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The working papers listed here are being published with the sole objective of contributing to the debate on a topic of importance to the region, and to elicit comments and suggestions from interested parties. These papers have not gone through the Sustainable Development Department?s peer review process or undergone consideration by the SDS Management Team. As such, they do not reflect the official position of the Inter-American Development Bank.

• A Proposed Strategy to Encourage and Facilitate Improved Water Resources Management in Latin America and the Caribbean

  By Morris Israel, Douglas Kenney, William B. Lord (03/96, ENV, En, Es)

• Adecuación de servicios financieros a las economías tradicionales indígenas

  By Carlos César Perafán (05/00, IND, En, Es)

• An Economic Interpretation of Colombia's SISBEN: A Composite Welfare Index Derived from the Optimal Scaling Algorithm

  By Elkin Castaño, Ruthanne Deutsch, Eduardo Vélez (11/98, En)

• An Inventory of Poverty Lines for Latin America and the Caribbean: 1985-1997

  By José Antonio Mejía (10/98, En, Es)

• Biocombustibles: ¿La formula mágica para las economías rurales de ALC?

  By Peter Pfaumann (11/06, Es)

• Brown Bag Seminar Papers prepared for the Poverty and Inequality Advisory Unit

  By Poverty and Inequality Unit (05/99, POV, En)

• Can Education Explain Changes in Income Inequality in Mexico?

  By César Bouillon, Arianna Legovini, Nora Lustig (12/01, POV, En)

• Captura de carbono y desarrollo forestal sostenible en la Patagonia Argentina: Sinergias y Desafíos

  By Martina Chidiak, Carlos Greco, Alejandra Moreyra (10/04, Es)

• Climate Change in LAC: A Review of the Bonn and Marrakech Decisions and their Effect on the Clean Development Mechanism of Kyoto Protocol

  By Carla della Maggiora (05/02, ENV, En)

• Climbing a Moving Mountain: Explaining the Decline in Income Inequality in Brazil from 1976 to 1996

  By Francisco H.G. Ferreira , Ricardo Paes de Barros (10/98, En)

• Concept Paper for Bank Support to Pre-Qualification of Oil and Gas Exploration/Production Blocks Andean/Amazon Basin Countries

  By Madeleine Donahue (11/00, IND, En, Es)

• Credit Guarantee Systems: International Experiences and Lessons for Latin America and the Caribbean

  By Jacob Levitsky, Juan José Llisterri, SDS/MSM (01/95, MSM, En, Es)

• Dealing with Coordination Issues in Rural Development Projects: Game Theory Insights

  By Mark D. Wenner (06/07, RUR-07-06, En)

• Declaración de intenciones de San Fernando de Henares para la creación de la Red Iberoamericana de Desarrollo Rural

  (10/05, En, Es)

• Deforestation and Property Rights in Latin America

  By Carlos F. Jaramillo, Thomas Kelly (05/99, ENV, En, Es)

• Desarrollo de proyectos viales y aportes del estado en terrenos

  By Beatriz Marulanda, Miguel Montes (04/04, En, Es)

• Designing Decisions Rules for Transnational Infrastructure Projects

  By Salvador Barberà (05/03, En)

• Developing with Identity: Mobilizing the Potential of Indigenous Peoples' Natural Resources and Cultural Heritage

  By Anne Deruyttere (02/07, En, Es)

• Economic Shocks, Inequality and Poverty: the Need for Safety Nets

  By Nora Lustig (06/98, En)

• Education, Family Background and Racial Earnings Inequality in Brazil

  By Omar Arias, Omar Arias, Luis Tejerina, Gustavo Yamada (10/03, POV, En, Es)

• Effect of the Structure of Rural Public Expenditures on Agricultural Growth and Rural Poverty in Latin America

  By Ramón López (12/04, RUR-04-01, En, Es)

• El Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo y los pueblos indígenas

  By Anne Deruyttere (01/97, IND, En, Es)

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

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

• Electronic Commerce and Development Implications for IDB Actions

  By Antonio Ca' Zorzi (11/00, En, Es)

• Environmental Management of Small and Medium Sized Cities in Latin America and the Caribbean

  By Jaap de Vries, Harry Mengers, Paul Procee (01/01, ENV, En)

• Environmental Management: Towards a Conceptual Framework for Environmental Governance

  By Willem Cornelissen, Jan Joost Kessler, Bart Romijn, Pieter van Ginniken (06/01, ENV, En)

