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Recent Publications

• La Inclusión de las Mujeres en los Procesos de Reforma Política en América Latina
• Governing the Metropolis
• Volver al Centro
• Transparency and Corruption in the Health Sector: A Conceptual Framework and Ideas for Action in Latin American and the Caribbean
• The political economy of health reforms: a model to evaluate actors and strategies
• INCREMENTAL CONSTRUCTION. A Strategy to Facilitate Access to Housing Proposals Based on an Enabling Approach to Housing Markets

Best Practices

• ASYMMETRIES in Regional Integration and Local Development

  By Francesco Lanzafame, Paolo Giordano (07/05, SDS/SOC, En, Es)

• ECCD Guide: A Toolkit for Early Childhood Care and Development

  By Ricardo Morán, Robert Myers (03/99, SOC, En, Es)

• Emphasizing Prevention in Citizen Security

  By Jorge Lamas, Erik Alda, Mayra Buvinic (09/05, SOC-141, En, Es)

• Globalization, Transmissible Diseases and Inequity

  By André Medici (08/03, SOC, En, Es)

• La convergencia de los fondos de crédito municipal y de inversión social: el caso de Bolivia

  By Jose Brakarz (06/03, SOC-134, En, Es)

• Monitoring Urban Markets: The Experience of Latin American Cities

  (01/95, En, Es)

• Nota Técnica: Informe sobre la implementación de la estrategia de desarrollo subnacional

  By Jose Brakarz, Catalina Perdomo (01/05, SDS/SOC, Es)

• The Long Road to Housing Reform

  By Eduardo Rojas (07/99, SOC-113, En, Es)

• The political economy of health reforms: a model to evaluate actors and strategies

  By André Medici, Daniel Maceira (04/07, SDS/SOC, En, Es)

•  Transparency and Corruption in the Health Sector: A Conceptual Framework and Ideas for Action in Latin American and the Caribbean

  By William Savedoff (05/07, SDS/SOC, En, Es)

• Urban Heritage Conservation in Latin America and the Caribbean. A Task for all Social Actors

  By Eduardo Rojas (11/02, SDS/SOC, En, Es)

•  Volver al Centro

  By Eduardo Rojas (06/07, SDS/SOC, En, Es)

Books and Magazines

• Assault to Development: Violence in Latin America

  By Rodrigo Guerrero, Alejandro Gaviria, Juan Luis Londoño (05/01, SOC, Es)

• Breaking the Poverty Cycle: Investing in Early Childhood

  (03/99, SOC, En, Es)

• Cities for All

  By Jose Brakarz, Eduardo Rojas, Margarita Greene (07/02, SDS/SOC, En, Es)

• Diálogo social en América Latina: Un camino hacia la democracia ciudadana

  (03/06, SOC, Es)

• El desafío de la descentralización: Financiamiento público de la Salud en Brasil

  By André Medici (08/02, SOC, En, Es)

• Escaping the Poverty Trap

  By Ricardo Morán (01/03, SOC, En, Es)

•  Governing the Metropolis

  By Eduardo Rojas (06/07, SDS/SOC, En, Es)

• La ciudad en el siglo XXI

  By Robert Daughters, Eduardo Rojas (03/98, SOC, En, Es)

• Old Cities, New Assets. Preserving Latin America's Urban Heritage

  By Eduardo Rojas (08/99, SOC, En, Es)

• Shrouded in Silence: Domestic Violence in Uruguay

  By María Teresa Traverso (05/01, SOC, En, Es)

• Sistema de Cuentas de Salud

  (08/02, SOC, En, Es)

• Social Inclusion in Action

  (09/04, SOC, En)

• Sustaining Development for All: Expanding Access to Economic Activity and Social Services

  (06/06, SDS/SDS, En, Es)

• The Challenge of an Urban Continent

  By Eduardo Rojas (02/04, SOC, En, Es)

• Too Close to Home: Domestic Violence in the Americas

  By Loreto Biehl, Andrew Morrison (04/99, SOC, En, Es)

• Una obra en marcha

  (02/02, SOC, En, Es)

Newsletters

• Violence Prevention Mayors Network Newsletter

  (01/00, SOC, En, Es)

