This study undertakes a broad-based evaluation of public expenditures in Belize in order to identify ways of enhancing economic and social gains from public services. It reviews the budgeting and financial management systems used to translate public finances into public services, with a focus on...

This study undertakes a broad-based evaluation of public expenditures in Belize in order to identify ways of enhancing economic and social gains from public services. It reviews the budgeting and financial management systems used to translate public finances into public services, with a focus on...

This book assesses the impact and design of optimal strategies to implement existing agreements. It deals with issues such as removing the remaining barriers to trade, improving the institutional, regional, and global trade architecture, and promoting convergence and accumulation among the...

This note presents the preliminary estimates of 2011 trade flows produced by the Inter-American Development Bank's (IDB) Integration and Trade Sector. The estimates are based on partial year data for sixteen available Latin American countries and are calculated on the basis of national sources...

Economic development in The Bahamas is closely linked to the country's trade performance, and specifically its services export capacity. Foreign investment, which is mostly directed towards tourism projects and financial services investments, have traditionally helped to stimulate economic...

This document contains country and agreement profiles. Country Profiles in the following pages present an overview of the performance and structure of international trade for each country as well as its multilateral and preferential trade policies. The Agreement Profiles in the following pages...

El BID se aprovechó el Cuarto Foro de alto nivel sobre la eficacia de la ayuda, que se celebró en Busan, Corea, para difundir los resultados de su Iniciativa de Bienes Públicos Regionales. Este documento proporciona información básica acerca de la Iniciativa de RPG, que es el principal...

This document is an input to the IDB country strategy with Belize for the period 2008-2012. This note assesses Belize's trade performance in the past several years, and puts forth policy recommendations for Belize to foster its export projection and competitiveness in global markets. The main...

After posting double digit gains in 2010-2011, Latin America's export growth declined to just 1.5% in 2012 for a total value of slightly more than $1 trillion, according to figures just released by the Integration and Trade Sector of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). These results...

Datos preliminares del BID sobre comercio exterior en el 2004 indican que las exportaciones latinoamericanas alcanzarán la tasa de crecimiento más alta de las últimas dos décadas al superar los US$ 445.000 millones, lo que equivale a un aumento de 23 por ciento en el año.