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Managing for Development Results in the Dominican Republic
Guzman, Juan Pablo Martínez - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
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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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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The New Wave of Capital Inflows: Sea Change or Tide?
Fernández-Arias, Eduardo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000
This paper was prepared for the Seminar The New Wave of Capital Inflows: Sea Change or Tide? Annual Meetings of the Board of Governors, Inter-American Development Bank and Inter-American Investment CorporationWill capital inflows boom again in Latin America as countries recover from the 1998-99...
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International Initiatives to Bring Stability to Financial Integration
Fernández-Arias, Eduardo; Hausmann, Ricardo - Inter-American Development Bank - 1999
Financial liberalization and integration have generated disappointing results. They were supposed to set up a win-win situation: capital would flow from capital-abundant, low-return, aging industrial countries to capital-scarce, high-return, young emerging countries. Growth in receiving...
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A Decade of Structural Reforms in Latin America: What Has Been Reformed and How to Measure It
Lora, Eduardo - Inter-American Development Bank - 1997
During the past decade, structural polices in the region have been aimed increasingly at improving economic efficiency and reducing government interference in economic decisions. The effects of this shift have not yet been accurately evaluated due to the lack of systematic measurements of the...
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Foreign Direct Investment: Good Cholesterol?
Hausmann, Ricardo; Fernández-Arias, Eduardo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000
This paper studies the proposition that capital inflows tend to take the form of FDI -i.e., the share of FDI in total liabilities tends to be higher- in countries that are safer, more promising and with better institutions and policies. It finds that this view is patently wrong since it stands...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944249
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The Macroeconomics of Capital Flows to Latin America: Experience and Policy Issues
Gavin, Michael; Hausmann, Ricardo; Leiderman, Leonardo - Inter-American Development Bank - 1995
This paper reviews recent experience with international capital flows in Latin America, and discusses the policy issues that surround them. The paper is predicated on three basic premises. Capital flows to the region are an important source of macroeconomic disturbance. Also, capital flows are...
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