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Organizational Assessment: A Framework for Improving Performance Title: Evaluación organizacional: Marco para mejorar el desempeño

Lusthaus, Charles; Carden, Fred; Adrien, Marie-Hélène; … - Inter-American Development Bank

The book offers a clear-cut methodology to diagnose organizational strengths and weakness at the onset of development activities. With it, beneficiaries can respond to growing pressures from donors for accountable and sustainable use of funding.Abstract: Ofrece una metodología clara para...

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Are Environmentally Related Taxes Effective?

Miller, Sebastian; Vela, Mauricio A. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013

This paper focuses on the question of whether the magnitude of long-established environmentally related taxes (ERT) is related to countries environmental performance. While environmental taxes efficiencies have previously been discussed, those taxes contribution to reducing pollution and...

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Tax Compliance and Enforcement in the Pampas: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Scartascini, Carlos G.; Castro, Lucio - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013

Tax evasion is a pervasive problem in many countries. In particular, some developing countries do not collect even half of what they would if taxpayers complied with the written letter of the law. The academic literature has not been oblivious to the need to explain why people pay (or do not...

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Tax Reforms in Latin America in an Era of Democracy

Scartascini, Carlos G. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013

The literature on taxes and public finance generally focuses on revenues, an easily observable and generally available variable, as the observable measure of tax policy. Still, revenues depend on many determinants other than the political will and policy objectives of the government. It is...

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Trade Policy Scope and Taxation Study in Belize

Monge, Ernesto Fernández - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013

The Technical Note provides an overview of the trends in Belize's tariff structure over recent years, in particular its trade policy, commitments and obligations, the tax revenue implications, and the scope for policy implementation. Specifically, it assesses the country's level of compliance...

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Does Participatory Budgeting Improve Decentralized Public Service Delivery?

Beuermann, Diether Wolfgang; Amelina, Maria - Inter-American Development Bank - 2014

fractions of public budgets to services stated as top priorities by citizens, and increased satisfaction levels with public … services. These effects, however, were found only when the model was implemented in already-mature administratively and …

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The Emergence of Successful Export Activities in Mexico: Three Case Studies

Aragón, Edgar; Fouquet, Anne; Campos, Marcia - Inter-American Development Bank - 2009

This paper consists of three case studies of the emergence of three successful export activities in Mexico: avocado production, the manufacture of catheters, and call center outsourcing. Each case study discusses how companies, associations, and governments at various levels have addressed...

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The Emergence of Successful Export Activities in Uruguay: Four Case Studies

Casacuberta, Carlos; Domingo, Rosario; Pastori, Hector; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2009

This paper consists of four case studies of the emergence of four successful export activities in Uruguay: computer software, forest products, caviar and sturgeon meat, and animal vaccines. Each case study discusses how companies, associations, and governments at various levels have addressed...

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Services, Anti-dumping and Other ¿New Issues¿ in the WTO Negotiations and Their Relevance for the FTAA Title: Servicios, Anti-Dumping y Otros ¿Nuevos Temas¿ en las Negociaciones de...

Jara, Alejandro - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002

In the semester following the Doha Ministerial, WTO Members were able to set up the essential elements of the Work Program decided by Ministers at Doha (November 2001), including the negotiations mandated in the declaration.Abstract: Lo anterior permitió que iniciaran negociaciones en diversas...

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Innovation in Services: The Hard Case for Latin America and the Caribbean

Tacsir, Ezequiel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

regarding innovation in services is related, at least in part, to uncertainty with respect to how innovation in services … dynamics at play in the service sector in the region and the relationship between productivity and innovation in services (as … well as specific sub-sectors of services) represents a policy making opportunity that, if ignored, could contribute to …

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