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due to differences in individual outcomes like education, health, labor situation and housing quality. …
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several decades. It is important to determine what needs to be done to absorb them into employment at rising levels of labor …
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In 2011 OVE began using the DEM and the self-evaluation system as a way to assess the evaluability of the Bank's portfolio by validating the DEMs of a sample of projects. The first exercise was used as pilot to set the standards OVE would use and to inform the Board and Management of the new...
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, both traditional and LAC-specific, including demographics, education, labor market, housing, and income. The indicators are …
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Quality of Life. It reviews the results of opinion surveys on education, health, and employment and finds that people …
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During the last decade, the IDB has strongly promoted an agenda to increase its capacity to report on results, with a particular focus on project evaluability. The first pilot exercise to validate the Development Effectiveness Matrix (DEM) of randomly selected projects began in October 2011. The...
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Given the contributions of the Development Effectiveness Matrix (DEM) and the self-evaluation system of evaluability, OVE can now move away from a wholly separate system of reviewing project evaluability (as was done in 2001, 2005, and 2009). OVE can move towards a system of continuous...
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We analyze the relationship between education and employment in Suriname, using data from a 2007 IDB household survey … (representative nationally and at the level of three macro areas: Urban Coast, Rural Coast and Interior). We find that education …, junior secondary, senior secondary and tertiary education increase the probability of employment by 12%, 19%, 86% and 84 …
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Although science has unlocked the secrets of the human genome, the causes of social and economic development remain stubbornly enigmatic. Why do some countries adopt new technologies more readily than others? Why does income inequality persist in some regions--even in the face of rapid economic...
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This document represents a contribution made by the Tripartite Committee comprising the Organization of American States (OAS), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) to the fourth Ministerial Meeting of the Pathways to...
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