Le café a traditionnellement joué un rôle particulier en milieu rural haïtien, à la fois sur le plan économique, social et environnemental. Cependant, la compétitivité du secteur caféier en Haïti est en baisse depuis plusieurs années en raison d'une combinaison de facteurs externes et...

This article discusses the implications of decision rules in the governance structures of transnational infrastructure projects. It stresses that decision rules strongly affect the performance of the partnership and that, consequently, attention should be given to their design at the initial...

Modernizers of the state have been busy during the past decade building new governance institutions and rehabilitating old ones in developing and emerging market countries.

This paper proposes that budget officials of Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries make use of the IDB dialogue process to convene periodically and discuss means of improving budget practices in the region. The paper surveys contemporary issues that may warrant consideration by the budget...

Because of the complexities associated with the water pricing and public-private partnership issue and their relevance to water management of the future, the Third World Water Centre for Water Management, the Inter-American Development Bank and the Agencia Nacional de Aguas of Brazil sponsored...

This report develops a common monitoring system based on a common set of indicators, data collection procedures, and an internet-based application to capture and report results.

This paper reviews, analyzes, and documents the current IDB experience in "productive integration" logic, in order to generate a pool of useful knowledge that will contribute to improving the design and implementation of future projects. This logic is based on the assumption that, by cooperating...

This summary of the presentations and discussions of the participants in the meeting "Competitiveness of Small Enterprises: Clusters, Business Environment and Local Development", aims to find the common thread that ties the themes of the presentations together.

To enhance private sector development and increase the impact of Private Sector Development (PSD) Strategy Projects, there is a need for a comprehensive program that will link business climate reforms to cluster development initiatives and to improvements at the firm level. To develop such an...

MIF has experience in workforce capacity building, labor force modernization, skills standards, and labor re-conversion in the human resource sector. This paper presents an overview of eight MIF human resource projects, their key success factors, as well as recommendations for future success.