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Date issued: 3月 2013
Author(s): Conroy, Hector;Schijman, Agustina;Ramirez-Goldin, Ana;Palma, Alejandra;Ramos, Johanna

This Country Program Evaluation (CPE) for Belize: 2008-2012 is the third time the Office of Evaluation and Oversight (OVE) has evaluated the work of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB, or Bank…

Date issued: 3月 2013
Author(s): Conroy, Hector;Schijman, Agustina;Ramirez-Goldin, Ana;Palma, Alejandra;Ramos, Johanna

Esta Evaluación del Programa de País para Belice correspondiente al 2008-2012 constituye la tercera ocasión en que la Oficina de Evaluación y Supervisión (OVE) evalúa la labor del Banco…

Date issued: 3月 2013
Author(s): Morrison, Andrew;Vega, Gabriela

The main objective of this report is to outline the progress made in the second year of the implementation of the IDBs Operational Policy on Gender Equality and Development and its corresponding…

Date issued: 3月 2013
Author(s): Morrison, Andrew;Vega, Gabriela

El objetivo principal de este reporte es destacar el progreso realizado en el segundo año de implementación de la Poítica Operativa sobre Igualdad de Género en el Desarrollo del BID y su…

Date issued: 2月 2013
Author(s): Huneeus, Cristóbal;De Mendoza, Cecilia;Rucci, Graciana

En la presente nota nos enfocaremos en los aspectos de financiamiento y asignación de los recursos públicos en la capacitación de los trabajadores en América Latina y el Caribe (ALC). El buen uso de…

Date issued: 2月 2013 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Izquierdo, Alejandro;Loo-Kung, Rudy;Rojas-Suárez, Liliana

In recent years, and especially in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, a number of emerging market economies have been reforming their regulatory frameworks to adopt recommendations of the…

Date issued: 2月 2013 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Fernández Martín, Andrés;Herreño, Juan David

Financial crises in both emerging and developed economies have been characterized by large output drops and spikes in unemployment and interest rates. To account for these stylized facts this paper…

Date issued: 2月 2013
Author(s): Soares, Yuri;Gonzalez Diez, Verónica M.

This Final Report to Donors presents the findings of the Second Independent Evaluation of the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) conducted by the Office of Evaluation and Oversight (OVE) of the Inter…

Date issued: 2月 2013
Author(s): Soares, Yuri;Gonzalez Diez, Verónica M.

Este informe final a los donantes presenta los hallazgos de la segunda evaluación independiente sobre el Fondo Multilateral de Inversiones (FOMIN) realizada por la Oficina de Evaluación y Supervisión…

Date issued: 2月 2013
Author(s): Soriano, Alejandro;Schiavo-Campo, Salvatore;Puerta, Juan Manuel;Pires, Jose Claudio Linhares;Kavalsky, Basil;Elías, Carlos;Conroy, Hector;Alonso, Pablo;Vera-Cossio, Diego A.;Sembler, Jose Ignacio;Huppi, Monika;Beuermann, Diether

This evaluation assesses how well IDB's current mode of engagement meets the needs and expectations of countries that have relatively higher income levels and increasing access to diverse…

Date issued: 2月 2013
Author(s): Soriano, Alejandro;Schiavo-Campo, Salvatore;Puerta, Juan Manuel;Pires, Jose Claudio Linhares;Kavalsky, Basil;Elías, Carlos;Conroy, Hector;Alonso, Pablo;Vera-Cossio, Diego A.;Sembler, Jose Ignacio;Huppi, Monika;Beuermann, Diether

En esta evaluación se analiza en qué medida la forma en que actualmente trabaja el BID satisface las necesidades y expectativas de los países con niveles de ingreso relativamente más altos y un…

Date issued: 2月 2013
Author(s): Bezerra, Maria do Carmo

O tema "Requalificação de Áreas Urbanas" se apresenta como um tema emergente na carteira Procidades em execução até 2011, contando com apenas 3.5% dos investimentos. Apesar de sua…

Date issued: 2月 2013
Author(s): Bezerra, Maria do Carmo

O tema objeto de estudo, Preservação Ambiental e Implantação de Parques Urbanos se apresenta como demanda reduzida da carteira Procidades em execução até 2011, contando com 0,5% dos investimentos. A…

Date issued: 2月 2013
Author(s): Bezerra, Maria do Carmo

O tema objeto de estudo, Melhoramento de Bairros se apresenta como a maior demanda na carteira Procidades, em execução até 2011, respondendo por 43% do total dos investimentos. Importante esclarecer…

Date issued: 2月 2013 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Espino, Emilio;Sánchez, Juan M.

