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- San Marino
  
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  Population 0.03 mln
  
  Population growth 1%
  
  Life expectancy 82 years
  
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  GDP $1.7 bln
  
  - per capita $55,681
  
  - growth rate 4%
  
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  Cellphone users 57%
  
  Internet users 51%
  
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Housing Finance in Chile: Instruments, Actors, and Policies

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The Chilean system of housing finance is a mixture of public and private elements that has arguably been very successful. This paper provides an up- to-date review of the main instruments, actors, and government policies of the Chilean system of housing finance. It concludes that, while the system is indeed functioning well, the increasingly important role of BancoEstado warrants further analysis of the role of public banks in a modern, fully developed housing finance system.

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Moushumi Biswas on May 14, 2012

IDEAS Energy Innovation Contest 2012

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The 2012 IDEAS Energy Innovation Contest for the Caribbean has been launched to provide awards for projects and enterprises which promote energy efficiency and access to renewable energy in the Caribbean region. The contest, launched with a regional marketing campaign What’s your bright IDEA?, is intended to promote innovative solutions to energy problems that have local or regional benefits, provide jobs and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Award winners will receive up to US$200,000, as more...

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Leighton Waterman on April 18, 2012

Development Connections: Unveiling the Impact of New Information Technologies

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Can information and communication technology contribute to economic development?Policymakers and academics agree that computers, the Internet, mobile telephones and other information and communication technologies can be beneficial for economic and social development. But how strong is the impact? What conditions influence their effectiveness on development? The IDB took a bold step to apply strict statistical tools in a systematic way to evaluate how these technologies contributed to the more...

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John Daly on February 06, 2012

Research Opportunities" IDB Visiting Research Scholar Program

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The IDB is now accepting applications for the newly established Visiting Research Scholars Program.The program was created to address a growing demand to further strengthen policy- oriented and operationally-relevant knowledge in the public sector, governance, and capacity building, with a particular focus on Latin America and the Caribbean.The positions are open to applicants with a keen intellectual interest and demonstrated academic or professional excellence in one or more of the following more...

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John Daly on February 06, 2012

2012 Latin American and Caribbean Macroeconomic Report

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Abstract: This report details the divergent paths that the world economy may take and their potential effects on Latin America and the Caribbean. Scenarios are constructed employing a modeling exercise that captures the trade, financial and other linkages between the region and the rest of the world. While vulnerabilities remain and external shocks have been and remain critical, the region enjoys many strengths and has developed a growing arsenal of policy tools. What is the balance of more...

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John Daly on March 30, 2012

One Region, Two Speeds? Challenges of the New Economic Order for Latin America and the Caribbean

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Abstract: This report highlights how, in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, key structural characteristics of Latin American and Caribbean countries are defining two quite different regional clusters in terms of opportunities and challenges ahead. It shows that substantial changes are already taking place and will impact the regional clusters in different ways. Economic policy design in each country will have to accommodate these differences in order to ensure widespread and stable more...

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John Daly on February 06, 2012

Regional Corridors Development in Regional Cooperation

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Regional corridors are popular components of regional cooperation initiatives and have been in use for several years. This paper elaborates on a simple framework for regional corridors development in the context of regional cooperation, anchored on two dimensions of these corridors: the extent to which they are national or regional and the area of their utilization. The framework is subsequently applied to the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) regional cooperation program, yielding several more...

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Sonia Hossain on January 25, 2012

The Age of Productivity: Transforming Economies from the Bottom Up

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Abstract: Productivity, the main driver of economic prosperity, is languishing in Latin America and the Caribbean and is preventing the region from catching up with the developed world. Asking why the region is falling farther and farther behind, this book looks beyond the traditional macro explanations and digs all the way down to the industry and firm level to uncover the causes of this low productivity. It provides tools to ponder productivity growth beyond conventional aggregate analysis, more...

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John Daly on February 06, 2012

Asia’s Changing Role in World Trade

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Developing Asia’s rapid economic growth has been shifting the global economic and industrial centers of gravity away from the North Atlantic, raising the importance of Asia in world trade, and boosting South–South trade. How will trade patterns change over the next 2 decades in the course of economic growth and structural changes in developing Asia and the rest of the world? In particular, what can be expected of developing Asia’s intraregional trade and its trade with other developing country more...

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Sonia Hossain on November 27, 2011

Protecting Workers against Unemployment in Latin America and the Caribbean: Evidence from Argentina

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This paper takes advantage of several reforms that provide time and cross sectional variation to identify the effects of unemployment insurance and severance payments on the duration of unemployment and on the separation probability in Argentina. Administrative data permits analysis of the duration of unemployment of covered spells with detailed information about transfers and their duration, while household surveys permit the study of separation probability and transitions to informal jobs, more...

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Moushumi Biswas on January 01, 2012

Sub-national Revenue Mobilization in Peru

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This paper analyzes the problem of sub-national revenue mobilization in Peru and proposes several policy reforms to improve collection performance while maintaining a sound revenue structure. In particular, the paper analyzes the current revenues of regional and municipal governments and identifies the main priorities for reform. Among the most important problems are the acute inequalities and inefficiencies associated with revenue sharing from extractive industries. These revenues represent a more...

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Moushumi Biswas on April 02, 2012

When Should Developing Countries Announce Their Climate Policy?

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This paper provides a rationale for developing countries to announce future credible commitments to reduce GHG emissions even if these are not to materialize in the short run, and for domestic reasons only. A simple framework is presented in which it is shown that it may be costly for an economy to transition from high to low emissions; and that, if climate policy eventually will be enacted, then it may be better for countries to commit earlier and therefore eliminate the uncertainty for the more...

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Moushumi Biswas on January 02, 2012

China’s Emergence in the World Economy and Business Cycles in Latin America

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This paper investigates how changes in trade linkages between China, Latin America, and the rest of the world have altered the transmission of international business cycles to Latin America. Evidence based on a GVAR model for five large Latin American economies shows that the long-term impact of a China GDP shock on the typical Latin American economy has increased by three times since the mid-1990s, while the long-term impact of a US GDP shock has halved, while the transmission of shocks to more...

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Moushumi Biswas on September 15, 2011

The Age of Productivity: Transforming Economies from the Bottom Up (Executive Summary)

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Productivity, the main driver of economic prosperity, is languishing in Latin America and the Caribbean and is preventing the region from catching up with the developed world. Asking why the region is falling farther and farther behind, this book looks beyond the traditional macro explanations and digs all the way down to the industry and firm level to uncover the causes of this low productivity. It provides tools to ponder productivity growth beyond conventional aggregate analysis, focusing on more...

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Najmee Chowdhury on June 24, 2010

Outstanding works by Caribbean artists

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A selection of 39 works from the Collection of the Art Museum of the Americas, of the Organization of American States (OAS) is on display at the Gallery of the Inter-American Development Bank Cultural Center from August 27 to October 26, 2007. The selection centers on countries that represent the Spanish-, English-, French- and Dutch- speaking Caribbean. The Art Museum of the Americas of the OAS, inaugurated in 1976, houses the most comprehensive twentieth-century art collection from Latin more...

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Kasem Ali on February 01, 2009

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