNIA Fund,…
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1月 2010
El Fondo IGNIA apuesta en inversiones destinadas al sector de la población con necesidades básicas insatisfechas.Invertir en áreas como vivienda, salud, educación, servicios básicos y nutrición, no…
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Peru has one of the world's most sophisticated and effective systems of microfinance institutions in the world, serving many of the small businesses that constitute the economic lifeline for 70…
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1月 2010
El Perú posee uno de los sistemas microfinancieros más sofisticados y efectivos del mundo, atendiendo las necesidades de la mayoría de las pequeñas y micro empresas, que constituyen una fuente de…
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1月 2010
Microenterprise and small business companies account for 59 percent of El Salvador's work force and 49 percent of the nation's gross domestic product. Yet the vast majority of these firms,…
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Las microempresas y las pequeñas empresas representan el 59 por ciento de la fuerza laboral de El Salvador y el 49 por ciento de su producto bruto interno. Sin embargo, una amplia mayoría de esas…
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1月 2010
Throughout Latin America low-income neighborhoods have difficulty in paving city streets. Municipalities are typically short of funds, and many informal urban settlements have not yet been properly…
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1月 2010
En toda América Latina a los barrios de bajos ingresos se les dificulta pavimentar sus calles. Las municipalidades típicamente tienen escasos fondos, y muchos asentamientos urbanos informales todavía…
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The nongovernmental organization Global Partnerships is redefining microfinance. Moving beyond the concept of microloans as working capital, it aims to achieve greater impact in reducing poverty by…
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1月 2010
La organización no gubernamental Global Partnerships está redefiniendo las microfinanzas. Con un concepto del microcrédito que supera el de proveer capital de trabajo, pretende tener mayor impacto en…
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1月 2010
El Salvador has developed a unique and sustainable financial business model that enables low-income consumers to improve and expand their homes by mobilizing resources from both the public and…
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1月 2010
El Salvador ha creado un modelo de negocio financiero original y sostenible que permite al consumidor de bajos ingresos mejorar y ampliar una casa ya existente, movilizando recursos de los sectores…
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1月 2010
Small, family-run grocery stores, known as tiendas de abarrotes, are essential for supplying basic goods and services in thousands of low-income rural communities in Mexico.These stores are…
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1月 2010
Las pequeñas tiendas familiares, que solemos llamar tiendas de abarrotes, son esenciales para el suministro de bienes y servicios básicos en un sinnúmero de comunidades rurales de bajos ingresos en…
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1月 2010
Empresas Públicas de Medellín has experienced more than a half-century of solid financial growth and market expansion, becoming the second largest provider of electricity in Colombia as well as a…
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1月 2010
Empresas Públicas de Medellín ha experimentado más de medio siglo de sólido crecimiento financiero y expansión de mercados para convertirse en el segundo principal abastecedor de electricidad en…
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1月 2010
In 1993, a landslide and widespread flooding devastated the region around the city of Paute in southern Ecuador, taking lives and destroying property in its path. Out of a belief that the community…
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1月 2010
En 1993, un desastre natural causó un enorme deslizamiento de tierra y grandes inundaciones que devastaron la región del pueblo de Paute en el sur de Ecuador, causando pérdida de vidas humanas y…
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1月 2010
In rural Mexico, small farmers tend to grow staple crops like beans and corn, and sell them only in their immediate communities. With little accessto national supply chains or the working capital…
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1月 2010
En las zonas rurales de México, los pequeños agricultores tienden a cultivar productos básicos, como frijoles y maíz, y a venderlos solamente en sus comunidades inmediatas. Dado el difícil acceso a…
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1月 2010
This report summarizes the activities of the IDB Cultural Center in 2009. Throughout 2009, the IDB Cultural Center emphasized the Bank's four priority areas (water, energy, education, and…
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1月 2010
Este informe es un resumen de las actividades del Centro Cultural del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo en 2009. A lo largo de este año, el Centro Cultural del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo…
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1月 2010
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Early childhood development outcomes play an important role throughout a person's life, affecting one's income-earning capacity and productivity, longevity, health, and cognitive ability.…
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This book presents a set of studies on contemporary discrimination in Latin America that takes advantage of these new tools by focusing on social interactions that range from cooperation, group…
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1月 2010
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A growing number of cities around the world have established systems for monitoring the quality of urban life. Many of those systems combine objective information with subjective opinions and cover a…
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1月 2010
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This book has three main objectives: (i) discusses the main implications for the functioning of mandatory defined contribution pensions of consumers' inability to make rational choices; (ii)…