• Estudio de caso de EXPIDER en Bolivia

  By José María Sumpsi (01/06, Es)

• Estudio de caso de EXPIDER en Ecuador

  By José María Sumpsi (01/06, Es)

• Estudio de caso de EXPIDER en Honduras

  By José María Sumpsi (01/06, Es)

• Estudio de caso de las pequeñas y medianas empresas (PYMES) de los servicios de agua potable y saneamiento en Colombia

  By José Fernando Cárdenas (10/03, IFM, En, Es)

• Estudio de políticas de abatimiento de gas de efecto invernadero y desarrollo económico: Sinergias y desafíos en el sector de los rellenos sanitarios

  By Sebastián Valdés De F. (10/04, ENV, Es)

• Evaluación de resultados del Proyecto EXPIDER

  By José María Sumpsi (04/06, En, Es)

• Evaluating Social Security Reform in Argentina during the 1990s

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

• Experiencias Piloto de Desarrollo Local Rural en América Latina: Lecciones del Proyecto EXPIDER en Bolivia, Ecuador y Honduras

  By José María Sumpsi (09/06, RUR-06-02, Es)

• Facing the Challenges of Informal Settlements in Urban Centers: The Re-urbanization of Manaus, Brazil

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

• Financing Health Policies in Brazil

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

• Forest Vocation Lands and Forest Policy: When Simpler is Better

  By José Rente Nascimento (12/05, RUR-05-03, En)

• Free and Nondiscriminatory Access to Airports: A Proposal for Latin America

  By Antonio Bosch, José García-Montalvo (05/03, En, Es)

• From Intervention to Empowerment: A New Approach to Assisting SMEs in Latin America

  By SDS/MSM (10/98, En, Es)

• Globalization, Transmissible Diseases and Inequity

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

• Good Practices in Poverty Targeting in IDB Projects in 1997

  By Ruthanne Deutsch (12/98, POV, En)

• Guidelines for Monitoring and Evaluating Projects of the Social Entrepreneurship Program

  By Glenn Westley (12/02, En, Es)

• Guidelines for Socio-cultural Analysis

  By Marie-Madeleine Mailleux Sant'ana, Jonathan Renshaw, Volker von Bremen (10/01, IND, En, Es)

• Health Reforms and Interest Groups in Latin America

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

• Higher Education and Science and Technology in Latin America and the Caribbean: Responding to Expansion and Diversification

  (03/02, En, Es)

• Household Water Demand Estimation

  By Miguel Bacharach, William J. Vaughan (03/95, ENP-106, En)

• Impacto del Nuevo Acuerdo de Capitales de Basilea sobre el Sistema de Calificacion de Riesgo

  By Pietro Masci, Carlos Rivas (09/06, 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)

• Indicadores de bienestar y pobreza indígena

  By Jonathan Renshaw, Natalia Wray (01/04, SDS/IND, En, Es)

• Indigenous Peoples and Poverty Reduction: A Case Study of Guatemala

  By Roger Plant (12/98, IND, En, Es)

• Indigenous Peoples Health: Issues for Discussion and Debate

  By Carlos César Perafán, William Savedoff (07/02, IND, En, Es)

• Institutional Capacity to Integrate Economic Development and Climate Change Considerations: An Assessment of DNAs in Latin America and the Caribbean

  By Christiana Figueres (10/04, ENV, En, Es)

• Integrated Water Resources Management: Institutional and Policy Reform

  (10/99, ENV, En)

• Integrating Freshwater Ecosystem Function and Services with Water Development Projects

  (01/00, ENV, En, Es)

• Inversión en la calidad de la educación pública en Perú y su efecto sobre la fuerza de trabajo y la pobreza

  (03/97, EDU, Es)

• Is Education by Television Just an Old Technology?

