... (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 ... (i) raising RRs duringthe upswing phase of the cycle to contain excessive credit growth and the associated build up of vulnerabilities and (ii) lowering them duringthe downswing phase to ease...
... 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...
... 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...
... arround the continent forwards andbackwards in time. So his view extends to corruption duringthe 90s in Peru, the behaviour of the American press duringthe war on Iraq, o the complicity that the ... 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...
... Christmas flower, the poinsettia, was named in compliment to Mr.Poinsett. These interesting women for many years were inthe habit of leaving what they called their"Carolina" home for ... giving money andtobacco to the crew, of his being extremely intimate with them, that he had a strange flashing of the eye, andfinally that he was inthe habit of amusing the sailors by making ... hearing my three maiden aunts, my father's sisters, playing in turn the inspiringScotch airs upon the Astor piano that stood in their drawing-room. One of their songs was especially inimicalto...
... 53] In the following century, Derham gathered from observations carried on duringthe years 1703-11, "That the spots on the sun are caused by the eruption of some new volcano therein, ... material inthe Milky Way, even pointing out the space left dark and void by the withdrawal of the luminous stuff; and Kepler, theorising on a similar stellar apparition in 1604, followed nearly in ... "watching the heavens." The apparent motions of the stars had been disentangled; one portion A POPULAR HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY BY THE SAME AUTHOR PROBLEMS IN...
... from the sacred valley of the Nile. Inthe zodiacs of the New World inthe Mexican, for instance, of which we discover the vestiges inthe signs of the days, and the periodical series which they ... towards the Amazon, inthe province of Jaen de Bracamoros; and thus far the Incas had carried their arms, their religion, and their arts. The inhabitants of the Orinoco were also, before the conquest, ... difficulty the Rio Uaupe inthe Guaupe or Guape; the Xie, inthe Guaicia; the Raudal de Atures, in Athule; the Caribbees, inthe Calinas and Galibis; the Guaraunos or Uarau, inthe Oaraw-its; etc....
... 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 ... ‘Labor markets duringthe 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 ... 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,...