Download or read book Annual World Bank Conference on Development in Latin America and the Caribbean 1999 written by Shahid Javed Burki and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual World Bank Conference on Development in Latin America and the Caribbean 1996 written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report of the proceedings of the Second Annual Bank Conference on Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (ABCD-LAC) focuses on prospects for reducing poverty and improving inequality. Latin America is one of two regions in which the incidence of poverty has increased over the last ten years. Not only has the number of poor increased, but also has the proportion of the poor. This region has the most pronounced income disparity of all developing regions in the world, and poverty is becoming a predominantly urban phenomenon. The crises in Mexico and Argentina have vividly demonstrated that economic shocks can have severe consequences on both income distribution and the incidence of poverty. Among the special groups identified as needing assistance are indigenous people, women--particularly female heads of households, and children. Conference outcomes include the need to create societies where equal opportunities are accessible to all; the importance of creating conditions for human capital development; the view that public policy must integrate women into any poverty-alleviating strategy; the major role for the press and the media in influencing communities and their behavior toward less-privileged groups; the expansion of access to maternal and child services and to credit to support entrepreneurship; and the need to build the capacity of indigenous communities while preserving their identity.
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Download or read book Annual World Bank Conference on Development in Latin America and the Caribbean written by Shahid Javed Burki and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth ABCD-LAC focuses on decentralisation and the need to bring governments closer to the people in a rapidly changing global economic environment.
Download or read book Annual World Bank Conference on Development in Latin America and the Caribbean 1996 written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report of the proceedings of the Second Annual Bank Conference on Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (ABCD-LAC) focuses on prospects for reducing poverty and improving inequality. Latin America is one of two regions in which the incidence of poverty has increased over the last ten years. Not only has the number of poor increased, but also has the proportion of the poor. This region has the most pronounced income disparity of all developing regions in the world, and poverty is becoming a predominantly urban phenomenon. The crises in Mexico and Argentina have vividly demonstrated that economic shocks can have severe consequences on both income distribution and the incidence of poverty. Among the special groups identified as needing assistance are indigenous people, women--particularly female heads of households, and children. Conference outcomes include the need to create societies where equal opportunities are accessible to all; the importance of creating conditions for human capital development; the view that public policy must integrate women into any poverty-alleviating strategy; the major role for the press and the media in influencing communities and their behavior toward less-privileged groups; the expansion of access to maternal and child services and to credit to support entrepreneurship; and the need to build the capacity of indigenous communities while preserving their identity.
Download or read book Annual World Bank Conference on Development in Latin America and the Caribbean written by Shahid Javed Burki and published by Washington, D.C. : World Bank. This book was released on 1997 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book First Annual Bank Conference on Development in Latin America and the Caribbean written by Shahid Jved Burki and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual World Bank Conference on Development in Latin America and the Caribbean 1998 written by Shahid Javed Burki and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects the papers which were presented at the Annual World Bank Conference on Development in Latin Aerica and the Caribbean that the topics were about financial system and economic development.
Download or read book Annual World Bank Conference on Development in Latin America and the Caribbean 1997 written by Shahid Javed Burki and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual World Bank Conference on Development in Latin America 1997 written by Shahid Javed Burki and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 1) regionalism has gone hand in hand with unilateral trade opening:statistics on tariff and non-tariff measures affecting imports show that protectionist policies have been dismantled in the major LAC countries during the last decade; 2) regionalism has gone hand in hand with a substantial liberalization of investment regimes:provisions, including national treatment provisions, in regional trading arrangements show that several LAC countries treat foreign direct investment on exactly the same footing as domestic investment; and 3) most LAC countries are willing to participate in building a hemispheric free-trade zone and have been active, pro-liberalization members of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Speeches emphasized the political returns from trade integration:reciprocal lock-in, alliances created among pro-reform factions, pro-integration movements across countries, civil society integration, more-likely peaceful settlements to disputes, and general advancement of harmony in the Western Hemisphere through atmospherics, through positive incentive structures, and through cross-country coalitions. Because these positive linkages are largely implicit and not unduly burdensome, they make regional integration consistent with convergence toward global trade integration.