Providing unemployment insurance is particularly problematic in countries with high informality because workers can claim unemployment benefits and work in the informal sector at the same time. This…

Date issued: 2月 2013
Author(s): Wolf, Nick;Sanchez, Vanesa

Este documento describe la tercera edición de una herramienta interactiva e índice de clasifi cación que evalúa la capacidad de los países de América Latina y el Caribe para llevar a cabo…

Date issued: 2月 2013 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Cesa-Bianchi, Ambrogio;Rebucci, Alessandro

This paper develops a model featuring both a macroeconomic and a financial stability objective that speaks to the interaction between monetary and macroprudential policies. First, we find that…

Date issued: 2月 2013 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Guerrero Compeán, Roberto

Using data for all 2,454 municipalities of Mexico for the period 1980-2010, this paper analyzes the relationship between exposure to extreme temperatures and precipitation and death, as well as the…

Date issued: 2月 2013
Author(s): Ter-Minassian, Teresa

This paper focuses on options for reforming the Brazilian Revenue-Sharing scheme for the States, the so-called Fundo de Participação dos Estados or FPE, which constitutes one of the main…

Date issued: 2月 2013
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

Analiza el panorama macroeconómico y los flujos comerciales de los países del Mercado Común del Sur (MERCOSUR), además de los principales aspectos del proceso de integración del bloque, tanto en su…

Date issued: 2月 2013
Author(s): Rodríguez, Lorena;Netto, Maria;Serra, Lucila

El cambio climático no sólo está impactando severa e irreversiblemente gran parte de los ecosistemas globales sino que también impone cuantiosos costos económicos y sociales, especialmente sobre las…

Date issued: 2月 2013
Author(s): Rodrigues Afonso, José Roberto;Morais Soares, Julia;Castro, Kleber Pacheco de

Este trabalho faz um diagnóstico atualizado do sistema tributário brasileiro para subsidiar os debates dos técnicos, das autoridades e dos parlamentares em torno de sua reforma. Isto é feito a partir…

Date issued: 2月 2013
Author(s): Di Virgilio, María Mercedes

Este documento forma parte del módulo 1 del curso Participación Ciudadana en la Gestión Pública: enfoque y condiciones para su desarrollo. El presente módulo tiene por objetivo proveer una definición…

Date issued: 2月 2013
Author(s): Di Virgilio, María Mercedes

Este documento forma parte del módulo 1 del curso Participación Ciudadana en la Gestión Pública: enfoque y condiciones para su desarrollo. La presente unidad tiene por objetivos: reconocer a las…

Date issued: 2月 2013
Author(s): Di Virgilio, María Mercedes

Este documento forma parte del Módulo 2 del curso Participación Ciudadana en la Gestión Pública: enfoque y condiciones para su desarrollo. La presente unidad tiene por objetivo identificar y…

Date issued: 2月 2013
Author(s): Di Virgilio, María Mercedes

Este documento forma parte del Módulo 2 del curso Participación Ciudadana en la Gestión Pública. La presente unidad se propone identificar y caracterizar diferentes escenarios de participación a fin…

Date issued: 2月 2013
Author(s): Di Virgilio, María Mercedes

Este documento forma parte del módulo 2 del curso Participación Ciudadana en la Gestión Pública: enfoque y condiciones para su desarrollo. Esta unidad se propone proveer diferentes herramientas que…

Date issued: 1月 2013
Author(s): Ulloa, Alfie;Constrain, Silvia

The objective of the report is to present good practices in designing and introducing results frameworks for aid-for-trade projects and programs based on country defined quantifiable targets and a…

Date issued: 1月 2013
Author(s): Myers, Robert G.;Martínez, Arcelia;Delgado, Marco Antonio;Fernández, Juan Luis;Martínez, Adriana

En México, como en todo el mundo, se han producido cambios significativos que han supuesto una redefinición de roles e instituciones distintas de la familia - centros de cuidado, escuelas, centros de…

Date issued: 1月 2013
Author(s): Ducci, Jorge;Garcia Merino, Lucio Javier

La situación financiera de los entes que prestan los servicios públicos de agua y saneamiento en la región de América Latina y Caribe ha sido un tema de permanente preocupación de los analistas del…

Date issued: 1月 2013 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Rubio-Codina, Marta;Attanasio, Orazio P.;Meghir, Costas;Varela, Natalia;Grantham-McGregor, Sally

We study the socio-economic gradient of child development on a representative sample of low- and middle-income children aged 6-42 months in Bogota, using the Bayley Scales of Infant Development, a…

Date issued: 1月 2013
Author(s): Powell, Andrew;Tavella, Pilar

The December 2012 surveys of expectations for inflation and growth conducted by Central Banks with inflation targeting regimes continue to focus on 2012 and 2013 expectations. The weighted average…

Date issued: 1月 2013
Author(s): Garlati, Adrian

Climate change is changing the frequency and intensity of Extreme Weather Events (EWEs), particularly in poor developing countries, and the international community is increasingly suggesting the…

Date issued: 1月 2013
Author(s): Dixon, John A.