  By Claudio de Moura Castro (01/00, EDU, En)

• Is the Calorie Income Elasticity Sensitive to Prices Changes? Evidence from Indonesia

  By Emmanuel Skoufias (10/01, En, Es)

• Issues in Estimating Benefits with Non-Market Methods

  By Kenneth E. McConnell (08/95, En)

• La colaboración público-privada en el apoyo a la pequeña empresa: siete estudios de casos de América Latina

  By Pablo Angelelli, Carlos Guaipatín, Claudia Suaznabar (01/04, MSM, Es)

• La igualdad de género y la modernización de los Parlamentos Latinoamericanos

  By Rodrigo Jiménez Sandoval, Alda Facio Montejo (03/07, En, Es)

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

  By Line Bareiro, Lilian Soto, Clyde Soto (04/07, Es)

• La participación del sector privado en los servicios de agua y saneamiento en Cartagena de Indias

  By Paulina Beato, Javier Díaz (04/03, En, Es)

• La participación del sector privado en los servicios de agua y saneamiento en Guayaquil, Ecuador

  By Javier Díaz (06/03, IFM, Es)

• La participación del sector privado en los servicios de agua y saneamiento en la provincia de Salta en Argentina

  By Gustavo Saltiel (04/03, En, Es)

• La participación del sector privado en los servicios de agua y saneamiento en San Pedro Sula, Honduras

  By Javier Díaz (04/03, IFM, En, Es)

• La percepción de los inversores de los riesgos regulatorios e institucionales en América Latina

  By Analistas Financieros Internacionales (01/04, En, Es)

• La segunda generación de bolsas de energía: Lecciones para América Latina

  By Jaime Millán (12/99, ENV, Es)

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

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

• Latin American Crisis and Social Costs: What Lessons for Asia?

  By Nora Lustig, Michael Walton (03/98, En)

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

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

• Lineamientos para el apoyo a la microempresa en Ecuador

  (12/01, En, Es)

• Los subsidios cruzados en los servicios de agua potable y saneamiento

  By Guillermo Yepes (10/03, En, Es)

• Making Technology Work for Education in Latin America and the Caribbean: Notes on Issues, Policies and Innovations

  By Norma García, Juan Carlos Navarro, Laurence Wolff (12/01, En, Es)

• Matemática interactiva para educación básica: La experiencia venezolana con IRI

  By Nora Ghetea Jaegerman, Víctor Vásquez R. (11/99, EDU, Es)

• Microfinance Issues and Challenges in the Anglophone Caribbean

  By Geoffrey Chalmers, Mark D. Wenner (03/01, MSM, En, Es)

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

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

• Microfinance: An Emerging Market within the Emerging Markets

  By Marguerite Berger (07/01, MSM, En, Es)

• Natural Disaster Management and the Road Network in Ecuador: Policy Issues and Recommendations

  By Juan Benavides, David Hale, Scott Solberg (04/03, En, Es)

• Natural Disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Overview of Risk

  By Céline Charvériat (10/00, En)

• New Options for Higher Education in Latin America: Lessons from the Community College Experience

  By EDU (10/00, EDU, En, Es)

• Nicaragua: Opciones de política para la reforma del sector eléctrico

  By Manuel Dussan (01/04, En, Es)

• Opportunities for GHG Mitigation in Latin America: Carbon Finance and the Clean Development Mechanism

  By Michael Pollan (10/05, En, Es)

• Options for Investment in the Rural Economies of Latin America and the Caribbean

  By Ruben Echeverría (03/00, RUR, En, Es)

• Orientaciones para la evaluación de proyectos de integración productiva

  By Carlos Guaipatín (02/04, MSM, En)

• Os Community Colleges: Uma solução viável para o Brasil?

  By Claudio de Moura Castro (12/99, EDU, En, Es)

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

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

• Policy Issues for the Water and Sanitation Sectors

  By Vivien Foster (03/96, IFM96-101, En)

• Policy Studies on Greenhouse Gas Mitigation and Economic Development: Synergies and Challenges

  By Richard D. Morgenstern (10/04, En)

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

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

• Poverty Among the Indigenous Peoples of Nicaragua

  By Mark Jamieson (09/99, IND, En, Es)

• Private Infrastructure Investment at the Subnational Level: Challenges in Emerging Economies

  By Paulina Beato, Antonio Vives (10/03, IFM, En, Es)

• Private Sector Performance Contracting in the Water Sector

  (11/04, En)

• Profiles of Power Sector Reform in Selected Latin American and Caribbean Countries

  By ENV (09/99, ENV, En)

• Profiles of Power Sector Reform in Selected Latin American and Caribbean Countries

  By SDS/ENV (09/99, En)

• 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)

• Pueblos indígenas, recursos naturales y desarrollo con identidad: riesgos y oportunidades en tiempos de globalización

  By Anne Deruyttere (05/03, IND, En, Es)

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

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

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

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

• Reflexiones del Seminario en Soria (España) sobre Gestion Desarrollo Rural

  By José María Sumpsi (10/05, En, Es)

