This paper discusses the need for a Bank subnational development strategy. The subnational development strategy provides the Bank with a comprehensive framework to support borrowing member countries in their efforts to promote socioeconomic development through the devolution of responsibilities...

This paper discusses the need for a Bank subnational development strategy. The subnational development strategy provides the Bank with a comprehensive framework to support borrowing member countries in their efforts to promote socioeconomic development through the devolution of responsibilities...

This report raises a number of fundamental questions about the multidimensional and interrelated nature of social exclusion and moves beyond the traditional emphasis on outcomes and groups to view exclusion as a process that results from societal traits that limit the functionings of the...

Latin America suffered a profound state crisis in the 1980s, which prompted not only the wave of macroeconomic and deregulation reforms known as the Washington Consensus, but also a wide variety of institutional or 'second generation' reforms. 'The State of State Reform in Latin America' reviews...

This report moves beyond the conventional scope of economics to examine three entrenched structural factors -demography, geography and institutions- that are closely connected to economic and social development. Historical in nature and slow to evolve, these variables are not always in the...

Study on the characteristics of the remittance flow to Ecuador, the transfer of Remittances and the Banking System

La presente nota técnica analiza la política de vivienda de Chile, que ha sido pionera en adoptar un enfoque facilitador de los mercados de vivienda buscando movilizar los recursos de las familias y la capacidad productiva y de financiamiento del sector privado para resolver los problemas de...

A pesar de la impresión de que es más difícil ingresar en Estados Unidos después del 11 de Septiembre de 2001, los beneficiarios de las remesas presentan aun más probabilidad de abandonar México, implicando que la emigración y el envío de remesas son rasgos permanentes entre ambos países.

Grado de Adopción de las Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones (TICs)

The Bank expanded its housing finance activities in the 1990s, shifting its support toward sector reforms that increase the capacity of housing finance and delivery mechanisms to cater to the needs of low-income households. The present publication examines Bank experience in housing, draws...