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Honoring the Past, Building the Future: Fifty Years of Development in Latin America and the Caribbean Title: Celebrar el pasado, construir el futuro: Cincuenta años de desarrollo e...

Ávila, Ricardo - Inter-American Development Bank

Although science has unlocked the secrets of the human genome, the causes of social and economic development remain stubbornly enigmatic. Why do some countries adopt new technologies more readily than others? Why does income inequality persist in some regions--even in the face of rapid economic...

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Regional Public Goods: From Theory to Practice

Adhikari, Ramesh; Negroni, Mirka J.; Leino, Jessica; … - Inter-American Development Bank

This book is based on a conference entitled "Regional Public Goods and Regional Development Assistance", held in Washington, D.C. on November 6-7, 2002. It examines how the IDB and the ADB support the provision of regional public goods (RPGs) in Latin America and Asia, respectively. RPGs are...

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Barbados: Meeting the Challenge of Competitiveness in the 21st Century

Thomas, Desmond; Rojas-Suárez, Liliana; Poon, Auliana; … - Inter-American Development Bank

The material within these pages shows that Barbados, a Caribbean country with just over a quarter of a million people, embodies many of the classic vulnerabilities of an island with a small open economy, yet aspires to developed-country status, and is already well advanced on the road to...

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Justice and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean Title: Justicia y desarrollo en América Latina y el Caribe

Fix-Zamudio, Héctor; Benito, Elizabeth Odio; Bruno, … - Inter-American Development Bank

This book presents the proceedings of a seminar on the need for administrative, judicial and legislative reform in Latin American and the Caribbean, held in San José, Costa Rica, February 4-6,1993. Issues addressed include judicial management, training, and administration.Abstract: Esta...

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Austrian border regions and eastern integration: A low competitiveness - high growth paradoxon

Mayerhofer, Peter - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2002

Many regions on the EU Eastern borders have developed favourably after the opening up of the border and the implementation of association agreements with the CEECs. This was often seen as a positive sign for the further perspectives of these regions after EU enlargement. In this paper we take a...

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Regional Integration and International Trade in the Context of EU Eastward Enlargement

Paas, Tiiu - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2003

The paper aims to explore international trade flows of the countries involved in the EU eastward enlargement processes – the current EU members (EU15) and the candidate countries (CC12). The empirical results of the study allow us to conclude that the behaviour of bilateral trade flows within...

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The Impact of EU Enlargement on European Border Regions

Niebuhr, Annekatrin - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2005

border regions in the EU27 since they are likely to play a critical role within the spatial dynamics initiated by integration …. Departing from a three-region economic geography model we investigate whether changes in market access released by integration … result in above-average integration benefits in border regions. …

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Le système financier indien à l'épreuve de la crise

Ano Sujithan, Kuhanathan - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2014

emphasis on the recent turmoil period, it studies the question of financial integration in various markets: equity markets are …

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The Impact of EU Enlargement on European Border Regions

Niebuhr, Annekatrin - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2005

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Argentina's Distributional Failure: The Role of Integration and Public Policy

Gasparini, Leonardo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2003

have shaped Argentina's income distribution: deep macroeconomic crisis and periods of openness and integration. The sizable … integration. The depth and speed of the reforms and the absence of public policies to ease the transition contributed to the …

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