... health inLatinAmericaand the Caribbean: challenges and opportunities] Mexico,Inter American Development Bank, Population Council, InstitutoNacional de Salud Publica, 2000, (in Spainsh, in press).3. ... assessment of existing capacity for thesefunctions and to help in strengthening such capacitywhen necessary (7).Continue building on the important role ofNGOs. Changes in financing and decentralization ... (2).Growth inthe size and influence of civil society in Brazil since the 1980s has facilitated the positivechange. Increasingly democratic processes havelengthened the policy decision-making process,...
... Programs in LatinAmericaand Caribbean Editors:Gladys Lopez AcevedoHong W. TanApril 2010Poverty and Gender UnitPoverty Reduction and Economic Management Sector Latin AmericaandtheCaribbean ... ReservedPrinting and Manufactured in Mexico / 2010First Printing: January, 2010 The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this book are entirely those of the authors and should ... Division of theLatinAmericaandCaribbean Region of the World Bank. The objective of the study was to rigorously evaluate small and medium enterprise (SME) programs in four Latin American countries—Mexico,...
... Ministerial Declaration Preventing through education1st Meeting of Ministers of Health and Education to Stop HIV and STIs inLatinAmericaandthe Caribbean Preventing through ... education1. Preamble Gathered in Mexico City, inthe context of the XVII International AIDS Conference, with the objective of strengthening the response to the HIV epidemic in formal and non-formal ... settings, we, the Ministers of Health and Education of LatinAmericaandthe Caribbean: 1.1 Affirm our commitment to the right to the highest possible level of health, education, non-discrimination...
... this increases the effective marginal The State of Social Protection inLatinAmericaandtheCaribbean 33 insurance; (2) providing guidelines on ways to extend coverage by ration-alizing financing ... for understanding this sort of interaction effect in LAC remains limited and further research is needed.34 Achieving Effective Social Protection for All inLatinAmericaandthe Caribbean drawback ... old-age incomesupport, health, and unemployment protection. CHAPTER 1 The State of Social Protection in LatinAmericaandthe Caribbean: Recent Progress and PendingChallenges 11Slow progress in...
... against the wind”: (i) raising RRs during the upswing phase of the cycle to contain excessive credit growth andthe associated build up of vulnerabilities and (ii) lowering them during the ... in Latin America. 4 In particular, it assesses their effectiveness in containing bank credit to the private sector, and its interactions with other policies. For this purpose, we examine the ... contain credit growth and manage liquidity conditions inthe economy, while managing in tandem policy interest rates. These dynamics are evident prior, during, and following the 2008–2009 financial...
... income inequality inLatinAmericaand sub-Saharan Africa areamong the highest inthe world, but the characteristics and sources ofinequality differ distinctively. The Colonial Origins of Inequality ... With theLatin American experience in mind, this chapter explorestwo questions: what explains the cross-country variation in land in- equality at the end of the colonial age, and how does initial ... there is growing debate and awareness about the well-beingcosts of high inequality inLatin America. Given inequality aversion,for which there is convincing evidence from LatinAmerica (WorldBank...
... maintain their relevance inthe future. Another reason is that MDBs are important sources and promoters of knowledge and innovation in development thinking and ideas for intervention, and they ... sector in 2011, the IIC allocated US$465.0 million, and FOMIN allocated US$108.0 million. SRDBs are also innovating and competing in these areas and complementing the operations of other MDBs. The ... decentralized system inthe LAC region. We have gathered several indicators about their interactions with other MDBs and other financial and development institutions, their relative position inthe development...
... press andthe press itself, acompanied by the understanding of its vital necessity for the progress. The appearance of the “penny papers” inthe United States andin a certain way also inthe whole ... nowadays holds the sad title of being the country with the strongest decline in the region loosing three points inthe hands of those gangs. This causes that Mexico is the country in which mostjournalists ... leads again the Press Freedom and Economic Development ranking for LatinAmericain 2008. Costa Rica suffered a strong decrease inthe score but without loosing the second position inthe regional...
... Garcia-Escibano, and M. Vera Martin, 2012, “Credit Growth andthe Effectiveness of Reserve Requirements and Other Macroprudential Instruments inLatin America, ” Working Paper No. 12/142 (Washington: International ... 2008, and 2010). We conjecture that the increase inthe interest rate gap was achieved by reducing the NRIR, possibly through contracting the output gap (quantifying and rigorously analyzing these ... Expected-Inflation Augmented Taylor Rule 30 5. NRIR: General Equilibrium Model 31 6. Latin America: Interest and Output Gap 32 7. Latin America: Interest Gap and Economic Growth 33 8. Latin America: ...
... Americaandthe Caribbean) (2002) Latin America andtheCaribbeaninthe World Economy, 2000–2001, Santiago: ECLAC.ECLAC (Economic Commission for LatinAmericaandthe Caribbean) (2003) Latin America ... stabilising investment, growth and employment. Ríos-Bolívar and Neme- Castillo study the relationship between international trade and per capita income in 21 countries of LatinAmericaandtheCaribbean ... matrix containing all independent variables, k, for each Latin American andtheCaribbean country. In this case, these variables are the loga-rithms of the growth rates of population and technology...
... Helvetica12 THE MEDIA INLATIN AMERICA Kerrypress Ltd – Typeset in XML A Division: chapter0 1 F Sequential 12 Edited by Jairo Lugo-Ocando the media in Latin America the media inLatin America Edited ... O2 brand); the Slovak Republic(under the O2 brand); Germany (under the O2 brand); the Republic ofIreland (under the O2 brand); andthe UK (under the O2 brand). The MoviStar name has been in use ... project in the emerging Latin American market. Their strategy consisted of creatinglocal brands instead of trying to globalize their own mobile brand, so thatby 2005 the individual brands were...