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Heritage Conservation in Latin America and the Caribbean: Recent Bank Experience

Rojas, Eduardo - Inter-American Development Bank - 1998

The Bank is leading the involvement of development banks in financing urban heritage conservation projects in Latin America and the Caribbean. This is a new area of work for the Bank and emerged in response to requests from borrowing member governments for assistance in their efforts to preserve...

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A Primer for Applying Propensity-Score Matching

Heinrich, Carolyn; Maffioli, Alessandro; Vázquez, Gonzalo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

This document provides a guide to the key aspects of implementing Propensity-Score Matching (PSM) methodology. It summarizes the basic conditions under which PSM can be used to estimate the impact of a program and the data required, presenting examples of PSM applications. It explains how the...

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Competition in Public Utilities in Developing Countries

Beato, Paulina; Laffont, Jean-Jacques - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002

This paper focuses on public utilities (telecommunications, electricity, gas, water, transportation (roads, railways, buses, ports, airports), and postal service, which are sometimes referred to as economic infrastructures. The paper summarizes the desirable departures from the practices of...

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Synopsis of the Executive Profile of Environmental Management: Mesoamerican Subregion

Pratt, Lawrence; Girot, Pascal O. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002

This executive profile summarized here identifies the great environmental challenges of the Mesoamerican region, highlights the achievements of the last decade, and points out the future course that will guide the region's environmental management advancements. There are three main issues...

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Should Public Budgets Finance Convention Centers?

Darling, Arthur H.; Beato, Paulina - Inter-American Development Bank - 2004

The Bank is receiving an increasing number of requests from state and municipal governments to finance publicly owned convention centers. This paper suggests that few of these projects will bring the benefits expected and may impose fiscal burdens on states and municipalities that will make it...

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Business sustainability and undergraduate management education in Australia

Fisher, Josie; Bonn, Ingrid - 2009

sustainability and the appropriate strategies required to improve business sustainability. In addition, there are international calls … for educators to address sustainability in their programs. The aim of this study was to investigate the extent to which … business sustainability is being incorporated into undergraduate business and management courses in Australian universities …

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A Comparative Analysis of Water Quality Sampling Decisions in Aquifers

Rajagopal, Rangaswamy; Kuchibhatla, Ramana - 1995

No single set of sampling decisions is optimal for all monitoring programs. Cost-effective decisions will have to be made in an adaptive framework, constantly changing yet having a basic structure. The major objectives of this paper are to develop and illustrate such a model structure for...

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The Point-of-Use Water Treatment Industry: Expert Opinion on Regulation.

Rajagopal, Rangaswamy; Tobin, Graham A - 1990

Concerns over declining water quality have led many home owners to install point-of-use water treatment units to improve potable supplies. This industry has grown considerably in recent years. However, some questions have been raised regarding misleading advertising and improper claims being...

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Does sustainable supplier co-operation affect performance? : examining implications for the triple bottom line

Hollos, Daniel; Blome, Constantin; Foerstl, Kai - In: International journal of production research 50 (2012) 11, pp. 2968-2986

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An analysis of the eco-efficiency of remanufactured personal computers and mobile phones

Frota Neto, Joao Quariguasi; Bloemhof-Ruwaard, Jacqueline M. - In: Production and operations management : an international … 21 (2012) 1, pp. 101-114

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