O Observatório Metodológico PROCIDADES foi desenvolvido sob a responsabilidade do Setor de Conhecimento e Aprendizagem (KNL) e da Divisão de Gestão Fiscal e Municipal (FMM) da Representação no Brasil (CBR), do BID. Possuiu como finalidade promover a reflexão sobre os métodos utilizados...

This paper analyzes MIF efforts to improve inadequate training institutions and emphasize the basic importance of updating management and worker skills in SMEs in Latin America

This paper analyzes the evolution and structure of taxation in the Mercosur countries. Specifically, it covers taxes on goods and services, including general excise taxes and excises taxes, and income taxes, both corporate and personal. It also discusses the role of the tax administration and...

This working paper contains a review and analysis of environmental policy tools in Latin America. It contains a review of the instruments themselves and their properties are discussed in both static and dynamic contexts. The report brings together the institutional and more narrowly economic...

The presentation discuses incentives used to support innovation in the private sector in Brazil. It focuses on the incentives for supporting firms' innovative activities, which include a wide range of programs, such as: Sectoral Funds, Industrial, Technological; Foreign Trade Policy; and new...

This presentation discusses the use of incentives to foster innovation in the private sector. It includes a discussion of supporting and funding R&D in the business sector; the use of tax incentives for R&D; and a comparison of other financing instruments. This presentation was presented at the...

The Dominican Republic invests a considerable amount of public resources in transfer and subsidy programs with the main objective of redistributing income to and subsidizing consumption of the poor. This study measures the effectiveness with which publicly-financed transfers redistribute income....

This paper explores the design of sound fiscal rules and their effective implementation and enforcement in the light of the existing literature and of available empirical evidence. It focuses in particular on the potential advantages and requirements for the effective operation of fiscal rules...

This review of the fiscal adjustment in Belize focuses on the revenue requirement of the Government in the short term as well as the tax reform measures that are needed in order to meet the longer term revenue requirements of the public sector. The study examines the country's tax design, its...