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Who Decides the Budget?: A Political Economy Analysis of the Budget Process in Latin America
Scartascini, Carlos; Stein, Ernesto H.; Abuelafia, Emmanuel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2009
region in which informality dominates public governance. It includes detailed country analyses which provide comparative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010673728
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The Role of Information and Communication Technology in Building Trust in Governance: Towards Effectiveness and Results
Avgerou, Chrisanti; Ciborra, Claudio; Cordella, Antonio; … - Inter-American Development Bank
governance and people-centered development in accordance with the principles contained in the United Nations Millennium …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772310
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Governing the Metropolis: Principles and Cases Title: Gobernar las metrópolis
Slack, Enid; Cuadrado-Roura, Juan R.; Güell, José … - Inter-American Development Bank
governance as they apply to the metropolis, and unfolds cases of institutional and programmatic arrangements to tackle such …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772441
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An Unequal Democracy?: Seeing Latin America through European Eyes
Patten, Christopher; Whitehead, Laurence; Álamo, Óscar del - Inter-American Development Bank
International Institute for Governance of Catalonia in November 2003, with support from the government of Catalonia and the Special …: democracy, governance and well-being. The book is a compilation of selected papers presented at the conference that address …, particularly in Latin America. This book aims to contribute to the reflection and debate on the issues of democracy, governance and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772493
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How Much do Teachers Earn?
Piras, Claudia; Savedoff, William D. - Inter-American Development Bank - 1998
In the continuing debate over how to improve education systems, many people argue that teachers' salaries need to be increased. This paper seeks to establish a reliable method for analyzing the issue using household survey data from Bolivia.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944366
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Exploring the Possible Benefits and Costs of FTAA
Harberger, Arnold C. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002
minuses surrounding a prospective FTAA and focuses on the economists' tried and true criteria of costs and benefits. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010653460
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Exploring the Possible Benefits and Costs of FTAA
Harberger, Arnold C. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002
minuses surrounding a prospective FTAA and focuses on the economists' tried and true criteria of costs and benefits. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009193628
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Living with Debt: How to Limit the Risks of Sovereign Finance Title: Vivir con deuda: Cómo contener los riesgos del endeudamiento público Title: Viver com dívida: Como limitar os r...
Yeyati, Eduardo Levy; Borensztein, Eduardo; Panizza, Ugo; … - Inter-American Development Bank
The 2007 Report on Economic and Social Progress in Latin America analyzes the nature and evolution of sovereign debt in Latin America and discusses the policies that can be followed by countries and international financial institutions (IFIs) to reduce the vulnerabilities associated with it....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010895455
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Veto Players, Fickle Institutions and Low-Quality Policies: The Policymaking Process in Ecuador
Acosta, Andrés Mejía; Araujo, María Caridad; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2006
This paper seeks to understand why political actors, institutions and legal reforms have systematically failed to produce cooperation in the Ecuadorian policymaking process. From a comparative and historical standpoint, Ecuador has been trapped in a cycle of low-quality public policies that fail...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943735
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The Making of Policy: Institutionalized or Not?
Scartascini, Carlos G.; Tommasi, Mariano - Inter-American Development Bank - 2009
This paper develops a framework for analyzing different policymaking styles, their causes and their consequences in Latin America, finding that lower institutionalization and greater use of alternative political technologies (APTs) are more likely the lower the cost of using these technologies,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943776