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Downtown Poverty: Methods of Analysis and Interventions: A Sourcebook for Practitioners Title: Pobreza en áreas centrales urbanas: Métodos de análisis e intervenciones: Manual de c...
Quartesan, Alessandra (contributor);  … - Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American …
growth and rural to urban migration. It is important to emphasize that poverty tends to concentrate in cities. More than two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772346
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Latin America's Energy Future
Tissot, Roger - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
oil companies in the region. Regional oil policy has also been boosted by the growth of China, which is now a major player …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010728987
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Innovation and the New Service Economy in Latin America and the Caribbean
Rubalcaba, Luis - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
hampering innovation in services. The first policy priority would be to raise the awareness of the topic in the policy and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010672867
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Fiscal Policy Issues in Jamaica: Budgetary Institutions, the Tax System and Public Debt Management
Artana, Daniel; Naranjo, Fernando - Inter-American Development Bank - 2003
different assumptions and look at debt management within a comprehensive fiscal policy assessment and at the path of public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009206080
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Incentivizing Clean Technology in the Mining Sector in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Role of Public Mining Institutions
Masson, Malaika; Walter, Martin; Priester, Michael - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
How can LAC governments promote the use of clean and green technology in the mining sector and what are the supporting instruments, regulations, infrastructure and institutional aspects that are needed to reinforce this role within public supervisory mining agencies? This technical note explores...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739666
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Latin America's Energy Future
Tissot, Roger - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
oil companies in the region. Regional oil policy has also been boosted by the growth of China, which is now a major player …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010652563
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Fiscal Policy Issues in Jamaica: Budgetary Institutions, the Tax System and Public Debt Management
Artana, Daniel; Naranjo, Fernando - Inter-American Development Bank - 2003
different assumptions and look at debt management within a comprehensive fiscal policy assessment and at the path of public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010655709
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Suriname: Trade Sector Policy Note
Jessen, Anneke; Shearer, Matthew; Vignoles, Christopher - Inter-American Development Bank - 2006
, presents policy recommendations, so that becomes a useful tool for improving the country's economic growth and development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010655821
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Sibling Correlations and Social Mobility in Latin America
Dahan, Momi; Gaviria, Alejandro - Inter-American Development Bank - 1999
In this paper, social mobility is measured by looking at the extent to which family background determines socioeconomic success. Roughly speaking, social mobility can be measure by means of two distinct types of correlations: intergenerational correlations and sibling correlations.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943626
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The 1990s in Latin America: Another Decade of Persistent Inequality
Székely, Miguel; Hilgert, Marianne - Inter-American Development Bank - 1999
This paper argues that there is no country in Latin America where we can confidently say that income inequality … increases in inequality among the first nine deciles. In the remaining 5, the reason is a greater concentration among the …, inequality has increased less in this region than in developed countries and in Eastern Europe. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944090