The objective of this report is to examine the extent to which countries in Latin America and the Caribbean participate in global value chains and what are the drivers of such participation. Production processes have been increasingly fragmented worldwide. For example, the production of the...

This paper exploits a rich collection of household surveys to investigate the wage differential between the public and private sectors in 17 Latin American countries during the 1980s and 1990s. The paper also studies how the sector of employment affects the gender wage gap. The paper finds very...

This study surveys governance issues in Suriname. It looks at the Constitution, the National Assembly, the executive branch of government (particularly the civil service and budgetary management), the justice sector, local government, civil society and corruption. The study concludes that...

Este informe tiene el objetivo de comparar y analizar la adecuación de los niveles de remuneración existentes para los dirigentes del sector público en diversos países de América Latina, además de discutir las reglas de formación de los salarios, las características de la estructura de...

Durante las dos últimas décadas, México ha vivido cambios profundos tanto en lo económico como en lo político. El giro hacia el mercado y el tránsito a la democracia han transformado aspectos centrales del funcionamiento del país y han generado, con ello, oportunidades y expectativas para...

The Bank has prepared a new set of strategies, presented in this volume, for the two overarching objectives established (Sustainable Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction and Promotion of Social Equity) and for each of the four priority areas highlighted in the Institutional Strategy...