... gathered in advance of the workshops, and PC/LAC was ableroughly to assess and compare the situations in the countries based on a number of relevant indicators,including changes in financing ... AmeÂrica Latina y el Caribe: desafõÂos y opportunidades[Sexual and reproductive health inLatinAmericaand the Caribbean: challenges and opportunities] Mexico,Inter American Development Bank, ... shouldbe involved inthe goal-setting and indicator selectionprocess, as well as the management and evaluation ofhealth services (7). To help ensure that the radicalchanges in organization and management...
... Programs in LatinAmericaand Caribbean Editors:Gladys Lopez AcevedoHong W. TanApril 2010Poverty and Gender UnitPoverty Reduction and Economic Management Sector Latin AmericaandtheCaribbean ... improvements in administration, planning and marketing, increased managerial and worker training, and greater access to other public insti-tutions for extension services, consultants, and funds ... of the Latin AmericaandCaribbean Region of the World Bank.measures of rm performance varying by country, and differences in impacts across programs. The analyses highlighted the importance...
... Ministerial Declaration Preventing through education1st Meeting of Ministers of Health and Education to Stop HIV and STIs inLatinAmericaandthe Caribbean Preventing through ... adolescents and youth in our countries inan environment free from violence, stigma and discrimination. This requires increasing and strengthening efforts to guarantee access and continued school ... 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...
... Changing the opaque and often regressive nature of financing and re-distribution arrangements for SI andthe associated lack of financialsustainability for many programs and systems.ã Reinforcing ... 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 ... groups (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...
... ting inthe preparation of and discussion about this document. COCORHS is a member network of the Latin American andtheCaribbean Health Observatory, an initiativecoordinated by the Mexican ... review andthe systematization of the information collected and was responsible for the study design and analysis.MM participated inthe development of the theoretical framework and the final analysis. ... participated inthe design of the analytical strategy. VCparticipated inthe literature review, and PM and SG participated in the analysis of final information. All authors have read and approved the finalmanuscript.Authors’...
... trade-off. B. The Recent Latin American Experience Latin American central banks have proactively used RRs in a countercyclical manner to manage the credit and liquidity cycle and anchor the stability ... 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 ... “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...
... endowments (land, people, climate, and soil) and settler condi-6 Stephan Klasen and Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann Poverty, Inequality, and Policy inLatin America: An IntroductionStephan Klasen and Felicitas ... golden age in LatinAmerica between 1870 and 1914) are adversely distributed to the landowners at the expense of the landless, the purchasing power of the landless remains limited. The more the growth ... land holdings. Indeed, the estimated landGinis of socialist Eastern European countries inthe 1970s and 1980sdisplay extreme land inequality since private small holders and com-munal holdings...
... prevention and preparedness are Multisector and Other; banking and financial services, and business and other services are Financing and Business; and government and civil society - general and conflict, ... is the ratio between net outstanding loans andthe sum of paid capital and retained earnings. Source: Annual financial statements of institutions. First, the IDB and SRDBs have expanded their ... direct loans and investments, and US$300.60 million in cofinancing operations, AR2007 shows US$470.00 million approved in direct loans and investments, and US$273.00 million in cofinancing operations,...
... committed towards the human race”2.A key author in order to understand the process of installing modern democracies andthe feelings and opinions thatthose aroused in Europe andthe Western world ... penal code.On the other hand the greatest improvement took place in Haiti which was able to overcome Guatemala and Columbia in the ranking thanks to the investigations and trials against murderers ... taking intoconsideration the extent of this decline one notices that the declinewas more noticeable than the advances.Outstanding is the case of Chile which apart from being the only Latin American...
... 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 (see ... enhanced fiscal consolidation and monetary credibility, lower exchange rate risk and inflation premiums, as well as the easing in global financial conditions; (explaining the drivers behind the ... Output, Interest, and Inflation Gaps 34 9. Model and IMF Desk’s Output Gap Estimations 35 4 I. INTRODUCTION An increasing number of Latin American countries have been recently strengthening...
... Americaandthe Caribbean) (2002) Latin America andtheCaribbeaninthe World Economy, 2000–2001, Santiago: ECLAC.ECLAC (Economic Commission for LatinAmericaandthe Caribbean) (2003) Latin America ... stabilising investment, growth and employment. Ríos-Bolívar and Neme- Castillo study the relationship between international trade and per capita income in 21 countries of LatinAmericaandtheCaribbean ... matrix containing all independent variables, k, for each Latin American andtheCaribbean country. In this case, these variables are the loga-rithms of the growth rates of population and technology...
... 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 ... structures and privileges. They examine the continuity and changes inthe media system in Brazil as an explanatory framework, referring to the US system as apredominant inspiration for the commercial ... 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...