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The literature on aid effectiveness has focused more on recipient policies than the determinants of aid allocation yet a consistent result is that political allies obtain more aid from donors than non-allies. This paper shows that aid allocated to political allies is ineffective for growth,...
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This paper presents a retrospective review of several key areas of work of the Capital Markets and Financial Institutions Division (CMF) of the Inter-American Development Bank. Presented with each chapter as an independent piece, the paper analyzes the operations portfolio of CMF from 2006 to...
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This paper presents the impact evaluation of CRIAR program, implemented in rural areas in Bolivia. The objective of … CRIAR is to increase smallholders' agricultural income and food security through productivity improvements triggered by … present evidence that program participation increased agricultural productivity, household income and improved food security …
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Despite the large potential gains from credit by second-tier development banks, little is known about the actual impact of these banks' lending activity. This study partially fills that gap by analyzing the impact of the lending activity of Bancoldex, the Colombian second-tier development bank,...
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During the past 11 years, the Dominican Republic has introduced dozens of new laws and regulations aimed at modernizing its national management systems. The new rules represent a step forward in the implementation of Managing for Development Results (MfDR) techniques that will improve the...
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This paper attempts to evaluate the effectiveness of Bolivia's labor market institutions, particularly the Plan … problem in Bolivia's labor market, as the non-salaried market is always an alternative. While un- employment durations and … the size of the formal market, apparently as a result of Bolivia's rigid labor markets and labor policies based mainly on …
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After 18 years of democracy and 15 years of structural reforms, Bolivia has made important strides in consolidating its … exclusión social son los problemas más severos que afectan a la democracia y gobernabilidad en Bolivia, consecuentemente, la …
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This paper analyzes the relationship between reproductive empowerment and individual mental well-being by exploiting a unique set of questions from the 2003 Bolivian Demographic and Health Survey (DHS). It analyzes whether women who lack reproductive empowerment, measured here by undesired...
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, tomando Bolivia como estudio de caso. Se utilizan como ejemplo las tres mayores instituciones de microfinanzas (IMFs) de … Bolivia --BancoSol, Caja los Andes y FIE-- para describir los desafíos que han enfrentado las microfinanzas debido a la … de las microfinanzas en Bolivia y de las microfinanzas en general. La edición también incluye una reseña sobre la …
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Plurinational State of Bolivia (Bolivia) over the span 2008-2010. An essential consideration in a review of the development of the … Bank's country strategy with Bolivia (BCS-BO) for 2008-2010 is the set of sweeping economic and social changes that … areas of productive infrastructure, water and sanitation, productivity, and housing. The plan, once the concrete results of …
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