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Quality of Life in Buenos Aires Neighborhoods: Hedonic Price Regressions and the Life Satisfaction Approach
Cruces, Guillermo; Ham, Andrés; Tetaz, Martín - Inter-American Development Bank - 2009
This paper studies quality of life for urban neighborhoods and their determinants in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA). First, hedonic price regressions for residential prices are augmented with neighborhood characteristics, based on a real estate database with indicators on each...
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Justice and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean Title: Justicia y desarrollo en América Latina y el Caribe
Fix-Zamudio, Héctor; Benito, Elizabeth Odio; Bruno, … - Inter-American Development Bank
This book presents the proceedings of a seminar on the need for administrative, judicial and legislative reform in Latin American and the Caribbean, held in San José, Costa Rica, February 4-6,1993. Issues addressed include judicial management, training, and administration.Abstract: Esta...
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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...
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Are Uruguayan Housing Policies Reaching the Poor?: An Assessment of Housing Deficit, Housing Informality and Usage of Housing Programs in Uruguay
Garabato, Natalia; Ramada, Magdalena - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
comparing their design with households' characteristics and needs. The document additionally measures Uruguay's housing deficit …This document surveys the Uruguayan housing market, first describing the main housing programs and policies, then …, using the basis deficit as well as quantitative and qualitative deficits, and provides a definition of housing informality …
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Housing Markets in Uruguay: Determinants of Housing Demand and Its Interaction with Public Policies
Garabato, Natalia; Ramada, Magdalena - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
This paper analyzes the determinants of housing demand for Uruguay and the extent to which housing policies have an … impact on their target population. The paper first analyzes the determinants of housing demand, following an approach based … (or markets) to estimate a housing demand function. The determinants of formality and ownership choices were examined …
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Guide to Critical Issues for Socio-Cultural Analysis
Partridge, William L.; Mejía, María Clara - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
This document focuses on four sectors where socio-cultural analysis is particularly critical for addressing issues of reducing poverty and exclusion. In the case of major infrastructure projects, the primary concern is to minimize or mitigate their impacts on local communities. For projects in...
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Socio-Cultural Analysis in IDB Projects: A Discussion Paper
Partridge, William L.; Mejía, María Clara - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
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...
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Guyana: Technical Note on Indigenous Peoples
Renshaw, Jonathan - Inter-American Development Bank - 2007
The aim of this note is to provide an overview of the situation of the Indigenous Peoples of Guyana. The note covers a range of issues, including land regularisation, environment - especially mining, logging and the establishment of protected areas - economic development, education, health care...
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Female-Headed Households and Homeownership in Latin America
Gandelman, Néstor - Inter-American Development Bank - 2008
although on average women have lower probability of being homeowners, women who head households (single, separated or divorced … household headship in order to properly address the gender effect on housing tenure. Estimating a bivariate probit model, the …
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Investing in Gender Equality: 2002-2003 Title: Invirtiendo en igualdad de género: 2002-2003
Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American …; … - 2004
This third edition of Investing in Gender Equality presents IDB projects that exemplify good work in the integration of gender considerations in their design. The 18 projects included in this edition have been identified through a system that ranks projects according to how comprehensively...
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