... access to vital reproductive health and other services in the poorer parts of thecountry (2). The role of the private sectorShifting the financing and/ or delivery of healthservices from the public ... 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 and budget allocation,service ... promotecapacity-building by ensuring that training and otherinvestments are adapted to local needs. In addition,district managers and planners are closer to the communities they serve, increasing the potential...
... Programs in LatinAmericaand Caribbean Editors:Gladys Lopez AcevedoHong W. TanApril 2010Poverty and Gender UnitPoverty Reduction and Economic Management Sector Latin AmericaandtheCaribbean ... programs in four Latin American countries-Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru. The objective of the research wasto determine which SME programs improve firm performance, andto gain insights into why ... ICS was commissioned by the World Bank and contains about 1,000 enterprises in ve regions and nine sectors, six of which are in the manufacturing sector. In common with other World Bank investment...
... 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 of LatinAmericaandthe Caribbean: 1.1 Affirm our commitment tothe right tothe highest possible level of health, education, non-discrimination ... education1. Preamble Gathered in Mexico City, inthe context of the XVII International AIDS Conference, with the objective of strengthening the response tothe HIV epidemic in formal and non-formal...
... increases the effective marginal The State of Social Protection inLatinAmericaandtheCaribbean 33 insurance; (2) providing guidelines on ways to extend coverage by ration-alizing financing mechanisms ... William Maloney and Martin Rama. 2000. Securing the Future in a Global Economy. Washington, DC: World Bank.10 Achieving Effective Social Protection for All inLatinAmericaandthe Caribbean capacity—usually ... realities of the region. They recognize that the starting points, constraints, and social choices will vary by country, and avoid the trap of recommending a simple blueprint. Rather, the bookinvites...
... shows the sample means and measures of the variability of the nominal and real yields andthe BEIR. The drop inthe mean and variability of the BEIR inthe latter half of the sample coincides ... a nominal bond, we obtain a nominal ytm. Inthe case of the RRB, we use the market price andthe real coupon rate to obtain a real ytm. Inthe absence of distortions, the spread between the ... will tend to rise to a greater degree than the increase in inflation expectations. If the BEIR is to be used to indicate the credibility of the central bank, the existence of the inflation-risk...
... race, sex, and class and of the ways in which, hand in hand, the New Imperialism and the New Journalism brought Britain into the twentieth century. The war at home which included the direct ... public opinion is nevertheless impossible to pindown. Since the first Gallup polls inthe United States and Britain in the s, public opinion has come to mean something very specific and, most ... Mafeking in the news throughout the siege, updating readers on the occasional sortiesfrom the town, the food stocks, andthe mood of the garrison. The tacticsof the Daily Mail captured the attention...
... University in Montreal, the Huntington Library in California, the College of Physicians in Philadelphia, the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda andthe Library of Congress in Washington, DC, the ... lectures inthe University's medical school, beginning inthe closing years of the 1760s and continu-ing until his death in 1773. He also taught inthe Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, an institution ... primarily to protecting and promoting our interests when we become their patients rather than protecting and promoting their own interests in such matters as income, job security and advancement,...
... (Figs 3 and 4). The reducing equivalentsflow from the nicotinamide of NADPH via the flavin and the pair Cys57/Cys62 tothe redox centre Cys500’/Cys501’of the other subunit, and hence tothe disulfide ... and oxidative stress imposedby NO and peroxynitrite play a dominating role in the host’s defence against the parasite [50,51]. The insect cells, in turn, have to protect themselves against these ... role in host–parasite interactions, not only in human blood but alsoinside the insect vector. The differences between the enzyme systems involved in antioxidative metabolism offer an interesting...
... as a macroprudential tool 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 ... Heating Up inthe South , Cooler in the North, October (Washington: International Monetary Fund). ___________, 2011b, “Key Risks and Challenges for Sustaining Financial Stability,” Global Financial ... Brazil, Colombia and Peru have actively relied on RRs as a tool to “lean against the wind”: (i) raising RRs during the upswing phase of the cycle to contain excessive credit growth andthe associated...
... of the printing press to disseminate such findings, printing becamea major force behind the success of the Reformation andthe secularisa-tion of European society. Printing also appeared to ... attempted to con-trol news flows internally by releasing a flood of supportive information and suppressing contrary stories and externally by feeding information to their vassal papers in Avignon and ... this involved maintaining a discreet silence over domestic politicalaffairs. This was true even inthe Netherlands, where the press otherwiseenjoyed a broad de facto freedom, and yet until the...
... 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 ... research needs to be 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...