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The Impact of Receiving Price and Climate Information in the Agricultural Sector
Camacho, Adriana; Conover, Emily - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
Previous studies indicate that Colombian farmers make production decisions based on informal sources of information, such as family and neighbors or tradition. In this paper the authors randomize recipients of price and weather information using text messages (SMS technology). The authors find...
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Empowering IDPs with SMS: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Bogota
Blanco, Mariana; Vargas, Juan F. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
This paper studied whether the use of short message service (SMS) technology effectively informed Bogota's population of internally displaced persons (IDPs) about its eligibility to receive social benefits. Half of the sample population was randomly informed of their eligibility via SMS and...
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The Environmental and Social Impacts of Major IDB-Financed Road Improvement Projects: The Interoceanica IIRSA Sur and IIRSA Norte Highways in Peru
Redwood, John - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
The Environment and Safeguards Group (ESG) of the IDB has examined how potential environmental and social risks of major Bank-supported road improvement investments in natural resource rich and socio-culturally diverse "frontier" regions have been identified and addressed in various parts of...
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The Benefits of Logistics Investments: Opportunities for Latin America and the Caribbean
Rodrigue, Jean-Paul - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
economic development. As such, the provision of transport infrastructures is a common priority in capital investment … / hinterland supply chains in which the setting of logistics zones, transport and logistics corridors and inland ports provide a … salient example of the multiplying effects of transport infrastructure and freight logistics investments. …
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Managing the Environmental and Social Impacts of Major Road Investments in Frontier Regions: Lessons from the Inter-American Development Bank's Experience
Redwood, John - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
completed and ongoing Bank-supported projects in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Panama and Peru. In doing so, experience and lessons …
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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...
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Assessment of Transport Data Availability and Quality in Latin America
Barbero, José A.; Uechi, Luis - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
The report is part of an initiative to map the transport data currently available within selected developing countries …, looking to evaluate availability and quality of transport-related data in general, and particularly for information gaps … affecting estimation of Greenhouse Gas emissions. The assessment of transport data availability and quality is performed by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010653341
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Managing the Environmental and Social Impacts of a Major IDB-Financed Road Improvement Project in Colombia: The Case of the Pasto-Mocoa Highway
Redwood, John - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
and recommendations for selected ongoing and/or completed IDB-financed road and road related projects in Colombia. To the …
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Managing the Environmental and Social Impacts of a Major IDB Financed Road Improvement Project in Panama: The Case of Darién
Redwood, John - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
The Environment and Safeguards Group (ESG) of the IDB has examined how potential environmental and social risks of major Bank-supported road improvement investments in natural resource rich and socio-culturally diverse "frontier" regions have been identified and addressed in various parts of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010653912
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Transporte automotor de carga en Belice, Centroamérica y República Dominicana: Análisis de desempeño y recomendaciones de política
Inter-American Development Bank; Banco Interamericano … - 2013
En Centroamérica las distancias son cortas y los volúmenes de carga son pequeños para consolidar una red densa de transporte marítimo de corta distancia. Además, no existe una red ferroviaria transnacional. Esto otorga al transporte automotor de carga (TAC) un rol clave en el transporte...
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