Documents & Reports
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China's and India's challenge to Latin America : opportunity or threat? (English)
China's and India's fast economic growth since 1990 is paralleled only by their growing presence in policy discussions throughout the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region. The success of these...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 47239 Document Date: October 31, 2008 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Lederman,Daniel,Olarreaga,Marcelo,Perry, Guillermo E.
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Informality : exit and exclusion : Informalidad : escape y exclusion (Spanish)
Informality: exit and exclusion analyzes informality in Latin America, exploring root causes and reasons for and implications of its growth. The authors use two distinct but complementary lenses: informality...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 40008 Document Date: January 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Arias Diaz,Omar S.,Bosch Mossi,Mariano,Fajnzylber,Pablo,Maloney,William F.,Mason,Andrew D.,Perry, Guillermo E.,Saavedra,Jaime
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Informality : exit and exclusion (English)
Informality: exit and exclusion analyzes informality in Latin America, exploring root causes and reasons for and implications of its growth. The authors use two distinct but complementary lenses: informality...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 40008 Document Date: January 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Arias Diaz,Omar S.,Bosch Mossi,Mariano,Fajnzylber,Pablo,Maloney,William F.,Mason,Andrew D.,Perry, Guillermo E.,Saavedra,Jaime
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Poverty reduction and growth : virtuous and vicious circles : Reduccion de la pobreza y crecimiento : circulos virtuosos y circulos viciosos (Spanish)
Poverty Reduction and Growth is about the existence of these vicious circles in Latin America and the Caribbean about the ways and means to convert them into virtuous circles in which poverty reduction...
Document Type: Poverty Assessment Report No.: 35348 Document Date: January 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Arias Diaz,Omar S.,Lopez,J. Humberto,Maloney,William F.,Perry, Guillermo E.,Serven,Luis
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Poverty reduction and growth : virtuous and vicious circles (English)
Poverty Reduction and Growth is about the existence of these vicious circles in Latin America and the Caribbean about the ways and means to convert them into virtuous circles in which poverty reduction...
Document Type: Poverty Assessment Report No.: 35348 Document Date: January 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Arias Diaz,Omar S.,Lopez,J. Humberto,Maloney,William F.,Perry, Guillermo E.,Serven,Luis
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Beyond the city : the rural contribution to development (English)
Beyond the City evaluates the contribution of rural development and policies to growth, poverty alleviation, and environmental degradation in the rest of the economy, as well as in the rural space. This...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 32333 Document Date: January 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Foster,William,Lederman,Daniel,Perry, Guillermo E.,Valdes, Alberto,De Ferranti,David
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Inequality in Latin America : breaking with history? (English)
With the exception of Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean has been one of the regions of the world with the greatest inequality. This report explores why the region suffers from such persistent...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 28989 Document Date: April 1, 2004 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: De Ferranti,David,Ferreira,Francisco H. G.,Perry, Guillermo E.,Walton,Michael
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Inequality in Latin America : breaking with history? : Desigualdad en America Latina : rompiendo con la historia? (Spanish)
With the exception of Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean has been one of the regions of the world with the greatest inequality. This report explores why the region suffers from such persistent...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 28989 Document Date: January 1, 2004 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: De Ferranti,David,Ferreira,Francisco H. G.,Perry, Guillermo E.,Walton,Michael
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Closing the gap in education and technology (English)
This report focuses not only on the gaps facing Latin America in both education and technology, but especially on the interactions between the two. The central premise of the report is that skills and...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 25834 Document Date: March 31, 2003 Author: De Ferranti, David,Perry, Guillermo E.,Gill, Ind
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Closing the gap in education and technology : Cerrar la brecha en educacion y technologia (Spanish)
This report focuses not only on the gaps facing Latin America in both education and technology, but especially on the interactions between the two. The central premise of the report is that skills and...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 25834 Document Date: January 1, 2003 Author: De Ferranti, David,Perry, Guillermo E.,Gill, Ind
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From natural resources to the knowledge economy : trade and job quality : De los recursos naturales a la economia del conocimiento : comercio y calidad del empleo (Spanish)
The study questions whether, after a decade of remarkable progress in trade reform, Latin America and the Caribbean really integrates into the global market, offering a promising rapid growth, and good...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 23440 Document Date: January 1, 2002 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: De Ferranti,David,Perry, Guillermo E.,Lederman,Daniel,Maloney, William E.
