Some 360 million people in Latin America and the Caribbean -70 percent of the population- live on very low incomes and have not shared in the economic and social growth of the region. These people make up the "base of the pyramid"- the largest part of the population, with the least money. This...

O conjunto dos capítulos deste trabalho aponta e elabora importantes alternativas de política capazes de retomar e sustentar novas formas desenvolvimento apropriadas, coesas e duradouras. Ao mesmo tempo, instiga e mobiliza reflexões sobre a relevância, tanto de aprendermos e acumularmos...

Ce volume est le premier de deux qui constituent le rapport annuel de la Banque interaméricaine de développement. Ce rapport en deux volumes comporte un examen des activités de la Banque en en 2010 (prêts, garanties et dons) et, dans un volume à part, une discussion et analyse de la...

IDB is developing a Climate Change Strategy with a focus on sectors that contribute to greenhouse gas emissions, for which the Bank will promulgate good practices that encourage the use of appropriate greenhouse gas emissions reduction technologies. One selected subsector in the IDB climate...

This Annual Report details the Bank's activities in environment and natural resources during 1999. Overall in 1999, the Bank's environmental and natural resource activities were focused in three priority areas of action: 1) identifying and implementing loans specially designed to solve...

Given the contributions of the Development Effectiveness Matrix (DEM) and the self-evaluation system of evaluability, OVE can now move away from a wholly separate system of reviewing project evaluability (as was done in 2001, 2005, and 2009). OVE can move towards a system of continuous...

In recent years a number of studies have been devoted to the twin issues of economic development and of decentralization in Argentina. Many papers have tried to understand the complex system of intergovernmental relations. Most of them, however, have focussed on the role of provinces, and...

The Annual Report contains a review of the Bank's operations in 2012 (loans, guarantees and grants). The second volume contains the full set of the financial statements of the Bank's resources.Abstract: El Informe anual contiene un examen de las operaciones del Banco en 2012 (préstamos,...

This book examines poverty as a structural problem caused by the way economic systems operate. It poses a simple question: Why do poor people earn less? Case studies in Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica and Peru find the poor caught in a vicious circle. They lack sufficient access to...

The drivers of educational attainment have been the subject of much research both in the developed and the developing world. Yet, nothing is known about the effect of birth registration on schooling outcomes. Birth registration is not only a fundamental human right but also a requirement to...