... facing increasingpressure from donors to achieve financial sustain-ability, which, in turn, is forcing some to chargeclients escalating prices for care. Indeed, a number ofNGOs are relying increasingly ... health inLatinAmerica and theCaribbean: challenges and opportunities] Mexico,Inter American Development Bank, Population Council, InstitutoNacional de Salud Publica, 2000, (in Spainsh, in press).3. ... verybroadly in terms of policy, financing, administration,and programming at the country level. The process isintended to be part of a larger shift towardsdemocratization. In Paraguay, as in Argentina,...
... commercial information, hiring and training of specialized staff, and increased investments in export promo-tion activities. In quantitative terms, participation in PROCHILE increased by ... DIDGains in training, technology adoption of 9-14% using matching with DID, but no impacts on sales and productivity growth Benavente et al. (2007): Chile Matching combined with DIDGains in ... R&D activities and innovation outcomes. Of particular interest was investigating whether public R&D funding in Flanders crowded out private R&D investment in the business sector; the...
... accused, among other things, of lying during immigration proceedings regarding his involvement in bombings in Havana in 1997. Originally a federal trial was set to begin in August 2009, but was ... economic interest inLatin America. 5 In February 2009 testimony, DNI Dennis Blair maintained that Venezuela “is serving as a bridge to help Iran build relations with other Latin American ... and countering terrorism financing. Such training was expanded to Argentina in the aftermath of the two bombings in 1992 and 1994. Assistance was also stepped up in 1997 to Argentina, Brazil,...
... closeness to international capital markets. Other SRDBs are introducing innovations in microfinance and SME financing with instruments such as loans to financial intermediaries, financial support ... position in the field of development finance and this increases their potential to innovate in development approaches and financial instruments. Not only do MDBs in the region operate within the international ... in direct loans and investments, and US$536.00 million in cofinancing operations, AR2009 shows US$299.00 million approved in direct loans and investments, and US$342.00 million in cofinancing...
... has been split into average and marginal reserve requirements and main macroprudential measures.3 I. INTRODUCTION Emerging market economies (EMEs), including those of Latin America, have ... tool in Latin America. 4 In particular, it assesses their effectiveness in containing bank credit to the private sector, and its interactions with other policies. For this purpose, we examine ... starting to erode the health of the banking system, as reflected by an increasing trend in non-performing loans. It was in this context that average and marginal RRs where introduced to contain...
... democracia en América. Hyspamerica, Buenos Aires: 1985.4 JAKSIC, Iván, ed. The Political Power of the Word. Press and Oratory in Nineteenth Century LatinAmerica Institute of Latin AmericanStudies, ... 0,149Ranking of Press Freedom and Economic Development in Latin America US$PBIDéficitSuperávit300.000MillonesDólaresOCTOBER 2008Press Freedom and Economic Development in Latin America 2008www.cadal.orgBy ... leads again the Press Freedom and Economic Development ranking for LatinAmericain 2008. Costa Rica suffered a strong decrease in the score but without loosing the second position in the regional...
... the training of educational personnel, from teaching colleges to in- service training for existing teachers. By the year 2015, all teacher-training programs, under the jurisdiction of the Ministries ... Ministerial Declaration Preventing through education1st Meeting of Ministers of Health and Education to Stop HIV and STIs inLatinAmerica and the CaribbeanPreventing through ... documents, in particular access to quality education for all children, adolescents and youth in our countries in an environment free from violence, stigma and discrimination. This requires increasing...
... 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: ... M. Vera Martin, 2012, “Credit Growth and the Effectiveness of Reserve Requirements and Other Macroprudential Instruments inLatin America, ” Working Paper No. 12/142 (Washington: International ... Output, Interest, and Inflation Gaps 34 9. Model and IMF Desk’s Output Gap Estimations 35 4 I. INTRODUCTION An increasing number of Latin American countries have been recently strengthening...
... increases the effective marginalThe State of Social Protection inLatinAmerica and the Caribbean 33insurance; (2) providing guidelines on ways to extend coverage by ration-alizing financing ... children). They are administered by the20 Achieving Effective Social Protection for All inLatinAmerica and the Caribbeaninsurance systems operating in parallel, often with no coordination. Forexample, ... art: Carla RobalinoCover design: Quantum Think, Inc.Library of Congress Cataloging -in- Publication DataRibe, Helena, 1949-Achieving effective social protection for all inLatinAmerica and the...
... markets during the 1990s’, in P.P. Kuczynski and J. William-son (eds) After the Washington Consensus: Restarting Growth and Reform inLatin America, Washington, DC: Institute for International ... liberalisation has involved a low gross investment to GDP ratio and a drastic increase of the income elasticity of imports. Actually, in most Latin American countries the gross investment ratio declined ... as to why China has exhibited a declining income elasticity of imports and an ever- diminishing development gap, while LatinAmerica has experienced exactly the opposed trends in the period...
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