Download or read book Reducing Poverty Protecting Livelihoods and Building Assets in a Changing Climate written by Dorte Verner and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2010-06-25 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change is the defining development challenge of our time. More than a global environmental issue, climate change and variability threaten to reverse recent progress in poverty reduction and economic growth. Both now and over the long run, climate change and variability threatens human and social development by restricting the fulfillment of human potential and by disempowering people and communities in reducing their livelihoods options. Communities across Latin America and the Caribbean are already experiencing adverse consequences from climate change and variability. Precipitation has increased in the southeastern part of South America, and now often comes in the form of sudden deluges, leading to flooding and soil erosion that endanger people s lives and livelihoods. Southwestern parts of South America and western Central America are seeing a decrease in precipitation and an increase in droughts. Increasing heat and drought in Northeast Brazil threaten the livelihoods of already-marginal smallholders, and may turn parts of the eastern Amazon rainforest into savannah. The Andean inter-tropical glaciers are shrinking and expected to disappear altogether within the next 20-40 years, with significant consequences for water availability. These environmental changes will impact local livelihoods in unprecedented ways. Poverty, inequality, water access, health, and migration are and will be measurably affected by climate change. Using an innovative research methodology, this study finds quantitative evidence of large variations in impacts across regions. Many already poor regions are becoming poorer; traditional livelihoods are being challenged in unprecedented ways; water scarcity is increasing, particularly in poor arid areas; human health is deteriorating; and climate-induced migration is already taking place and may increase. Successfully reducing social vulnerability to climate change and variability requires action and commitment at multiple levels. This volume offers key operational recommendations at the government, community, and household levels with particular emphasis placed on enhancing good governance and technical capacity in the public sector, building social capital in local communities, and protecting the asset base of poor households.
Download or read book Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2008 Regional written by Justin Yifu Lin and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This annual conference is a global gathering of the world's leading scholars and practitioners. Among the attendees are participants from developing countries, think tanks, NGOs, and international institutions. These papers concern issues such as: Higher Education and International Migration in Asia: Brain Circulation; Interfaces in Higher Education: Two Sector in Sync?; Financing Higher Education: Lessons from developed economies, options for developing economies; Well-springs of Modern Economic Growth: Higher Education, Innovation and Local Economic Development; Higher Education, Innovation.
Download or read book Trade Towards Open Regionalism written by World Bank and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FTAA, education, environment, Andean pact, unilateral liberalization, NAFTA, agriculture, finance, business, macroeconomic, protectionism.
Download or read book At a Crossroads written by María Marta Ferreyra and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Higher education in Latin America and the Caribbean has expanded dramatically in the past 15 years, as the average gross enrollment rate has more than doubled, and many new institutions and programs have been opened. Although higher education access has become more equitable, and higher education supply has become more varied, many of the 'new' students in the system are, on average, less academically ready than are their more advantaged counterparts. Furthermore, only half of higher education students, on average, complete their degree, and labor market returns to higher education vary greatly across institutions and programs. Thus, higher education is at a crossroads today. Given the region's urgency to raise productivity in a low-growth, fiscally constrained environment, going past this crossroads requires the formation of skilled human capital fast and efficiently. 'At a Crossroads: Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean' contributes to the discussion by studying quality, variety, and equity of higher education in Latin America and the Caribbean. The book presents comprehensive evidence on the recent higher education expansion and evolution of higher education labor market returns. Using novel data and state-of-the-art methods, it studies demand and supply drivers of the recent expansion. It investigates the behavior of institutions and students and explores the unintended consequences of large-scale higher education policies. Framing the analysis are the singular characteristics of the higher education market and the market segmentation induced by the variety of students and institutions in the system. At this crossroads, a role emerges for incentives, information, accountability, and choice."
