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4527: The Political Economy of Reform of the Administrative Systems of Public Sector Personnel in Latin America: An Analytical Framework

Blanca Heredia

4525: The Impact of Free Trade Agreements on the Pattern of Trade

Antoni Estevadeordal

4521: Research on Public Management Policy Change in the Latin American Region: Conceptual Framework, Methodological Guide, and Exemplars

Guillermo Cejudo, Francisco Gaetani, Juan Carlos Cortázar Velarde and Michael Barzelay

4517: Fiscal Indicators in Latin-American Countries

Ricardo Martner

4516: Comparative Analysis of Labor Relations in the Latin American Civil Service: Argentina, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Peru: Working Paper

José Alberto Bonifacio and Graciela Falivene

4515: Analytical Framework for Institutional Assessment of Civil Service Systems

Francisco Longo

4513: Aid for Trade: The Inter-American Development Bank's Experience in Latin America and the Caribbean

Inter American Development Bank, Antoni Estevadeordal, Paolo Giordano, Anneke Jessen, Jessica Luna and Kati Suominen

4511: Agricultural Negotiations in the World Trade Organization (WTO) and Their Links to the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA)

Carlos Pérez del Castillo

4509: Education for Citizenship and Democracy in a Globalized World: A Comparative Perspective

Inter American Development Bank, Viola Espínola, Audrey Osler, Hugh Starkey, Fernando Reimers, Eleonora Villegas Reimers, Cristián Cox, Rosario Jaramillo and Lorenzo Gómez-Morín

4500: Executive Profile for Regional Dialogue on the Environment: The Mesoamerican Sub-Region

Lawrence Pratt and Pascal O. Girot

4498: Firm Size and Credit in Argentina

Sebastián Auguste, Ricardo Bebczuk and Gabriel Sanchez

4497: Small Is Not Beautiful: Firm-Level Evidence of the Link between Credit, Firm Size and Competitiveness in Colombia

Arturo Galindo and Marcela Meléndez Arjona

4494: The Pharmacological Channel Revisited: Alcohol Sales Restrictions and Crime in Bogota

Joao De Mello, Daniel Mejía and Lucía Suárez

4492: Executive Profile of Environmental Management: Andean Region

Inter American Development Bank, Andean Center for Economics in the Environment and Centro Andino para la Economía en el Medio Ambiente

4489: Are Educational Reforms Working in Latin America?: A New Look at Understanding Whether Education is Getting Better

Martin Carnoy

4488: Sustainable Recycling of PET Bottles in Rio de Janeiro

Luiz Edmundo Costa Leite and José Henrique Penido Monteiro

4486: Review of Valuation Studies for Coastal and Ocean Resources in Latin America and the Caribbean

Lee G. Anderson and George Parsons

4484: Economic and Environmental Valuation Applied to Air Quality Management and Pollution Control Cases

Luis A. Cifuentes, Héctor Jorquera, Luis Rizzi and Javier Vergara

4482: Secondary Education: Critical Policy Issues

Benjamin Alvarez

4480: Secondary Education in the United States: What Can Others Learn from Our Mistakes?

Michael Bishop, Ferran Mane and John H. Bishop

4476: Public Management Policy Change in Brazil: 1995-1998

Francisco Gaetani

4475: Comparative Institutional Diagnosis of Civil Service Systems: Summary of 17 Country Evaluations

Francisco Longo

4473: Modernizing The State: Reflections on Next Generation Reforms to Strengthen the Capacity to Govern

Allen Schick

4471: Public Management Reform: Reliable Knowledge and International Experience

Christopher Pollitt

4469: Managing Public Sector Restructuring: Public Sector Downsizing and Redeployment Programs in Central and Eastern Europe

Wolfgang Drechsler

4415: Broadening the Agenda for Poverty Reduction: Opportunity, Empowerment, Security

Nicholas Stern and Nora Lustig

4412: Bolivia: Poverty Reduction Strategy

Government of Bolivia and Gobierno de Bolivia

4410: Colombia: Solidarity Social Network

Guillermo Casasbuenas

4408: Common Problems of Back Door Neighbors: Social Security and Informal Employment in Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela (Executive Summary)

Patricia Monteferrante and Samuel Freije-Rodriguez

4406: The Transition of the Social Policies in Brazil since the Old Paradigm towards the Unique Register

Carlos Alberto Ramos and Ana Lucia Lobato

4404: Targeting and Universalization as Instruments for the Reduction of Inequalities

Mirela de Carvalho and Ricardo Paes De Barros

4402: Sole Information Systems on Beneficiaries in Latin America

Ignacio Irarrázaval

4399: Innovations in Intergovernmental Financing for Promoting Equality in the Access to Social Services: Case Study of Health and Education in Brazil

Gabriel Ferrato dos Santos

4397: How do the Colombian Families Respond to the Changes in the Economic Conditions?