Strategies and Policies

• Health Strategy Profile (framework for the Bank action in the sector)

  (01/05, SDS/SOC, En, Es)

• International Physical Activity Policy Development: A Commentary

  By Alfredo Solari, Becky Lankenau, Michael Pratt (07/04, SOC, En, Es)

• Operational Guidelines for Housing

  By Michael Jacobs, Eduardo Rojas, William Savedoff (12/00, SOC-111, En, Es)

• Social Development. Strategy Document

  By SDS (07/03, GN-2241-1, En, Es)

• Subnational Development Strategy

  (06/01, SOC-124, En, Es)

• Supporting Reform in the Delivery of Social Services

  (08/96, SOC-101, En, Es)

Technical Studies

• Action Plan for Combating Social Exclusion due to Race or Ethnic Background

  By SDS/SOC (12/02, En, Es)

• Assessment of Participatory Budgeting in Brazil (draft version)

  (10/03, SOC, En, Es)

• Breaking the Poverty Cycle: Keynote Addresses

  By Amartya Sen, Gro Harlem Brundtland (11/99, SOC-114, En, Es)

• City and Marginality: Territorial, Economic and Social Integration Strategies

  (03/04, SOC, En, Es)

• Consideraciones para el diseño y evaluación de programas y proyectos sobre trabajo infantil y de adolescentes

  By Dwight Ordóñez Bustamante, Patricia Bracamonte Bardález (12/05, SOC-140, En, Es)

• Core Labor Standards and Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean

  By Christian Daude, Andrew Morrison, Jacqueline Mazza (10/03, SOC, En, Es)

• Cultura ciudadana, programa contra la violencia en Santa Fe de Bogotá, Colombia, 1995-1997

  By Antanas Mockus (04/02, SOC-127, Es)

• Domestic Violence: Intervention for Prevention and Treatment

  (01/02, SOC, Es)

• Economic and Health Effects of Occupational Hazards

  By William Savedoff, Antonio Giuffrida, Roberto F. Iunes (06/01, SOC-121, En, Es)

• El programa de vivienda progresiva en Chile, 1990-2002

  By Margarita Greene (11/04, SOC, En, Es)

• El sector salud en los proyectos del BID: Una evaluación preliminar

  By André Medici, Alfredo Solari (04/02, SOC, Es)

• Enclave Projects

  (03/05, SDS/SOC, En, Es)

• Encuesta del BID a actores clave del sector salud en América Latina y el Caribe

  (03/05, SDS/SOC, En, Es)

• Family Spending on Health in Brazil

  By André Medici (09/02, SOC-129, En, Es)

• Family Violence and Child Abuse in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Case of Colombia and Mexico

  By Felicia Knaul, Miguel Ángel Ramírez (02/05, SOC-137, En, Es)

• Financiamiento y gasto en respuesta al VIH/SIDA

  By Ricardo Valladares Cardona, José A. Izazola-Licea (05/03, SOC, Es)

• Financing Health Policies in Brazil

  By André Medici (01/03, SOC, En, Es)

• Gender Inequality in Health and Work: The Case of Latin America and the Caribbean

  By Mayra Buvinic, Antonio Giuffrida, Amanda Glassman (08/02, SOC-128, En)

• Getting Results in Housing

  By Michael Jacobs, Shlomo Angel (08/06, SDS/SOC, En, Es)

• Guidelines for the Design of Violence Reduction Projects

  (06/03, SOC-135, En, Es)

• Health Financing Innovations in the Caribbean: EHPO© and the National Health Fund of Jamaica

  By Raphael Barrett, Stanley Lalta (12/04, SOC-138, En)

• Health Policies and Economic Blocks

  By André Medici, Bernardo Weaver Barros (08/06, SDS/SOC, En, Es)

• Health and Poverty in Brazil: Estimation by Structural Equation Model with Latent Variables

  By Antonio Giuffrida, William Savedoff, Roberto F. Iunes (03/05, SOC, En, Es)

• Informal Employment in Latin America and the Caribbean: Causes, Consequences and Policy Recommendations

  By Samuel Freije (07/02, SOC, En, Es)

• Iniciativas del BID en temas de mercado laboral 1990-2002

  By Jacqueline Mazza, Andrew Morrison, Ignacio Fiestas (05/03, SOC, En, Es)

• Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations in Latin America: Policy Design and Policy Outcomes

  By Richard Bird (01/01, SDS/SOC, En, Es)

• Is Anybody Listening? Ignoring Evidence in the Latin American Health Reform Debates

  By William Savedoff (09/01, SOC, En, Es)

• La gobernabilidad de las aglomeraciones metropolitanas de América Latina y el Caribe

  By Eduardo Rojas (11/04, SOC, En, Es)

• La prevención del VIH/SIDA en América Latina y el Caribe

  By Carlos F. Cáceres (05/03, SOC-131, Es)

• Latin American Labor Markets in the 1990's: Deciphering the Decade.

  By Suzanne Duryea, Olga Jaramillo, Carmen Pages (07/02, SOC, En, Es)

• Learning from the Experience: The Inter-American Development Bank and Pharmaceuticals

  By Antonio Giuffrida (09/01, SOC-123, En, Es)

• Lending for Urban Heritage Conservation

  By Eduardo Rojas, Claudio de Moura Castro (10/99, SOC-105, En, Es)

• Making Decentralization Work in Latin America and the Caribbean

  (04/02, SOC-119, En, Es)

• Occupational Safety and Health in Latin America and the Caribbean: Overview, Issues and Policy Recommendations

  By Roberto F. Iunes (07/02, SOC, En, Es)

• Papers Presented at the Conference: Dialogues on Civic Coexistence - Chile, 1999

  (12/99, SOC, En, Es)

• Papers presented at the Conference: Violence Prevention Municipal Programs - Brazil, 1999

  (12/99, SOC, Es)

• Papers presented at the Conference: Dialogue on Citizen Coexistence - Ecuador 2001

  (03/01, SOC, Es)

• Perspectivas del sistema previsional argentino y evaluación de políticas para expandir la cobertura

  By Carlos Grushka (01/04, SOC, En, Es)

• Primer Seminario Técnico de Consulta Regional sobre Temas Laborales. Ciudad de Panamá

  (01/02, SOC, En, Es)

• Public Purchaser-Private Provider Contracting for Health Services

  By William Savedoff, Katherine Slack (04/01, SOC-111, En)

• Reaching the Poor through Demand Subsidies: The Colombian Health Reform

  By William Savedoff (10/03, SOC, En)

• Resource Requirements to Fight HIV/AIDS in Latin America and the Caribbean

  By Ernest Massiah (03/04, SOC-136, En)

• Searching for Essential Health Services in Low and Middle Income Countries

  By José Luis Bobadilla (06/98, SOC-106, En)

• Segundo Seminario Técnico de Consulta Regional sobre Temas Laborales. Lima, Perú

  (08/02, SDS/SOC, En, Es)

• Stigma, Discrimination and HIV/AIDS in Latin America and the Caribbean

  By Peter Aggleton, Richard Parker, Miriam Maluwa (05/03, SOC-130, En, Es)

• Studies on Violence Cost and Magnitude

  (12/99, SOC, En, Es)

• Subsidies in Housing

  By Stephen K. Mayo (06/99, SOC-112, En, Es)

• Technical Notes: Violence Prevention

  (07/99, SOC, En, Es)

• Tercer Seminario Técnico de Consulta Regional sobre Temas Laborales. Buenos Aires, Argentina.

  (10/02, SOC, En, Es)

• The People's Health Insurance Program in Mexico

  By Gustavo Nigenda (04/05, SOC, En, Es)

• The Political Economy of Reform in Brazil's Civil Servant Pension Scheme

  By André Medici (09/04, SOC, En, Es)

• Training the Workforce in Latin America: What Needs to be Done?

