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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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Barbados: Meeting the Challenge of Competitiveness in the 21st Century
Rojas-Suárez, Liliana; Poon, Auliana; Thomas, Desmond; … - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010895474
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Unemployment in Bolivia: Risks and Labor Market Policies
Hernani, Werner; Villegas, Maria; Yanez, Ernesto - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
Nacional de Empleo de Emergencia (PLANE). It is found that unemployment as conventionally defined may not be the most important … unemployment scarring consequences are relatively low, labor market regulations and labor market programs do not help to increase …
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Socioeconomic status and mobility during the COVID-19 pandemic : an analysis of eight large Latin American cities
Aromí, J. Daniel; Bonel, María Paula; Cristia, Julian; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2021
This study analyzes mobility patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic for eight large Latin American cities. Indicators of … mobility by socioeconomic status (SES) are generated by combining georeferenced mobile phone information with granular census … data. Before the pandemic, a strong positive association between SES and mobility is documented. With the arrival of the …
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Poverty, Vulnerability and the Middle Class in Latin America Title: Pobreza, vulnerabilidad y la clase media en América Latina
Stampini, Marco; Robles, Marcos; Sáenz, Mayra; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2015
by higher income mobility, particularly upward mobility. These findings have important implications for the design of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011275115
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Towards a Latin America free of casualties due to lack of road safety: The case of Brazil. "An analysis of road casualties in Brazil focusing on road traffic conditions and road ac...
Resende, Paulo; Diez-Roux, Esteban; Mendoza, Sissi … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
As part of its Road Safety Initiative, the IDB is working with strategic partners to raise awareness about the importance of road safety during the UN Decade for Action for Road Safety 2011-2020. The IDB and Fundação Dom Cabral co-published this technical note to highlight the need for road...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010653104
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NAMAs in the Transport Sector: Case Studies from Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico and the People's Republic of China
Huizenga, Cornie; Bakker, Stefan - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
This report is adapted from the forthcoming Climate Instruments for the Transport Sector (CITS) report written by Cornie Huizenga, convener of the Partnership for Sustainable Low Carbon Transport (SLoCaT), and Stefan Bakker, from the Energy Research Center of the Netherlands. Under the CITS...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010655063
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NAMAs in the Transport Sector: Case Studies from Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico and the People's Republic of China
Huizenga, Cornie; Bakker, Stefan - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
This report is adapted from the forthcoming Climate Instruments for the Transport Sector (CITS) report written by Cornie Huizenga, convener of the Partnership for Sustainable Low Carbon Transport (SLoCaT), and Stefan Bakker, from the Energy Research Center of the Netherlands. Under the CITS...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009198616
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Towards a Latin America free of casualties due to lack of road safety: The case of Brazil. "An analysis of road casualties in Brazil focusing on road traffic conditions and road ac...
Resende, Paulo; Diez-Roux, Esteban; Mendoza, Sissi … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
As part of its Road Safety Initiative, the IDB is working with strategic partners to raise awareness about the importance of road safety during the UN Decade for Action for Road Safety 2011-2020. The IDB and Fundação Dom Cabral co-published this technical note to highlight the need for road...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009370995
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The Impact of Training Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Case of Programa Joven
Aedo, Cristían; Nuñez, Sergio - Inter-American Development Bank - 2004
This paper evaluates Programa Joven, a training program conducted by Argentina's Ministerio del Trabajo. The paper adapts and applies a non-experimental evaluation methodology to answer the following questions: (1) Did Programa Joven increase the labor income of the trainees? (2) Did Programa...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943918