Microfinance and Poverty
Author: Hege Gulli
Publisher: IDB
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9781886938458
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Myth, Reality, and Reform
Author: Cláudio de Moura Castro
Publisher: IDB
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9781886938601
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Myth, Reality, and Reform bridges these critiques by balancing the importance of the four key functions of higher education: academic leadership, professional development, technological training and development, and general higher education. The book suggests how to consolidate the strengths of higher education systems while fundamentally reforming their weaker features.
Revitalizing the Jamaican Economy
Author: Inter-American Development Bank
Publisher: IDB
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 193100384X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCommunity Organizations in Latin America
Author: Juan Carlos Navarro
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy reaching out to isolated groups without access to social services, community organisations have been helping alleviate poverty throughout Latin America. Adapting to the needs of communities, these organisations' have succeeded in mobilising the poor to find solutions to their own problems. Despite being smaller than corresponding state agencies, community organisations are generally more cost effective and efficient.
From Structures to Services
Author: Eduardo Cavallo
Publisher:
Published: 2020-08-07
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781597824002
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFinancial Risk Management
Author: José A. Soler Ramos
Publisher: IDB
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9781886938717
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Drawing on practical methods used by successful risk managers in emerging and developed markets throughout the world, the book provides specific guidance on establishing a modern risk management framework and developing efficient approaches to increase the profitability of risk management activities in emerging market settings."--BOOK JACKET.
Saving for Development
Author: Inter-American Development Bank
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-07-08
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1349949299
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy should people - and economies - save? This book on the savings problem in Latin America and the Caribbean suggests that, while saving to survive the bad times is important, saving to thrive in the good times is what really counts. People must save to invest in health and education, live productive and fulfilling lives, and make the most of their retirement years. Firms must save to grow their enterprises, employ more workers in better jobs, and produce quality goods. Governments must save to build the infrastructure required by a productive economy, provide quality services to their citizens, and assure their senior citizens a dignified, worry-free retirement. In short, countries must save not for the proverbial rainy day, but for a sunny day - a time when everyone can bask in the benefits of growth, prosperity, and well-being. This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO license.
Safe Money
Author: Beatriz Marulanda
Publisher: Inter-American Development Bank
Published: 2000-01-01
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1886938695
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPolicymakers in Latin America increasingly are turning to policies that have high economic rates of return and a favorable impact on income distribution. By providing financial services to small businesses and poor households -which normally lack such services- credit unions help secure growth with equity. The challenges faced by Latin America's credit unions today are likely to force them to further modernize and consolidate, fine tune their inherent advantages, improve mechanisms for prudential regulation, and find ways to increase their share of low and middle-income markets. Safe Money presents the new thinking on how credit unions can compete effectively in modern financial markets while still retaining their social mission.
A Mandate to Grow
Author: Eduardo A. Cavallo
Publisher: Inter-American Development Bank
Published: 2018-03-15
Total Pages: 121
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 2018 Macroeconomic Report, A Mandate to Grow, revisits the growth debate that has been raging in the region for the past half century. Viewing the debate from this long-term perspective allows for a focus on the structural factors that have prevented Latin America and the Caribbean from reaching the growth potential required to keep pace with faster growing regions and to fulfill the aspirations of its population.
Upgrading to Compete Global Value Chains, Clusters, and SMEs in Latin America
Author: Carlo Pietrobelli
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDoes enterprise participation in global markets ensure sustainable income growth? Policies have often been designed in the belief that this is true, but competitiveness and participation in international markets may take very different forms, and developing countries do not always benefit. This book presents a series of rich and original field studies from Latin America, conducted by the authors with the same consistent methodological approach, and represents a theory-generating exercise within clusters and economic development literature. The main question addressed is how Latin American small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) may participate in global markets in ways that provide for sustainable income growth, the “high road” to competitiveness. In contrast, the “low road” is often typically followed by small firms from developing countries, which often compete by squeezing wages and revenues rather than by increasing productivity, salaries, and profits.
