... (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, ... 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 ... and reproductive health inLatin America 673Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2000, 78 (5)coordination among the different levels of the healthsystem in both the public and private...
... increased R&D spending and R&D intensity (of about 3%) in both the full sample of firms and inthe sub-sample of innovative firms, and they rejected the hypothesis of subsidies crowding ... commercial information, hiring and training of specialized staff, and increased investments in export promo-tion activities. In quantitative terms, participation in PROCHILE increased by one the ... ndings suggest that SME programs are having tangible impacts on the short and medium term intermediate outcomes that they are targeting.Do these gains in intermediate outcomes translate into...
... 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 ... 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 LatinAmerica and the Caribbean:1.1 Affirm our commitment to the right to the highest possible level of health, education, non-discrimination...
... increases the effective marginal The State of Social Protection inLatinAmerica and the Caribbean 33insurance; (2) providing guidelines on ways to extend coverage by ration-alizing financing ... State of Social Protection in LatinAmerica and the Caribbean:Recent Progress and PendingChallenges11Slow progress in improving the coverage of LatinAmerica and the Caribbean’s (LAC’s) traditional ... groups (such as mothers and children). They are administered by the 20 Achieving Effective Social Protection for All inLatinAmerica and the Caribbeaninsurance systems operating in parallel, often...
... 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 ... Literature on theLatinAmerica Experience In general, there are only a handful of studies examining the recent experience effectiveness of RRs inthe region.20 The analysis is hindered by the heterogeneity ... Since this constraint is likely to be violated in practice, fixed-effects (f_i) inthe model were incorporated to allow for individual heterogeneity inthe levels of the variables. Since the...
... interest rate policy. They would tighten the credit channel directly, without further increasing capital inflows. threatening indebtedness or otherwise endanger the resilience of the financial ... 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: ... risk and inflation premiums, as well as the easing in global financial conditions; (explaining the drivers behind the downward NRIR trend is beyond the scope of this paper).20,21 In almost...
... survived the hardships thatoften presented themselves in life. Point of Analysis: I feel that the author was a bit long winded in her explanations of some things. Thereare many things that ... with female kin, the web grewthrough the non-relative friends of kin as a girl grew she made herown friends and they were incorporated into this familial world. VI.Rituals inthe life of a ... extendedfamily (in- laws) B. The mother-daughter relationship is at the centerof this world. The daughters relied on their mothers forsupport and learned their female duties from them, sort of...
... of their net income to strengthening their capital base. The situation is more complex inthe case of the IDB, and the CAF is following this path and differentiating progressively from other ... building their financial capacity to focus on their financial role. The IDB is taking the lead inthe region to make resources available to countries in financial distress. It is thus creating ... 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...
... havemaintained intact, with Chile occupying the first place and CostaRica and Uruguay sharing the second. But at the top of the ranking there is the first piece of news which is the decline ofBolivia ... are strongly linked to each other.Another interesting data that is revealed by the ranking of Press Freedom and Economic Development inLatin America is linked to the cases of the three countries ... organized crime linked withdrug trafficking is Mexico. This country nowadays holds the sad title of being the country with the strongest decline in the region loosing three points inthe hands of...
... Actually, in most Latin American countries the gross investment ratio declined vis- à-vis the investment coefcient of the golden age of the ISI model. In Argentina, seemingly the worst case, the ... development gap, while LatinAmerica has experienced exactly the opposed trends inthe period of the market- friendly reforms. Before the WC agenda, theLatin American economies (Argentina aside) kept ... re- employ them in another. As soon as this link inthe chain is broken the whole of the free trade argument breaks down.’ The second crucial assumption is that inthe process of freeing trade,...
... change inthe inequalityof total income into what is due to the changes inthe means and in the inequality of income sources 1 and 2. The preceding decompo-sition formulas do not work in this ... of the change in inequal-ity between two points in time. Differentiating equation 2.3, it followsthat the change in overall inequality, I, may be expressed as the sumof the change in within-group ... (1982) shows the way in which total inequality Iyat apoint in time can be decomposed into the inequality coming from the various income sources. In particular, he shows that, for E2, the Generalized...