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Deforestation and Property Rights in Latin America

Jaramillo, Carlos Felipe; Kelly, Thomas - Inter-American Development Bank - 1997

This paper analyzes the property rights/deforestation linkage in Latin America. The analysis recognizes two separate areas where tenure issues have an effect on land clearing pressures. The first deals with the security of individual property rights on established agricultural lands and their...

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Policy Instruments and Financing Mechanisms for the Sustainable Use of Forests in Latin America

López, Ramón - Inter-American Development Bank - 1996

The objectives of this paper are two-fold: to analyze the role of international and domestic policies on the sustainable use of forests in Latin America; and to examine potential financing mechanisms to promote sustainable forest development and a more efficient wood processing industry. The paper...

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Rights of Indigenous Groups over Natural Resources in Tropical Forests

Tresierra, Julio C. - Inter-American Development Bank - 1999

This study analyzes present-day and historical demographic, socioeconomic, and cultural changes in traditional native groups and in their environment, which have led to a growing loss of ethnic and ecological diversity in the main tropical rainforests of Latin America. The study summarizes...

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Opportunities for the Majority Index: Analysis of Corporate Performance in Latin America and the Caribbean

Preston, Katharine; Meade, Christian; Bruno, Alessandro; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2009

The study involved the review of 75 publicly traded firms. This baseline and the conceptual model which underpins it provide an excellent framework to accurately assess and predict the out-performance of firms based on their ability to capture opportunities within the Majority.

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Integration and Trades in the Americas: Special Issue on Latin America and the Caribbean Economic Relations with Asia-Pacific

Devlin, Robert; Estevadeordal, Antoni; Suominen, Kati; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2003

The purpose of this document is to inform Bank staff and other interested parties about recent developments in integration and trade among the countries of the Western Hemisphere and between these and other countries and world regions.

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The Central Role of Governance and Accountability in Achieving Development Goals in the 21st Century

Ibrahim, Anwar - Inter-American Development Bank - 2006

Luncheon speech by Anwar Ibrahim at the Inter-American Development Bank Forum on the Americas on December 7th, 2006

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A Guide to Developing National Aid-for-Trade Strategies

Lucenti, Krista - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

According to the responses from the region to the 2008 Aid-for-Trade questionnaire, there is a disconnect between the priorities established by governments and those set by donors. This strategy is designed to support governments in identifying priorities, improving coordination between...

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Effects of Protected Areas on Forest Cover Change and Local Communities: Evidence from the Peruvian Amazon

Miranda, Juan José; Corral, Leonardo; Blackman, Allen; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2014

Protected areas are a cornerstone of forest conservation in developing countries. Yet we know little about their effects on forest cover change or the socioeconomic status of local communities, and even less about the relationship between these effects. This paper assesses whether 'win-win'...

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Cooperation behaviour and innovation performance in the Nigerian manufacturing industry

Egbetokun, Abiodun A. - 2012

Analysing the relationship between firms' openness to external knowledge and their innovation performance is nothing … focus of this paper. Using unique micro-level innovation data, it is shown, as the existing literature suggests, that firms …. However, innovative firms that exploit external knowledge do not necessarily enjoy greater innovation benefits than those that …

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Absorptive capacity and innovation: When is it better to cooperate?

Egbetokun, Abiodun A.; Savin, Ivan - 2012

Cooperation can benefit and hurt firms at the same time. An important question then is: when is it better to cooperate. And how can an appropriate partner be selected? In this paper we present a model of inter-firm cooperation driven by cognitive distance, appropriability conditions and external...

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