This working paper contains a review and analysis of environmental policy tools in Latin America. It contains a review of the instruments themselves and their properties are discussed in both static and dynamic contexts. The report brings together the institutional and more narrowly economic...

This study challenges the current design of forest resource use contracts in Latin America. Radical rethinking of forest resource contracts is imperative, due to the constraints that now face the successful achievement of forest policy objectives of economic development and conservation of...

This paper (ENV-126) was originally presented at a National Science Foundation Workshop on Alternatives to Traditional Contingent Valuation Methods in Environmental Valuation, held at Vanderbilt University, Nashville Tennessee, on October 15-16, 1998. This paper reviews the past ten years of the...

Esta es la última versión del presente documento, el cual fue comisionado por la Red de Medio Ambiente del Diálogo Regional de Política para la Reunión Subregional de los Países Andinos celebrada el día 14 de febrero de 2006 en Lima, Perú. El objetivo de este informe es identificar si...

Esta es la última versión disponible del presente documento en el cual se destaca de manera explícita el conjunto de oportunidades y responsabilidades que tiene el sector público para facilitar el diseño y la implementación de mecanismos de financiamiento para la provisión de productos...

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...

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...

This paper describes the conditions necessary to harmonize project objectives with the conservation of freshwater ecosystems. It also provides information on how to incorporate freshwater ecosystem biodiversity, function, and services with water development projects. One sections of the papers...

This working paper concerns the estimation of benefits used in the evaluation of development projects, especially those within public facilities or environmental projects. The estimation of benefits uses a variety of techniques, both contingent valuation and behavioral techniques. Benefit...