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Date issued: 1月 2003 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Attanasio, Orazio P.;Székely, Miguel;Behrman, Jere R.;Duryea, Suzanne

This book breaks away from the exclusively macroeconomic focus of development studies to bring the spotlight to the place where decisions are made: households. Complementing this microeconomic view…

Date issued: 1月 2003
Author(s): Bair, Sheila C.

US banks and credit unions are determined to have Latin American immigrants as important and permanent members of their customer base. Community groups, government, and US business interests are…

Date issued: 1月 2003 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Aldaz-Carroll, Enrique;Birdsall, Nancy;Castañeda, Tarsicio;Brundtland, Gro Harlem;Sen, Amartya;Urrutia, Miguel;Myers, Robert G.;Morán, Ricardo

Escaping the Poverty Trap proposes early childhood investment policies that could decisively change the prospects for the next generation of the region's poor. Contributors include Nobel…

Date issued: 1月 2003
Author(s): Ramírez, Juan Carlos;Ventura-Dias, Vivianne;Bárcena, Alicia;Lahera, Eugenio

In this book, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean draws upon the Latin American and Caribbean region's experience in order to formulate a historical and…

Date issued: 1月 2003
Author(s): Castro, Claudio de Moura;Bernasconi, Andrés;Verdisco, Aimee;Levy, Daniel C.;Gomes, Candido;García, Norma M.;Regnier, Karla;Caruso, Luiz Antonio Cruz;Tigre, Paulo Bastos

This IDB book includes presentations from the international policy dialogue seminar entitled "New Options for Higher Education in Latin America: Lessons from the Community College Experience.…

Date issued: 1月 2003
Author(s): Castro, Claudio de Moura;Bernasconi, Andrés;Verdisco, Aimee;Levy, Daniel C.;Gomes, Candido;García, Norma M.;Regnier, Karla;Caruso, Luiz Antonio Cruz;Tigre, Paulo Bastos

Los institutos técnicos superiores son instituciones educativas que ofrecen capacitación postsecundaria por medio de programas más cortos que los de las universidades. Este libro analiza las…

Date issued: 1月 2003 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Calderón, César;Chong, Alberto E.;Stein, Ernesto H.

Some key criteria in the optimal currency area literature are that countries should join a currency union if they have closer international trade links and more symmetric business cycles. However,…

Date issued: 1月 2003
Author(s): Devlin, Robert;Estevadeordal, Antoni;Taylor, Alan M.;Venables, Anthony J.;Adserà, Alícia;Boix, Carles;Laird, Sam;Messerlin, Patrick A.;Torrent, Ramón;Cremona, Marise;Mattli, Walter;Jordana, Jacint;Ramió, Carles;Narula, Rajneesh;Evenett, Simon J.

This book analyzes the role of trade as a central pillar of the structural reform process and a bridge to capturing the dynamic development forces of an increasingly globalized world economy.

Date issued: 1月 2003 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Universidad del Pacífico;Universidad de los Andes;Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

Esta investigación se plantea responder tres preguntas básicas. La primera busca identificar los factores más importantes en la atracción de IED y, en particular, explorar qué papel juegan los…

Date issued: 1月 2003 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Galindo, Arturo;Micco, Alejandro;Serra, César Manuel

Institutional and legal differences between countries increase entry costs and reduce the ability of banks to expand abroad. We use bilateral foreign banking data for 176 countries to estimate a…