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Date issued: 1月 2010
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

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…

Date issued: 1月 2010
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

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…

Date issued: 1月 2010
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

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…

Date issued: 1月 2010
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

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…

Date issued: 1月 2010
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

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…

Date issued: 1月 2010
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

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…

Date issued: 1月 2010
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

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…

Date issued: 1月 2010
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

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…

Date issued: 1月 2010
Author(s): Crespi, Gustavo;Navarro, Juan Carlos;Zuñiga, Pluvia

The advent of the knowledge society has highlighted the growing importance of innovation and intellectual assets as sources of competitiveness and long-term economic growth. This book examines human…

Date issued: 1月 2010
Author(s): Crespi, Gustavo;Navarro, Juan Carlos;Zuñiga, Pluvia

El advenimiento de la sociedad del conocimiento ha puesto de relieve la creciente importancia de la innovación y de los recursos intelectuales como fuentes de competitividad y de crecimiento…

Date issued: 1月 2010 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): García Moreno, Mauricio;García López, Roberto

La Gestión para Resultados (GpR) es una estrategia de gestión pública que conlleva tomar decisiones sobre la base de información confiable acerca de los efectos que la acción gubernamental tiene en…

Date issued: 1月 2010 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): García Moreno, Mauricio;García López, Roberto

Results-based management (RBM) is a public management strategy that involves decision making based on reliable information regarding the effects of governmental actions on society. It has been…

Date issued: 1月 2010 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Scartascini, Carlos;Stein, Ernesto H.;Tommasi, Mariano;Jones, Mark P.;Saiegh, Sebastián;Magaldi de Sousa, Mariana;Martínez-Gallardo, Cecilia;Zuvanic, Laura;Iacoviello, Mercedes;Rodríguez Gusta, Ana Laura;Monaldi, Francisco;Schneider, Ben Ross;Murillo, Maria Victoria;Schrank, Andrew;Hughes, Sallie

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…

Date issued: 1月 2010 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Alston, Julian M.;Sebastian, Kate;Beintema, Nienke M.;Hertford, Reed;Wood, Stanley;Wood-Sichra, Ulrike;You, Liang;Chan-Kang, Connie;Revoredo-Giha, César L.;Pardey, Philip G.

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…

Date issued: 1月 2010 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Vegas, Emiliana;Santibáñez, Lucrecia

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.…

Date issued: 1月 2010 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Gandelman, Néstor;Gandelman, Eduardo;Castillo, Marco;Cárdenas, Juan Camilo;Bravo, David;Sethi, Rajiv;Sanhueza, Claudia;Soruco, Ximena;Ñopo, Hugo R.;Rossi, Máximo;Elías, Víctor;Elías, Julio;Gaviria, Alejandro;Chong, Alberto E.;Polanía, Sandra;Petrie, Ragan;Piani, Giorgina;Torero, Máximo;Ronconi, Lucas;Rothschild, Julie;Urzúa, Sergio;Candelo, Natalia;Moro, Andrea

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…

Date issued: 1月 2010 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): van Praag, Bernard M.S.;Gandelman, Néstor;Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada;Ham, Andrés;Lora, Eduardo;Tetaz, Martín;Medina, Carlos;Sanguinetti, Pablo;Cruces, Guillermo;Piani, Giorgina;Alcázar, Lorena;Powell, Andrew;Núñez, Jairo;Ferre, Zuleika;Andrade, Raúl;Robalino, Juan;Madrigal, Róger;Hall, Luis J.;Morales, Leonardo

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…

Date issued: 1月 2010 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): García-Huitrón, Manuel;Impavido, Gregorio;Lasagabaster, Esperanza

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)…

Date issued: 1月 2010
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

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…

Date issued: 1月 2010
Author(s): Tromanhauser, Darcy

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…

Date issued: 1月 2010 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Ellis, Amanda N.;Orlando, María Beatriz;Muñoz Boudet, Ana Maria;Piras, Claudia;Reimao, Maira;Cutura, Jozefina;Frickenstein, Judith;Perez, Ane;De Castro, Orsi

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…

Date issued: 1月 2010 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Volpe Martincus, Christian

Despite progress in communication technologies, lack of information still severely handicaps companies seeking to operate in international markets. Furthermore, the investments that these companies…

Date issued: 1月 2010
Author(s): González, Mario;Maffioli, Alessandro;Salazar, Lina;Winters, Paul

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…

Date issued: 1月 2010
Author(s): Sitja Rubio, Susana;Linares, Ana María;Cruz-Aguayo, Yyannu;Meduña, Patricia;Winters, Paul;Toda, Ichiro;Neret, Matilde;Ibarrarán, Pablo;González, Mario;Rodríguez, César;Di Maro, Vincenzo;Díaz, Luis;Cossens, Shakirah;Mateo-Berganza Díaz, María Mercedes

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.

Date issued: 12月 2009
Author(s): Banque Interaméricaine de Développement