  By Gustavo Márquez (07/02, SOC, En, Es)

• Una propuesta de evaluación económica del programa de salud de la familia de Brasil

  By Antonio C. Coelho Campino, Rodrigo A. Moreno Serra (01/04, SOC, En, Es)

• Violence Prevention Programs Database

  (02/00, SOC, Es)

• What To Do With Public Rental Housing? Challenges and Options

  By Nelliana Villoria Siegert (08/04, SOC, En, Es)

• Women in the Latin American Labor Market: The Remarkable 1990's

  By Suzanne Duryea, Alexandra Cox, Manuelita Ureta (07/02, SOC, En, Es)

Videos and Electronic Media

• Battered Lives, Broken Trust: When Men Abuse Women

  (01/98, SOC, En, Es)

• Breaking the Poverty Cycle: Investing in Early Childhood

  (08/99, En, Es)

• From Rage to Recovery: Societies Search for Peace

  (01/98, SOC, En, Es)

• Video Vida sana es más vida

  By SDS/SOC (06/01, SOC, En, Es)

Working Papers

• Evaluating Social Security Reform in Argentina during the 1990s

  By André Medici (04/03, SOC, En, Es)

• Health Reforms and Interest Groups in Latin America

  By Daniel Maceira (03/07, SOC, En, Es)

• INCREMENTAL CONSTRUCTION. A Strategy to Facilitate Access to Housing Proposals Based on an Enabling Approach to Housing Markets

  By Margarita Greene, Eduardo Rojas (03/07, SDS/SOC, En, Es)

•  La Inclusión de las Mujeres en los Procesos de Reforma Política en América Latina

  By Line Bareiro, Clyde Soto, Lilian Soto (06/07, SDS/SOC, Es)

• La desregulación de las Obras Sociales

  By André Medici (08/02, SOC, Es)

• Labor Intermediation Services: A Review for Latin America and Caribbean Countries.

  By Jacqueline Mazza (07/02, SOC, En, Es)

• Las AFJP y las compañías de seguro de retiro en la Argentina

  By Colina Jorge (11/03, SOC, Es)

• Latin American Youth in Transition: A Policy Paper on Youth Unemployment in Latin America

  By Caroline Fawcett (07/02, SOC, En, Es)

• Micro-finance of housing: a key to housing the low or moderate-income majority?

  By Bruce Ferguson (06/99, SOC, En, Es)

• Políticas para promoción del acceso a medicamentos: El caso del Programa Remediar de Argentina

  By Federico Tovar (01/04, SOC, En, Es)

• Public and Private Health Financing in Latin American and The Caribbean during the Ninities: A Brief Analysis

  By André Medici (06/05, SOC, En, Es)

• Reaching the Poor through Demand Subsidies: The Colombian Health Reform

  By William Savedoff (01/03, SOC, En, Es)

• Report of the Consultation to Support the Inter-American Development Bank's Health Strategy

  By André Medici, Alfredo Solari, Elisa Fernandez , George Alleyne (02/05, SDS/SOC, En, Es)

• Sharpening the Bank's Capacity to Support the Housing Sector in Latin America and the Caribbean

  By Eduardo Rojas (09/06, SDS/SOC, En, Es)

• Street-children and the IDB: Lessons from Brazil

  By Ricardo Morán, Claudio de Moura Castro (05/99, SOC, En, Es)

• The IDB in Low-Cost Housing: The First Three Decades

  By Eduardo Rojas (03/95, SOC, En)

• The Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty: Some Causes and Policy Implications

  By Tarsicio Castañeda (04/99, SOC, En)

• The Social Spatial Segregation in the Cities of Latin America

  By Francisco Sabatini (03/06, SDS/SOC, En, Es)

• The Uses of Cost Analysis in Early Child Care and Development (ECCD) programs

  By Ricardo Morán, Robert Myers, Manuel Zymelman (05/99, SOC, En, Es)

• Thinking Outside the Box: Strategies and Examples for in the Preservation and Development of Heritage

  By Marina Galvani (04/04, SDS/SOC, En)

• Thinking outside the Box: Arguments for IADB's Involvement in the Preservation and Development of Heritage

  By Marina Galvani (04/04, SDS/SOC, En)

• Vulnerability and Resilience: Gender and HIV/AIDS in Latin America and the Caribbean

  By Geeta Rao Gupta (09/02, SOC, En, Es)

• What Makes Inter-Agency Coordination Work?: Insights from the Literature and Two Case Studies

  By Rodrigo Serrano (08/03, SOC, En, Es)

• Workers' Health in Latin America: An Econometric Analysis of Work-Related Injuries

  By Antonio Giuffrida, Roberto F. Iunes, Héctor Macías (12/01, SOC, En)

Last updated: 06/01/07

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