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1月 2010
The growth of economic migrants seeking better lives for themselves and their families has increased four times faster than the worlds¿ population. The information contained in this study presents…
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1月 2010
The Appleseed Foundation helps promote Center work, identifies and secures funding for projects, serves as a clearinghouse, and provides training and technical assistance to link Centers and allow…
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1月 2010
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Entrepreneurship contributes to a vibrant private sector and can stimulate broader economic growth. Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have experienced an important growth of…
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1月 2010
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Despite progress in communication technologies, lack of information still severely handicaps companies seeking to operate in international markets. Furthermore, the investments that these companies…
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This volume offers substantive clarification of the proper roles for public agricultural research and development (R&D) throughout Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and introduces an…
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1月 2010
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Over the past 30 years, democratic freedoms and competitive electoral processes have taken hold as never before in Latin America. How Democracy Works takes a detailed look, from an institutional…
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1月 2010
The volume Assessing the Effectiveness of Agricultural Interventions is the Special Topic for the Development Effectiveness Overview 2008-2009. The Special Topic provides an in-depth analysis of what…
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1月 2010
Development Effectiveness Overview 2008-2009 is a tool by which the IDB accounts for the effectiveness of its work. It reports on the progress made in the Development Effectiveness agenda of the Bank.
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1月 2010
This report provides the Bank and the public with an overview of the Office of Institutional Integrity's activities and findings during 2009. In 2009, OII completed its sixth year of operation.…
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1月 2010
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"La era de la productividad" describe de qué manera la baja productividad de América Latina y el Caribe impide que la región se ponga a la par de los países del mundo desarrollado. Los…
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12月 2009
El período que cubre el Informe MERCOSUR N° 14 (julio de 2008 - junio de 2009) estuvo marcado por la crisis internacional. La fase inflacionaria de dicha crisis -que se desarrolló entre agosto de…
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12月 2009
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Natural disasters are by no means new, yet the evolving understanding of their relevance to economic development and growth is still in its infancy. This paper summarizes the state of the economic…
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12月 2009
The goal of this market research was to determine the feasibility of promoting the use of remittances as a means to purchase clean energy. The project was designed to test the attractiveness to…
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12月 2009
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This paper examines the impact of trade policy on production specialization patterns in ten Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay and…
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12月 2009
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According to the economic theory and recent empirical evidence, improved market access through trade arrangements is likely to favor export diversification. In this paper, we assess whether this has…
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12月 2009
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12月 2009
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En este artículo se presenta una visión comparada de la formación de economistas en cinco países de América Latina. Para tal fin, se analizan la currícula, los libros de texto comúnmente utilizados,…
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12月 2009
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El presente documento es el manual instructivo del Sistema de Gestión de la Cadena de Suministro para los usuarios de la plataforma Proart Puno de la ONG Asociación para el Desarrollo del Entorno,…
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12月 2009
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We investigate whether greater microeconomic flexibility facilitates the process of creative destruction in the context of new trade models with heterogeneous firms (Bernard et al., 2003 and Melitz,…
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12月 2009
El estudio caracteriza el funcionamiento del mercado de crédito para la pequeña empresa en cinco países de América Latina y el Caribe: Ecuador y Perú (América del Sur), Guatemala (Centroamérica),…
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12月 2009
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Tax expenditures are generally defined as those government expenditures carried out through tax legislation, regulations, and practices that reduce or defer taxes for some taxpayers. There is a…
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12月 2009
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Los gastos tributarios son generalmente definidos como aquellos gastos del gobierno realizados por medio de disposiciones de la legislación tributaria, reglamentos y práctica que reducen o postergan…
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12月 2009
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Migration has recently taken an important place in the agenda of many governments around the world. But the phenomenon of international mobility of individuals is not new. Following Massey [2003],…