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Competitiveness: The Business of Growth Title: Competitividad: el motor del crecimiento
Galindo, Arturo José; Kapsoli, Javier; Márquez, Gustavo; … - Inter-American Development Bank
Competing in the world economy does not automatically boost a nation's productivity and restructure its economy. Such … strategies to increase productivity and improve access by businesses to productive resources.Abstract: Participar en la economía …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943460
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Competitiveness: The Business of Growth Title: Competitividad: el motor del crecimiento
Kapsoli, Javier; Galindo, Arturo; Márquez, Gustavo; … - Inter-American Development Bank
Competing in the world economy does not automatically boost a nation's productivity and restructure its economy. Such … strategies to increase productivity and improve access by businesses to productive resources.Abstract: Participar en la economía …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010895466
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Optimal Adaptation and Mitigation to Climate Change in Small Environmental Economies
Miller, Sebastian; Chisari, Omar; Galiani, Sebastian - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
This paper compares the optimal dynamic choices between policies of mitigation and adaptation for three economies: Brazil, Chile and the United States. The focus is on the optimal role of mitigation and adaptation for “environmentally small economies,” i. e. , economies that are witnessing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010721389
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Luz para las comunidades de la Chiquitania : los beneficios de la electrificación rural con energía renovable en Bolivia
Ballón, Sergio; Román, Soraya; Antonio, Katherine M.; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012154409
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Market or State?: Three Decades of Reform in the Latin American Electric Power Industry Title: Entre el mercado y el Estado: Tres décadas de reformas en el sector eléctrico de Amér...
Millán, Jaime - Inter-American Development Bank
The history of the electric power industry in Latin America has been a continuous search for a formula that would yield a reliable and efficient service, accessible to all. By recognizing the difficulties encountered in the last three decades in implementing all types of models, Market or State?...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943510
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Provision of Public Services and Welfare of the Poor: Learning from an Incomplete Electricity Privatization Process in Rural Peru
Alcázar, Lorena; Nakasone, Eduardo; Torero, Máximo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2007
public versus private provision. The results in this paper suggest that management of electricity firms by the private sector … leads to a significant improvement in the quality of the provision of electricity. These improvements in quality and supply … of electricity provision yield some efficiency gains in terms of the time allocation of the working labor force that can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943900
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Are Environmental Taxes Affected by Legislatures' Ideological Positions?
Miller, Sebastian; Vela, Mauricio A. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
Environmental taxes have been discussed as one of the main mechanisms to deal with environmental problems. Nonetheless, instruments of this type have rarely been implemented, and the adoption of new or higher environmental taxes has faced resistance in some countries. The purpose of this work is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944286
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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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Post-Privatization Renegotiation and Disputes in Chile
Basañes, C. Federico; Saavedra, Eduardo; Soto, Raimundo - Inter-American Development Bank - 1999
taken place in Chile since the late 1980s in the electricity sector. This sector was chosen because the privatization …. The paper also assesses how lessons learned in the reform of electricity were internalized in the design of the regulatory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294042
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Power Sector Reform in Latin America: Accomplishments, Failures and Challenges
Millán, Jaime - Inter-American Development Bank - 2006
In this technical paper, the author addresses pertinent issues that affect reform in the power sector and the status of current efforts. The objective of the paper is such: 1) It explains the difficulties in achieving a separation of the roles of the State in an environment in which it continues...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009322766