Good practices in targeting, as highlighted here, with an additional effort to go beyond the letter of the law in the identification of project beneficiaries. Effective and efficient targeting mechanisms attempt to better link the project's specific purposes with its intended group of...

This paper presents the principal issues related to socio-cultural analyses carried out in conjunction with IDB operations as a tool for maximizing project benefits to poor and excluded groups and for ensuring compliance with many of the Bank's safeguard policies. A companion manual to this...

This Country Program Evaluation (RE-355) analyzes the recent performance of the Bank's portfolio of operations. Two country strategies were approved during 2000-2008, which were prepared in two very different contexts in Brazil. The 2000-2003 strategy was prepared following the 1999 crisis that...

This report (RE-305) presents the evaluation conducted by the Office of Evaluation and Oversight of the Bank's program with Panama from 1991 to 2003. Its intent is to describe for the Bank's Directors the outcomes of the institution's activity in Panama and extract lessons that can help make...

En este número de Equidad se debaten la relación entre ética y desarrollo, y la necesidad de eliminar la corrupción en Latinoamérica; el impacto de la nueva economía basada en TI sobre la equidad en el mercado laboral y las implicaciones para las políticas públicas; la educación como...

The period reviewed by the current Country Program Evaluation (RE-328) covers from 2001 to 2006. It spans the Bank's latest programming cycle, which includes the end of the Carlos Flores administration, as well as the Ricardo Maduro administration. The current review's approach is to take the...

Este quinto número de Equidad hace referencia a las redes de protección social en los países andinos; a cómo mejorar las herramientas de conocimiento para la reducción de la pobreza y el crecimiento económico; y a los Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio en América Latina y el Caribe....

The proposed Operational Policy on Disaster Risk Management aims to provide clear directives for the Bank to ensure that its assistance supports proactive disaster risk management. It represents the Bank's continued commitment to protect and help generate economic and social development in the...