... health inLatinAmericaand the
Caribbean: challenges and opportunities] Mexico,
Inter American Development Bank, Population Council, Instituto
Nacional de Salud Publica, 2000, (in Spainsh, in press).
3. ... 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 ... (2).
Growth inthe size and influence of civil society
in Brazil since the 1980s has facilitated the positive
change. Increasingly democratic processes have
lengthened the policy decision-making process,...
... Programs
in LatinAmericaand Caribbean
Editors:
Gladys Lopez Acevedo
Hong W. Tan
April 2010
Poverty and Gender Unit
Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Sector
Latin AmericaandtheCaribbean ... Reserved
Printing and Manufactured in Mexico / 2010
First Printing: January, 2010
The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this book are entirely
those of the authors and should ... Division of theLatinAmericaandCaribbean Region of the World
Bank. The objective of the study was to rigorously evaluate small and medium enterprise
(SME) programs in four Latin American countries—Mexico,...
... Ministerial Declaration
Preventing through education
1
st
Meeting of Ministers of Health and Education
to Stop HIV and STIs inLatinAmericaandthe Caribbean
Preventing through ... education
1. 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 LatinAmericaandthe Caribbean:
1.1 Affirm our commitment to the right to the highest possible level of health, education,
non-discrimination...
... 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 ... for understanding this sort of interaction effect
in LAC remains limited and further research is needed.
34 Achieving Effective Social Protection for All inLatinAmericaandthe Caribbean
drawback ... 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 book
invites...
... 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 ...
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 ... 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...
... income inequality inLatinAmericaand sub-Saharan Africa are
among the highest inthe world, but the characteristics and sources of
inequality differ distinctively.
The Colonial Origins of Inequality ... there is growing debate and awareness about the well-being
costs of high inequality inLatin America. Given inequality aversion,
for which there is convincing evidence from LatinAmerica (World
Bank ... policy issue inLatin America, as
well as the new emphasis on its development impacts. First, inequality
was and is extremely high inLatin America. As shown in table I.1,
Latin America continues to...
... maintain their
relevance inthe future. Another reason is that MDBs are important sources and promoters of
knowledge and innovation in development thinking and ideas for intervention, and they ...
sector in 2011, the IIC allocated US$465.0 million, and FOMIN allocated US$108.0 million.
SRDBs are also innovating and competing in these areas and complementing the operations
of other MDBs. The ...
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...
... press andthe press itself, acompanied by the understanding of its vital necessity for
the progress.
The appearance of the “penny papers” inthe United States andin a certain way also inthe whole ... nowadays holds the sad title of being the country with the strongest decline in
the region loosing three points inthe hands of those gangs. This causes that Mexico is the country in which most
journalists ... leads again the Press Freedom and Economic Development ranking for LatinAmericain
2008.
Costa Rica suffered a strong decrease inthe score but without loosing the second position inthe
regional...
... 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 ... 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 ... 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: ...
... 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 ... drastic
increase of the income elasticity of imports. Actually, in most Latin American
countries the gross investment ratio declined vis- à-vis the investment coefcient
of the golden age of the...
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the media in
Latin America
the media inLatin America
Edited ... O2 brand); the Slovak Republic
(under the O2 brand); Germany (under the O2 brand); the Republic of
Ireland (under the O2 brand); andthe UK (under the O2 brand). The
MoviStar name has been in use ... and media
audiences within Cuba itself. Looking at the importance of cultural
industries on the island, especially the film industry after the revolution,
and the increasing presence of the internet...