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From natural resources to the knowledge economy : trade and job quality (English)
The study questions whether, after a decade of remarkable progress in trade reform, Latin America and the Caribbean really integrates into the global market, offering a promising rapid growth, and good...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 23440 Document Date: January 1, 2002 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: De Ferranti,David,Perry, Guillermo E.,Lederman,Daniel,Maloney, William E.
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Securing our future in a global economy (English)
In the 1990s Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) began to resurface from the lost decade of the 1980s after a sustained reform effort by the countries to enhance the role of market forces and increase...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 20655 Document Date: June 30, 2000 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: De Ferranti,David,Perry, Guillermo E.,Gill,Indermit S.,Serven,Luis,Ferreira,Francisco H. G.,Ilahi,Nadeem,Maloney,William F.,Rama,Martin G.
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Annual World Bank Conference on Development in Latin America and the Caribbean 1999 : decentralization and accountability of the public sector (English)
This report is the proceedings of the fifth Annual World Bank Conference on Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, held on June 20-22, 1999, in Valdivia, Chile. The conference is now generally...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 20732 Document Date: May 31, 2000 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Burki, Shahid Javed,Perry, Guillermo E.,Eid, Flo
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Securing our future in a global economy : Asegurando el futuro en una economia globalizada (Spanish)
In the 1990s Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) began to resurface from the lost decade of the 1980s after a sustained reform effort by the countries to enhance the role of market forces and increase...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 20655 Document Date: January 1, 2000 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: De Ferranti,David,Perry, Guillermo E.,Gill,Indermit S.,Serven,Luis,Ferreira,Francisco H. G.,Ilahi,Nadeem,Maloney,William F.,Rama,Martin G.
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The World Bank Research Observer 14 (2) (English)
Road funds, user charges, and taxes, by Ken Gwilliam and Zmarak Shalizi. Between the state and the market: can informal insurance patch the safety net? By Jonathan Morduch. Using household surveys to build...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 20350 Document Date: August 31, 1999 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Binswanger,Hans P.,Blank,Lorraine R.,Deininger,Klaus W.,Dinar,Ariel,Grosh,Margaret Ellen,Gwilliam,Kenneth M.,Irwin, Timothy,Klein,Maximilian Michael Johann,Mendelsohn,Robert,Morduch,Jonathan J.,Perry, Guillermo E.,Reilly, John,Shalizi,Zmarak,Thobani,Mateen
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Beyond the Washington Consensus : institutions matter (English)
This report examines the precise nature of the required institutional reforms needed to achieve higher sustained rates of growth and to make a dent in poverty reduction and provides a framework for their...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 18428 Document Date: September 30, 1998 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Burki,Shahid Javed,Perry, Guillermo E.
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Annual World Bank conference on development in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1997 : trade - towards open regionalism (English)
This third Annual Bank Conference on Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) focuses on trade liberalization policy, specifically "open regionalism," a term coined to describe the fact that...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 18444 Document Date: September 30, 1998 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Burki,Shahid Javed,Perry, Guillermo E.,Calvo,Sara Guerschanik
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The long march : a reform agenda for Latin America and the Caribbean in the next decade : La larga marcha : una agenda de reformas para la proxima decada en America Latina y el Caribe (Spanish)
The Mexican peso crisis in 1994 brought about gloom, anxiety, and uncertainty in the LAC (Latin America and Caribbean) region. There is a general awareness among policymakers that additional reforms need...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 17079 Document Date: July 1, 1998 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Burki, Shahid Javed,Perry, Guillermo E.
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Beyond the Washington Consensus : institutions matter : Mas alla del consenso de Washington : la hora de la reforma institucional (Spanish)
This report examines the precise nature of the required institutional reforms needed to achieve higher sustained rates of growth and to make a dent in poverty reduction and provides a framework for their...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 18428 Document Date: January 1, 1998 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Burki,Shahid Javed,Perry, Guillermo E.