... —Evaluating Small and Medium Enterprise Support Programs inLatinAmericaand support from the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Division oftheLatinAmericaandCaribbean Region oftheWorld ... commissioned by the World Bankand contains about 1,000 enterprises in ve regions and nine sectors, six of which are in the manufacturing sector. In common with other WorldBank investment climate ... compared to the panels used in high-income country studies. ImpactEvaluation of SME Programs in LatinAmericaand Caribbean www.worldbank.org The World Bank 1818 H Street N.W.Washington, D.C....
... Ministerial Declaration Preventing through education1st Meeting of Ministers of Health and Education to Stop HIV and STIs inLatinAmericaandthe Caribbean Preventing through ... settings, we, the Ministers of Health and Education ofLatinAmericaandthe Caribbean: 1.1 Affirm our commitment to the right to the highest possible level of health, education, non-discrimination ... implementation ofthe Program of Action ofthe International Conference on the Population and Development, of July 2, 19997;z The Declaration ofthe Tenth Ibero-American Summit of Heads of States, of...
... and other services in the poorer parts ofthe country (2). The role ofthe private sectorShifting the financing and/ or delivery of healthservices from the public to the private sector isanother ... health inLatinAmericaand the Caribbean: challenges and opportunities] Mexico,Inter American Development Bank, Population Council, InstitutoNacional de Salud Publica, 2000, (in Spainsh, in press).3. ... assist in the assessment of existing capacity for thesefunctions and to help in strengthening such capacitywhen necessary (7).Continue building on the important role of NGOs. Changes in financing...
... / TheWorld Bank. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in thisvolume do not necessarily reflect the views ofthe Executive Directors ofTheWorldBank or the governments they ... 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 ... (such as mothers and children). They are administered by the 20 Achieving Effective Social Protection for All inLatinAmericaandthe Caribbean insurance systems operating in parallel, often with...
... used in monitoringHRH policies inthe region.Historically, as in other developing region,s the process of construction, dissemination, and utilization of infor-mation on HRH inLatinAmericaand ... state ofthe art HRH metrics inLatin America andthe Caribbean, identifying metrics on specific HRHissues, promoting comparative studies and formulatingnew goals inthe creation of feasible and ... describes the initial efforts of a regional non-governmental initiative in laying the foundation of a fra-mework to analyse the field of human resources forhealth (HRH) inLatinAmericaandthe Caribbean. ...
... that the Chinese might notunderstand the “rules ofthe game” the way the United States does.That is one interpretation of both the crude Chinese nuclear threatsover the Taiwan crisis and Chinese ... the Strategic Integrated Operational Plan (SIOP) in 1960. The SIOPwas intended to bring some order to the targeting process and integrate the burgeoning nuclear forces ofthe different servicesinto a single, ... threats in the future:ã Deterrence of nuclear attacks by threat of nuclear retaliation maycontinue to be the best option against the standard nuclearthreats ofthe past.ã Other kinds of deterrent...
... position inthe field of development finance and this increases their potential to innovate in development approaches and financial instruments. Not only do MDBs inthe region operate within the international ... average lending rates oftheWorldBankandthe IDB during 2003–2011. The global financial crisis caused a structural change inthe price of London interbank offered rate (LIBOR)-based instruments ... (i) improving the financial position ofthe institution by increasing reserves and strengthening lending capacity; (ii) providing grants, increasing concessional lending, or building fiduciary...
... improve the funding structure ofthe banking system, diminishing the exposure of banks and therefore the extent of contagion via interconnectedness. For these reasons, in junctures of excess ... 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 ... short–term external liabilities of banking institutions Peru (2010, 2011) Increase the cost ofbank financing with the aim of shifting the funding structure towards the longer term Tools to manage...
... (World Bank 2000) and Equity (World Bank 2005), as well as reports focusingon Latin America, including the 2004 report InequalityinLatin America: Breaking with History (World Bank 2003) and ... understanding ofthe evolution and nature of in- equality inLatin America, of its spatial and temporal trends, and of the impact of particularly pertinent policy instruments in tackling pov-erty and ... Luiten van Zanden , the participants of the Ibero-American Institute Conference on Latin American Poverty and Inequality (Gottingen, July 2005), andthe participants ofthe third World Bank Inequality...
... importance inthe political and social world as well as inthe intellectual sphere. So, for liberal authors of the 18th andthe beginning ofthe 19th centuries the freedom of opinion was of great ... ofthe press andthe press itself, acompanied by the understanding of its vital necessity for the progress. The appearance ofthe “penny papers” inthe United States andin a certain way also in ... dubious as there areno measurements of power purchase parity because ofthe low reliability ofthe statistics ofthe last remaining dictatorship in Latin America. In any case, according to official...
... was interpolated by obtaining the 12-month ahead inflation projection ofthe corresponding year.For the period prior to the publication of an official inflation target the average yearly inflation ... 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 ... is the nominal short-run (90-day paper) interest rate, the neutral nominal interest rate, stands for the rate of inflation, is the inflation target ofthe central bank, ...
... America andtheCaribbeanintheWorld Economy, 2000–2001, Santiago: ECLAC.ECLAC (Economic Commission for LatinAmericaandthe Caribbean) (2003) Latin America andtheCaribbeanintheWorld Economy, ... view ofmeasuringthe evolution of the development gap ofthe involved countries before and after the inception of the WC model. The chapter is organised in ve sections in addition to this introduction. ... ratio and a drastic increase ofthe income elasticity of imports. Actually, in most Latin American countries the gross investment ratio declined vis- à-vis the investment coefcient of the golden...