This document is part of a series of studies commissioned by the Inter-American Development Bank for the first meeting of the Regional Policy Dialogue in Transparency and Public Policy, to be held in the Bank's Headquarters in Washington, D.C., the 26 and 27 of April, 2001. It discusses...

This document is part of a series of papers commissioned by the IDB for the first meeting of the Regional Policy Dialogue of Public Management and Transparency that will take place at the IDB headquarters in Washington on April 26 and 27, 2001. The purpose of this paper is the analysis of the...

The present work summarizes a set of reports which have had the aim of diagnosing the civil service systems of seventeen countries: Argentina, Barbados, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago,...

The object of this document is to present an analytical framework that could serve as a common reference to assess national Civil Service (CS) systems in countries located within the Bank's scope of action. There are three goals of the document: 1) To facilitate the task of analysts of national...

This presentation was commissioned by the Public Management and Transparency Network of the Regional Policy Dialogue for the IV Hemispheric Meeting celebreated on December 11th and 12th, 2003. A comparative institutional diagnosis of civil service systems. Indices of 17 countries.

This paper investigates the effects of political (mis)alignment on public service delivery when mandates are shared between state and local governments. We analyze sewage treatment policies in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Relying on difference-in-differences estimations, we establish a...

Als onderdeel van de technische samenwerking "Energiebesparing voor de Caraïbische Drinkwater en Afvalwaterbedrijven" heeft het "Sustainable Energy and Climate Change Initative (SECCI)" van de IDB een regionale methodologie ontwikkeld om de energie-efficiency en het onderhoud van...

Als onderdeel van de technische samenwerking "Energiebesparing voor de Caraïbische Drinkwater en Afvalwaterbedrijven" heeft het "Sustainable Energy and Climate Change Initative (SECCI)" van de IDB een regionale methodologie ontwikkeld om de energie-efficiency en het onderhoud van...

In the last decade, Belize has seen major improvements in access to water, but it is behind in achieving universal access to improved sanitation facilities. Belize has also made progress in terms of the disposal of solid waste in the central and western regions, including in the largest urban...

While privatization of water, electricity, transport and communications infrastructure continues to gain momentum in Latin America, its success often depends on whether countries implement the reforms essential to attract private investment. This book analyzes the legal, regulatory, economic and...