... guarantees and interest subsidies The study focused on three assistance clusters in Northern Ireland (training, marketing and upgrading machinery and equipment), and two inthe Republic of Ireland (marketing ... had participated in it inthe past and, if so, in what year; (iv) the monetary value of the incentive; and (v) how they rated the importance of the program for their business.18 The different programs ... treatment increased R&D spending and R&D intensity (of about 3%) in both the full sample of firms andinthe sub-sample of innovative firms, and they rejected the hypothesis of subsidies crowding out...
... operate in parallel, duplicating service delivery infrastructure The absence of links between financing and productivity or quality andtheThe State of Social Protection inLatinAmericaandtheCaribbean ... additional informality will depend on the relative productivity of the formal and informal sectors If productivity (and, therefore, wages) inthe formal sector are much higher than those inthe informal ... for understanding this sort of interaction effect in LAC remains limited and further research is needed The State of Social Protection inLatinAmericaandtheCaribbean 35 Figure 1.14 The Impact...
... health inLatinAmerica coordination among the different levels of the health system in both the public and private sectors Standardized norms for high quality service provision, including reproductive ... reproductive health and other services inthe poorer parts of the country (2) The role of the private sector Shifting the financing and/ or delivery of health services from the public to the private sector ... assessment of existing capacity for these functions and to help in strengthening such capacity when necessary (7) Continue building on the important role of NGOs Changes in financing and decentralization...
... 2009; inthe VI CONCASIDA Conference in San Jose, Costa Rica in October, 2009; andintheLatin American andCaribbean FORUM on HIV/AIDS and STD in Lima, Peru in May, 2009 Recognize the need for technical ... teaching colleges to inservice training for existing teachers By the year 2015, all teacher-training programs, under the jurisdiction of the Ministries of Education, for both formal and non-formal ... inthe XVIII Ibero-American Summit of Heads of State in San Salvador, El Salvador in October of 2008; inthe V Summit of the Americas in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago in April of 2009; in...
... efficiency (inputs and outpurs) inLatinAmericaandthe Caribbean, 2005-8 38 Table Indicators of health care expenditures inLatinAmericaandthe Caribbean, 2005 44 Table Financial indicators ... Reforms inLatinAmerica (Oxford University Press, 2008) He has worked in all the countries of LatinAmericaand several inthe Caribbean, as a regional advisor fortheEconomic Commission for ... Perkins and Emily Morrell for arrangements_ and Valerie Hall forthe editing work The author hopes that this book will help LatinAmericaandthe Caribbean, as well as other emerging and developing...
... 13 Katz Broadband demand andeconomicimpactinLatinAmerica AN ESTIMATION OF THEBROADBAND DEMAND How much additional broadband capacity is needed inLatinAmerica to close thebroadband gap ... Katz Broadband demand andeconomicimpactinLatinAmerica INTRODUCTION LatinAmerica lags most regions of the world with regards to broadband penetration Average broadband density in 2008 ... impactinLatinAmerica Based on the estimates of the Argentine model, we have estimated theimpact on job creation if theLatin American nations were to increase the installation of broadband lines...
... SciELO, EBSCO, the WHO search engine, andthe Virtual Health Library were searched In order to narrow the information we used the following keywords in Spanish (and the corresponding words in Portuguese): ... review andthe systematization of the information collected and was responsible forthe study design and analysis MM participated inthe development of the theoretical framework andthe final analysis ... participated inthe design of the analytical strategy VC participated inthe literature review, and PM and SG participated inthe analysis of final information All authors have read and approved the final...
... cross-diffusion models without stage-structure inthe case that the space dimension n In this paper, we consider mainly the existence and uniform boundedness of global solutions forthemodel 1.1 with nonlinear ... d Proof of Theorem 2.1 Step Estimate |u|1 , |v|1 ,|w|1 Firstly, taking integration of the first and second equations in 2.7 over the domain 0, , respectively, and combining the two integration ... α23 α31 α32 0, then 1.1 reduces to the system 1.4 of Part I Recently, the work in 18–20 studied the existence, uniform boundedness, and uniform convergence of global solutions forthe Lotka-Volterra...
... “lean 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 downswing ... business loan interest rates and on strengthening the passthrough from policy to deposit and lending interest rates These findings, more generally support the use of RRs as a policy instrument in ... 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...
... and TV will also be important forthe country´s evaluation next year Economic liberty ForLatin America, as well as forthe rest of the world, the Index of Economic Freedom inLatinAmericaEconomic ... Freedom andEconomic Development inLatinAmerica 2008 Discrimination inthe Media that seemed to aim at pointing out media coverage not appreciated by the executive power On the other hand, the ... into a sort of laboratory testing the hypothesis Once the Berlin Wall fell down, the Cold War was over andthe processes of democratization started inLatinAmericaand some other countries in...
... undertaken in understating the mechanics of MaPPs, including quantifying their impact on credit, the output gap, and thus NRIR, and investigating whether their effect is temporary or permanent The NRIR ... stands forthe nominal domestic (international) interest rate, forthe expected nominal rate of depreciation of the domestic currency, andforthe country risk premium In turn, the expected nominal ... of the policy rate by hindering the proper functioning of the transmission channel of monetary policy (see Medina Cas and others, 2011a,b) Indeed, muted inflationary pressures and tightening financial...
... Lensink Liberalization inthe Developing World Institutional andeconomic changes inLatin America, Africa and Asia Edited by Alex E Fernández Jilberto and André Mommen Financial Development and ... investment inLatinAmerica (after Brazil and Mexico) in absolute terms andthe second in per capita terms after Trinidad and Tobago Using an augmented gravity model, the author finds that bilateral investment ... reforms applied by different countries inthe region, on the one hand, andthe experience of integration into the global economy, on the other There are 13 chapters in this collection linked in...
... democracies inLatinAmerica are increasingly coming under question for their inability to provide sustainable ways of life for their citizens andfor having fallen short of meeting initial expectations ... /production/mcgraw−hill/booksxml/lugo/chapter01 THE MEDIA INLATINAMERICA poorest inthe region have to pay to sit inthe back of someone else’s car to drive them through the information superhighway Furthermore, many of these nations find ... itself Looking at the importance of cultural industries on the island, especially the film industry after the revolution, andthe increasing presence of the internet and satellite television, the Kerrypress...
... surprising that there has been such a resurgence of interest in analyzing the dynamics and determinants of poverty and inequality, andthe relationship of policies affecting them inLatinAmerica Introduction ... issue inLatin America, as well as the new emphasis on its development impacts First, inequality was and is extremely high inLatinAmerica As shown in table I.1, LatinAmerica continues to have the ... that west and central Africa andLatinAmerica show very different results: inLatinAmerica land inequality is largely driving income inequality, whereas income inequality in west and central...
... Lensink Liberalization inthe Developing World Institutional andeconomic changes inLatin America, Africa and Asia Edited by Alex E Fernández Jilberto and André Mommen Financial Development and ... investment inLatinAmerica (after Brazil and Mexico) in absolute terms andthe second in per capita terms after Trinidad and Tobago Using an augmented gravity model, the author finds that bilateral investment ... reforms applied by different countries inthe region, on the one hand, andthe experience of integration into the global economy, on the other There are 13 chapters in this collection linked in...