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

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

• Returns to education, sector premiums, and male wage inequality in Mexico

  By César Bouillon (10/00, En)

• Rights of Indigenous Groups over Natural Resources in Tropical Forests

  By Julio C. Tresierra (05/99, En)

• Rising Inequality in Mexico: Returns to Household Characteristics

  By César Bouillon, Arianna Legovini, Nora Lustig (10/98, POV, En)

• Rural Development from a Territorial Perspective: Case Studies in Asia and Latin America

  By Octavio Damiani (04/07, RUR-07-01, En)

• Rural Finance in Latin America and the Caribbean: Challenges and Opportunities

  By Francisco Proenza, Mark D. Wenner (12/00, MIC, En)

• Rural Finance in Latin America and the Caribbean: Challenges and Opportunities

  By Francisco Proenza, Mark D. Wenner (03/00, En)

• Safety Nets and Safety Ropes:Comparing the Dynamic Benefit Incidence of Two Indonesian "JPS" Programs

  By Lant Pritchett, Sudarno Sumarto, Asep Suryahadi (10/01, En, Es)

• Seminar on Local Economic Development

  (10/01, SDS/MSM, En, Es)

• Seminar: Promising Practices in Rural Finance

  (09/00, SDS/MSM, 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)

• Social Enterprise: A Typology of the Field Contextualized in Latin America

  By Sutia Kim Alter (09/03, En)

• Social Safety Nets in Response to Crisis: Lessons and Guidelines from Asia and Latin America

  By Asian Development Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, International Monetary Fund, World Bank (02/01, En, Es)

• Spatial Econometric Analysis and Project Evaluation: Modeling Land Use Change in the Darién

  By Virginia Harris, Gerald C. Nelson, Steven W. Stone (11/99, En)

• Street-children and the IDB: Lessons from Brazil

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

• Subsidios eléctricos en América Latina y el Caribe: Análisis comparativo y recomendaciones de política

  By Juan Benavides, Carla Pantanali (12/06, En, Es)

• Sustainability of Reform in Central America: Market Convergence and Regional Integration

  By Jaime Millán, Richard Tomiak (01/02, En, Es)

• Sustainable Forest Management in Latin America: Relevant Actors and Policies

  By Ronnie de Camino V. (04/99, ENV, En)

• Taller en Madrid de experiencias de desarrollo territorial rural en Iberoamérica

  By José María Sumpsi (10/05, En, Es)

• Targeting Methods for Social Programs (Poverty and Inequality Technical Notes #1)

  By Arianna Legovini (04/99, POV, En)

• The Future of the Latin American Natural Forests

  By Marc Dourojeanni (04/99, En)

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

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

• The Impact of Access to Credit on the Saving Behavior if Microentrepreneurs

  By Christian Rogg (09/00, MIC, En, Es)

• The Indigenous Challenge

  By Dianna Moyer, Carlos César Perafán (11/06, IND, En, Es)

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

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

• The Latin American Microfinance Industry: How Does It Measure Up?

  By Tor Jansson, Miguel Taborga (11/00, MSM, En, Es)

• The Opportunities for Sustainable Urban Transportation in Medium-Sized Cities in Latin American and the Caribbean

  By Deborah Bleviss (11/04, En, Es)

• The Role of Tradable Permits in Water Pollution Control

  By Eduard Interwies, Eleftheria Kampa, R. Andreas Kraemer (10/04, ENV, En)

• The Social Spatial Segregation in the Cities of Latin America

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

• The US Fiscal System as an Opportunity Equalizing Device

  By Marianne Page, John E. Roemer (08/98, POV, En)

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

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

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

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

• Urban Air Quality and Human Health in Latin America and the Caribbean

  By Luis A. Cifuentes, Alan J. Krupnick, Raúl O'Ryan, Michael Toman (10/05, En, Es)

• Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Framework

  By Mayra Buvinic, Andrew Morrison, Michael Shifter (02/99, SOC-110, En, Es)

• Vocational and Technical Training: A Strategy for the IDB

  By SDS (12/00, GN-2051-1, En, Es)

• 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)

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

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

• Why is Inequality Back on the Agenda?

  By Ravi Kanbur, Nora Lustig (04/99, En)

• Women, Politics and Democratic Prospects in Latin America

  By Mayra Buvinic, Vivian Roza (12/04, WID-108, 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)

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