The country studies and their background papers included in this book were prepared for the Latin America and the Caribbean section of the "Global Research Project: Explaining Growth" of the Global Development Network (GDN), a research effort conducted in association with the Latin American and...

The country studies and their background papers included in this book were prepared for the Latin America and the Caribbean section of the "Global Research Project: Explaining Growth" of the Global Development Network (GDN), a research effort conducted in association with the Latin American and...

Competing in the world economy does not automatically boost a nation's productivity and restructure its economy. Such progress requires mobilizing capital, employment, technology and knowledge. Opportunities beyond the business realm must be fully exploited to the benfit of society as a whole....

This report (RE-259) presents the Office of Evaluation and Oversight's evaluation of the Bank's program with Mexico from 1990 to 2000. This evaluation is based on the standard evaluative criteria adopted by the Evaluation Cooperation Group of the multilateral development banks: relevance,...

This Country Program Evaluation with the Dominican Republic (RE-371) covers the period from 2004 to 2008 and it's the second evaluation by the Office of Evaluation and Oversight (OVE) of the IDB's programming with the country. The analysis of the strategic relationship established by the Bank...

This is the latest version available of this document. The study states that perhaps the core problem and challenge for Central American economic recovery is the regions' high cost of energy. The inordinately high energy cost structure for the nations of Central America is caused in part by the...