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The structure of protection in developing countries
Balassa, Béla A. (contributor) - 1971
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000030079
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Multilateral Intermediation of Foreign Aid: What is the Trade-Off for Donor Countries?
Bobba, Matteo; Powell, Andrew - Inter-American Development Bank - 2006
Why would bilateral donors intermediate aid through a multilateral and not extend aid directly? This paper suggests a trade-off: multiple bilateral donors for each recipient may imply coordination and strategic problems but intermediating through a multilateral may dilute individual donor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010653675
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Multilateral Intermediation of Foreign Aid: What is the Trade-Off for Donor Countries?
Bobba, Matteo; Powell, Andrew - Inter-American Development Bank - 2006
Why would bilateral donors intermediate aid through a multilateral and not extend aid directly? This paper suggests a trade-off: multiple bilateral donors for each recipient may imply coordination and strategic problems but intermediating through a multilateral may dilute individual donor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009193714
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The Climate and Development Challenge for Latin America and the Caribbean: Options for Climate-Resilient, Low-Carbon Development Title: El desafío climático y de desarrollo en Amér...
Vergara, Walter; Rios, Ana R.; Paliza, Luis Miguel Galindo - Inter-American Development Bank
This book is a joint effort lead by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in collaboration with the Economic Commission of Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) focused on the climate and development challenge for LAC. It deals with a matter that is bound...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011249349
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Fisheries Management in the Galapagos Marine Reserve: A Bioeconomic Perspective
Conrad, Jon; Franklin, Henrik; Nøstbakken, Linda; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2006
Despite numerous efforts and a large investment by the Ecuadorian Government and the international community, fishery management in Galapagos remains highly conflictive and essentially ineffective. Levels of mistrust and lack of communication have eroded the governance mechanisms in place to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009205723
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Financing Biodiversity Conservation
Bayón, Ricardo; Lovink, J. Steven; Veening, Wouter J. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000
Financing the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity has been called one of the greatest challenges. At the … heart of this challenge lies the low financial and political value which is often assigned to biodiversity and the resulting … experimental financing mechanisms that can be used to encourage the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. To help to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009206124
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Rethinking Forest Resource Use Contracts in Latin America
Hardner, Jared J.; Rice, Richard - Inter-American Development Bank - 1999
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009206133
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Investing in Biodiversity Conservation: Proceedings of a Workshop
McNeelly, Jeffrey A.; Southgate, Douglas; Smith, David C.; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 1997
This document presents the proceedings of a one-day Workshop on Investing in Biodiversity Conservation held at the … the presentation of key topics on biodiversity financing by five leaders in the field. The second part of the workshop was … dedicated to a discussion and exchange of ideas on the role of the IDB in investing in biodiversity conservation. Three main …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216210
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Lessons Learned from Implementing the Sustainable Development Program in the State of Acre in Brazil
Dengel, Cristina; Horton, John - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
The IDB's strategy in Brazil seeks to promote and further the reform and modernization of the public sector, to support efforts to improve the competitiveness of Brazilian goods, to support the efforts to reduce social inequalities and poverty and, finally, to address the problems of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009350544
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Forest Vocation Lands and Forest Policy: When Simpler is Better
Nascimento, José Rente - Inter-American Development Bank - 2005
This paper addresses forest policies concerned with the adequate provision of forest related externalities. Despite the use of the forest vocation land (FVL) in the legislation of many Latin American countries, the discussion in the scientific literature about forest policies based on it is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009357919