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Date issued: 12月 2004
Author(s): Caldés, Natalia;Coady, David;Maluccio, John A.

A common criticism of antipoverty programs is that the high share of administrative (nontransfer) costs substantially reduces their effectiveness. Yet there is surprisingly little rigorous empirical…

Date issued: 12月 2004
Author(s): Todd, Jessica;Winters, Paul;Arias, Diego

The net benefits of CAFTA and their distribution among sectors of the economy and social groups are major concerns of policy makers in Central America. The objective of the Bank's support to…

Date issued: 12月 2004
Author(s): Mesquita Moreira, Mauricio;Shearer, Matthew;Cornejo, Rafael;Harris, Jeremy;Winter, Lucas;Covarrubias, María de la Paz

Preliminary estimates by the IDB indicate that the growth of Latin American exports in 2004 will be the highest in the last two decades, reaching 23 percent.

Date issued: 12月 2004
Author(s): Vignoles, Christopher;Jessen, Anneke

Barbados is a small, open island economy with one of the highest trade/GDP ratios in the Western Hemisphere. Because trade plays such a dominant role in the Barbadian economy, it also substantially…

Date issued: 12月 2004
Author(s): Austin, James;Peinado-Vara, Estrella;De la Torre, Gustavo;Gutiérrez, Roberto;Tolovi, José;Pizzolante, Italo;Jones, Audra;Vives, Antonio;Lozano, Gerardo;Ogliastri, Enrique;Valenzuela, David

Proceedings from the II Inter-American Conference on CSR, celebrated in Mexico

Date issued: 12月 2004 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Márquez, Gustavo;Ruiz-Tagle V., Cristóbal

In this study, the authors use a newly developed panel data set for Venezuela in the period between 1994 and 2002 to analyze three basic questions. The first relates to the influence of personal…

Date issued: 12月 2004
Author(s): Vives, Antonio;Chong, Alberto E.;Strong, John S.;Guasch, José Luis;Benavides, Juan;Analistas Financieros Internacionales;Harris, Stephen;Cohen, Remy;Percoco, Marco

The 2004 IDB Infrastructure Conference Series included four major events that took place in Madrid (January 22-23), Washington, D.C. (February 19-20), Lima (March 27, during the Bank's Annual…

Date issued: 12月 2004
Author(s): Buvinic, Mayra;Roza, Vivian

Over the last decade, Latin America has witnessed unprecedented gains of more than 50 percent in the number of women in power. This paper explains these gains and discusses factors that fuel and help…

Date issued: 12月 2004 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Longo, Francisco

Esta presentación fue comisionada por la Red de Gestión Pública y Transparencia del Diálogo Regional de Política para la 4a Reunión Hemisférica celebrada los días 11 y 12 de diciembre de 2003. El…

Date issued: 12月 2004 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Longo, Francisco

The present work summarizes a set of reports which have had the aim of diagnosing the civil service systems of seventeen countries: Argentina, Barbados, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica,…