En esta edición de Microempresa se presentan dos artículos principales. En el primero, se examinan las implicancias de las fusiones de la entidades microfinancieras en América Latina, ante la posibilidad de la fusión de los cinco afiliados de Women's World Banking en Colombia (Bogotá,...

This document produced by the Inter-American Development Bank Environmental Committee deals with strategies and procedures on sociocultural issues as related to the environment. Recognizing: 1) The close relationship between environmental protection and natural resources management on the one...

The aim of the Policy on Disaster Risk Management favorably reviewed by the Board of Execution Directors of the IDB on February 28, 2007 is to provide clear directives for the Bank to ensure that its assistance supports proactive disaster risk management. It represents the Bank's continued...

New Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards were recently passed in the United States with the twin goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and oil use. The new standards represent a dramatic change from recent policy. This paper examines the key features of the new rules, and...

This paper reviews to what extent and how effectively the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB, or Bank) is implementing the IDB-9 requirements pertaining to environmental and social safeguards policies. The Bank's commitment to sustainability is enshrined in the Environmental and Safeguards...

A two-sector OLG model illuminates previously unexamined intergenerationaleffects of a tax that protects an environmental stock. A traded asset capitalizes the economic returns to future tax-induced environmental improvements, benefiting the current asset owners, the old generation. Absent a...

This paper investigates whether economic conditions influence environmental policy by examining how policymakers voting on environmental legislation respond to changes in their state’s unemployment rate. The outcome of interest is a US Senator’s League of Conservation Voters score, which...

In the fall of 2006 the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles announced the Clean Air Action Plan (CAAP). Its intent was to greatly accelerate emissions reductions from port activities. The CAAP was unprecedented in several ways: it was a voluntary agreement between two competing ports; it was...

This presentation was commissioned by the Environment Network of the Regional Policy Dialogue for the I Hemispheric Meeting celebrated on April 4th and 5th, 2002. This presentation is about conditions for Success of Environmental Public Policies in Productive Sectors. Also includes environmental...