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Atacando Pobreza: Evaluación del Programa Fondo de Inversión Social de Panamá
Marcano, Luis - Inter-American Development Bank - 2005
Durante la década de los noventa, los Fondos de Inversión Social fueron el mecanismo por excelencia para la entrega de obras sociales a poblaciones vulnerables en épocas de ajustes y crisis económicas. Desde entonces, los FIS se han convertido en instituciones con objetivos de más largo...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004998027
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The Economics of Natural Disasters: A Survey
Cavallo, Eduardo Alfredo; Noy, Ilan - Inter-American Development Bank - 2009
Catastrophes caused by natural disasters are by no means new, yet the evolving understanding of their relevance to economic development and growth is still in its infancy. In order to facilitate further necessary research on this topic, this paper summarizes the state of the economic literature...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008554074
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Climate Change - A Research Agenda for Latin America and the Caribbean
Chisari, Omar; Galiani, Sebastian - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
The objective of this research agenda is to outline the issues that need to be investigated in order to produce an informed assessment of what strategies and policies Latin America and its international organizations should pursue with respect to climate change. This report makes the three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008677813
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Inequality and social discontent : how to address them through public policy : economic report on Central America, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Mexico, and Panama
López Marmolejo, Arnoldo (ed.); Ruiz-Arranz, Marta (ed.) - Inter-American Development Bank - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013448199
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Reporte de resultados de las encuestas LAPOP 2008
Higuera Jaramillo, Lucas Felipe - Inter-American Development Bank - 2009
Las encuestas LAPOP (Latin American Public Opinion Project) son un instrumento útil y relevante en el análisis cuantitativo de las instituciones políticas y su relación con los ciudadanos de los países de América Latina y el Caribe. Este documento analiza las relaciones entre las...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005170389
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Inter-Fuel Competition in Electricity Generation
Bailey, Jed - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
This study compares the levelized cost of electricity generated with fossil fuels (including coal, natural gas, fuel oil, and diesel) and renewable or carbon-free energy sources (including hydro, wind, solar, nuclear and geothermal). A meta-study of power generation technology capital costs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010653447
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Rural Development from a Territorial Perspective: Case Studies in Asia and Latin America
Damiani, Octavio - Inter-American Development Bank - 2007
This paper reviews the contribution of agriculture and rural development to poverty reduction by examining the … transformation of five territories in four countries of Asia (Malaysia and People's Republic of China) and Latin America (Brazil and … Peru) that have experienced substantial reductions in poverty. While the four countries fall into three distinct groupings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009352065
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The Microeconomics of Changing Income Distribution in Malaysia
Fields, Gary S.; Soares, Sergei - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002
This study uses data from Malaysia's Household Income and Expenditure Surveys to quantify the importance of different … factors in accounting for the changes in Malaysia's income distribution between 1984 and 1989 ("Period 1") and between 1989 … factors accounting for rising mean income and falling poverty in the two periods. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009357907
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Latin America: the new economic climate : Madrid, July 21 - 22, 1992; [fourth biennial conference]
Iglesias, Enrique V. (contributor) - 1992
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000143757
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Modeling Public Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean
Giordano, Paolo; Watanuki, Masakazu; Lima, José Durán; … - Inter-American Development Bank
This book contains a selection of studies discussed at the first and second Regional Meetings on Computable General Equilibrium, which were held, respectively, in Santiago, Chile on 13 and 14 April 2007 with the collaboration of the Centre for International Prospective Studies and Information...
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