... assist in the 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 ... health inLatinAmericaand the Caribbean: challenges and opportunities] Mexico,Inter American Development Bank, Population Council, InstitutoNacional de Salud Publica, 2000, (in Spainsh, in press).3. ... wasglobally adopted in 1994 at the ICPD in Cairo (8) and reaffirmed and strengthened at the FWCW in Beijing in 1995 (9), articulates a critical shift of focus in health and population policies and programmes...
... 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, withthe 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 ... for understanding the objectives and elements ofan SP system, the interactions between instruments and programs within the system, and their impact on the economy as a whole. It then uses thisframework...
... income inequalityinLatinAmericaand sub-Saharan Africa areamong the highest inthe world, but the characteristics and sources of inequality differ distinctively. The Colonial Origins of Inequality ... shown in table I.1, Latin America continues to have the dubious distinction of having the highest income inequalityinthe world, as measured by the Gini coeffi-cient. Using other measures, or other ... there is growing debate and awareness about the well-beingcosts of high inequalityinLatin America. Given inequality aversion,for which there is convincing evidence from LatinAmerica (WorldBank...
... 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 ... 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 ... 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...
... 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 ... 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 ... 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...
... 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 withthe 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 ... differences in methodologies, and notwithstanding data limitations, we find that the point estimates are rather clustered for each country (typically within 200 basis points) and consistent with those...
... Americaandthe Caribbean) (2002) Latin America andtheCaribbeaninthe World Economy, 2000–2001, Santiago: ECLAC.ECLAC (Economic Commission for LatinAmericaandthe Caribbean) (2003) Latin America ... slightly, income inequality within countries has increased, particularly in China between the rural and urban sectors. The question is: how much of this rising and persistent inequality across the ... stabilising investment, growth and employment. Ríos-Bolívar and Neme- Castillo study the relationship between international trade and per capita income in 21 countries of LatinAmericaandthe Caribbean...
... Helvetica12 THE MEDIA INLATIN AMERICA Kerrypress Ltd – Typeset in XML A Division: chapter01 F Sequential 12 Edited by Jairo Lugo-Ocando the media in Latin America the media inLatin America Edited ... and mediaaudiences within Cuba itself. Looking at the importance of culturalindustries on the island, especially the film industry after the revolution, and the increasing presence of the internet ... 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...