The expansion of project analysis to incorporate the environmental effects of a project is a direct descendent of the development of project analysis. Traditional project Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA)…

Date issued: 1月 2013
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

Between 1992 and 2012, the IDB Group approved 120 operations for Belize for a total of US$ 221 million. This publication provides some examples of the Bank's support to Belize, capturing…

Date issued: 1月 2013
Author(s): Galindo, Arturo;Rojas-Suárez, Liliana;Del Valle, Marielle

The importance of having in place a financial regulatory framework that includes macro-prudential regulations was fully recognized during the recent global financial crisis. A central lesson from…

Date issued: 1月 2013
Author(s): Velarde, Marco;Azuara Herrera, Oliver;Alonso, Pablo;Beuermann, Diether;Fevre, Chloe;Pecha, Camilo;Conroy, Hector;Sembler, Jose Ignacio

This country program evaluation (CPE) covers the 2007-2011 period. This evaluation pays particular attention to the relevance of the IDB's program in relation to Mexico's fundamental…

Date issued: 1月 2013
Author(s): Velarde, Marco;Azuara Herrera, Oliver;Alonso, Pablo;Beuermann, Diether;Fevre, Chloe;Pecha, Camilo;Conroy, Hector;Sembler, Jose Ignacio

Esta Evaluación de Programa de País (EPP) cubre el período 2007-2011.La evaluación analiza particularmente la relevancia del Programa del BID en relación con los desafíos fundamentales de México,…

Date issued: 1月 2013
Author(s): Pombo, Pablo;Molina, Horacio;Ramírez, Jesus N.

Los sistemas de garantía son instrumentos que tratan de mitigar las disfunciones que genera la exigencia de garantías a los empresarios en las operaciones crediticias. En este trabajo se diagnostican…

Date issued: 1月 2013
Author(s): Palacios, Jana;Flores-Roux, Ernesto;García Zaballos, Antonio

El objetivo de este documento es presentar un diagnóstico general sobre el estado del uso de las TIC en México, tanto en el contexto internacional cómo en relación a las brechas geográficas y…

Date issued: 1月 2013
Author(s): Giordano, Paolo;Harris, Jeremy;Ramos, Barbara

During the last decade the patterns of global growth have shifted, with the developing South expanding at a faster pace than the developed North. For countries in Latin American and the Caribbean (…

Date issued: 1月 2013
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

The 2012 Annual Business Review (ABR) provides management with a status of the Bank's performance. The ABR reports on outputs, lending program priorities, and organizational indicators on a…

Date issued: 1月 2013
Author(s): Armendáriz, Edna;De Michele, Roberto;Manzano, Osmel;Martel, Pedro

En Guatemala, el área rural ha estado significativamente rezagada con respecto al dinamismo del área urbana. Los déficits de capital humano y de infraestructura son más profundos, mientras que las…

Date issued: 1月 2013
Author(s): Gignoux, Jérémie;Macours, Karen;Wren-Lewis, Liam

Investment in land administration projects is often considered key for agricultural productivity and rural development. The evidence on such interventions is however remarkably mixed. This paper…

Date issued: 1月 2013
Author(s): Powers, Jennifer;Magnoni, Barbara

Supporting women's businesses has become a topic of growing interest to governments and mainstream development institutions in recent years. Declarations to address women's unequal access…

Date issued: 1月 2013
Author(s): Leamon, Ann;Garcia-Robles, Maria Susana;Lerner, Josh

Venture capital investment has been found to be remarkably effective at stimulating innovation and job growth. Government policy plays an important part in creating an ecosystem in which venture…

Date issued: 1月 2013
Author(s): Rodríguez Gómez, Diana;Harris- Van Keuren, Christine

This report details a comparative analysis of early learning guidelines (ELGs) for infants and toddlers less than 3 years of age in Latin America and the Caribbean. The 19 ELGs evaluated are utilized…

Date issued: 1月 2013
Author(s): Rodríguez Gómez, Diana;Harris- Van Keuren, Christine

Este informe presenta un análisis comparativo de las pautas para el aprendizaje temprano (de aquí en adelante PAT) de niños y niñas menores de 3 años en América Latina y el Caribe. Las PAT evaluadas…

Date issued: 1月 2013
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

The Caja de Compensación Familiar de Antioquia, Comfama, is part of a national Colombian network of private, non-profit entities funded by a 4% public and private sector payroll contribution with a…

Date issued: 1月 2013
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

La Caja de Compensación Familiar de Antioquia, Comfama, es parte de una red colombiana de entidades sin fines de lucro financiadas por un 4% de contribución de la nómina del sector público y privado…