The paper identifies the impact of physical barriers to trade within Central America through the use of an augmented and partially constrained Gravity Model of Trade. Adjusting the Euclidian distance factor for Central America by real average transport times, the model quantifies the impact of...

The paper identifies the impact of physical barriers to trade within Central America through the use of an augmented and partially constrained Gravity Model of Trade. Adjusting the Euclidian distance factor for Central America by real average transport times, the model quantifies the impact of...

El presente estudio estuvo enfocado en la generación de una metodología general dirigida a cuantificar el impacto socioeconómico de la contaminación de las cuencas hídricas tomando como caso particular la Cuenca del Río La Vieja y a la población de Cartago (Valle del Cauca). Los tópicos...

El objetivo del documento es dar continuidad al trabajo presentado en l Boletín SISD 27 (2000) que sintetiza para la década de 1990 el papel que ha desempeñado la educación en la explicación de las variables de la fuerza de trabajo y el ingreso. Los cálculos son realizados a partir de la...

The paper identifies the impact of physical barriers to trade within Central America through the use of an augmented and partially constrained Gravity Model of Trade. Adjusting the Euclidian distance factor for Central America by real average transport times, the model quantifies the impact of...

Governments worldwide face the difficult challenge of deciding which infrastructure projects to prioritize and select for implementation, given the limits of available funding and the need to attain their developmental goals. The key objective of this report is to conduct a comparative exercise...

Disruption of infrastructure services can cause significant social and economic losses, particularly in the event of a natural disaster. The World Bank Group and the Government of Japan established the Quality Infrastructure Investment Partnership to focus attention on the quality dimensions of...