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OCTOBER 2008
Press Freedom and
Economic Development
in Latin America
2008
www.cadal.org
By Hernán Alberro
= Chile leads again the Press Freedom and Economic Development ranking for Latin America in ... 0,286 0,297
= 20 Cuba 0,122 0,149
Ranking of Press Freedom and Economic Development
in Latin...
... health in Latin America and the
Caribbean: challenges and opportunities] Mexico,
Inter American Development Bank, Population Council, Instituto
Nacional de Salud Publica, 2000, (in Spainsh, in press) .
3. ... facing increasing
pressure from donors to achieve financial sustain-
ability, which, in turn, is forcing some to charge
clients escalating prices for care. Indeed, a nu...
... account worsened and
inflation continued to increase. In early 1989 the International Bank for
Reconstruction and Development (World Bank) suspended all of its financing in
Argentina.
In the 1989 ... contacto@communidadandina.org
Internet: http://www.comunidadandina.org/
Andean Development Corporation
Corporación Andina de Fomento (CAF)
The Andean Development Corporatio...
... “redlining” by banks—the practice of denying credit to in-
dividuals and businesses in certain neighborhoods without regard to their creditwor-
thiness. The CRA requires banks and savings and ... lenders and creating, packaging, repackaging, and selling tril-
lions of dollars in mortgage-related securities, including synthetic nancial products.
Like Icarus, they never feared...
... rehabilitation, and disaster prevention and preparedness are Multisector and Other;
banking and financial services, and business and other services are Financing and Business; and government and civil ... multiple private investors and investment funds
due to its closeness to international capital markets. Other SRDBs are introducing innovations
in microfinance and S...
... expanded equation (1) in levels:
(7)
which includes the program indicator D, an inter-
action term between D and a variable YRS measur-
ing years-since-rst-participated in the program,
and ... manufacturing rms in
2002, according to the CIPI (2002), and its
use kept growing. Between 2002 and 2006,
the program tripled the number of audits
initiated—from 293 in 2002 to 93...
... University
Regional Learning Alliance – workforce development and
training/collaborations with business and industry; meeting the
training and education needs of businesses within 60 mile radius
in Northern ... Programs
and Initiatives
Business accelerators and/ or entrepreneurial initiatives
Linking teaching and research to business opportunities
Collaboration with local bus...
... measures in Latin America is reported in
Table 1.
Despite their increasing use, the effectiveness of macroprudential policies in leaning
against credit growth and in protecting financial stability ... deposit and lending interest rates. These findings, more generally
support the use of RRs as a policy instrument in an inflation-targeting regime in terms of
their effec...
... rapidly increasing total cost of healthcare in China and the increase
in private spending on healthcare.
In a study of the economic consequences of aging in China, Cai and Wang
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find that ... some developing
countries in Latin America. Populations are aging earlier in most such countries than in China.
China is already studying and learning from the policy succ...