Luz Magdalena Salas Bahamón and Fabio Sanchez Torres

4395: Market Access under the Government Sector's Procurement Agreements

Laura Rojas

4392: Rules and Disciplines in Government Procurement Agreements

Norberto Iannelli

4390: Services, Anti-dumping and Other "New Issues" in the WTO Negotiations and Their Relevance for the FTAA

Alejandro Jara

4389: Asymmetric Capabilities in Trade Negotiations: Suggestions for Helping the Smaller Economies in the FTAA Process

Robert Cassidy and Ira Shapiro

4388: WTO Dispute Settlement Experience

John Jackson

4387: Understanding U.S. Agricultural Trade Negotiations: A Brief Review of Political and Economic Forces that will Drive U.S. Positions in the World Trade Organization and in the Free Trade of the Americas

Dale E. Hathaway

4386: Economic Integration and Real Convergence: Lessons from the Spanish Experience in the European Economic and Monetary Union

Carmela Martín

4385: Paper Prepared at the Request of the Inter-American Development Bank on the Trade Policymaking Process in the United States

Jon E. Huenemann

4384: The Consultative Process in the Formulation of Canadian Trade Policy: Political Necessity or Bureaucratic Rent-Seeking

William A. Dymond and Laura Ritchie Dawson

4383: The Question of the Q's: What Cue Should Quebec Send to Qatar?

Sylvia Ostry

4382: Regional Trade Negotiations in the Asia-Pacific Region: Assessment of Current Trends and Implicaitons for the FTAA and WTO

Robert Scollay

4381: MERCOSUR: In search of a New Agenda

Andrew Crawley

4380: MERCOSUR's Institutionalization Agenda: The Challenges of a Project in Crisis

Pedro da Motta Veiga

4379: The Latin America and Caribbean Countries and Trade Negotiations: An Exercise in the Development of Scenarios

Pedro da Motta Veiga

4378: U.S. Antidumping Policy as It Affects Negotiations RE ALCA/FTAA, NAFTA, and an Eventual WTO Round

Gary N. Horlick and Claire R. Palmer

4377: The Negotiation of a Free Trade Area of the Americas

Gary N. Horlick and Claire R. Palmer

4376: The Regional Dynamics of FTAA Negotiations

William A. Dymond

4375: Synopsis of the Study of the Insertion of Environmental Management in Sectorial Policies: The Tourism Case in the Caribbean

University of the West Indies and Universidad de las Indias Occidentales

4374: Synopsis of the Study of the Insertion of Environmental Management in Sectoral Policies: The Energy and Industry Case in Colombia

Colombia University of Los Andes and Universidad de los Andes

4373: Synopsis of the Executive Profile of Environmental Management: Southern Cone Subregion

Rafael Asenjo

4372: Synopsis of the Executive Profile of Environmental Management: Mesoamerican Subregion

Lawrence Pratt and Pascal O. Girot

4371: Synopsis of the Executive Profile of Environmental Management: Caribbean Subregion

Seth D. Tyler

4370: Structural Reforms in Latin America under Scrutiny

Ugo Panizza and Eduardo Lora

4369: Education, Family Background and Racial Earnings Inequality in Brazil

Omar Arias, Gustavo Yamada and Luis Tejerina

4368: AvaliaçaÞo da necessidade de um aumento geral do capital do capital ordinário e reposiçaÞo do Fundo de OperaçoÞes Especiais: progresso e próximos passos

Banco Interamericano de Desenvolvimento

4367: Should Latin America Fear China?

Eduardo Lora

4366: Women in "Japan Incorporated": Outsiders or Catalysts for Change?

Junichi Goto

4318: The Orientation of Social Spending in Latin America

Nohra Rey de Marulanda, Julio Guzmán and Jorge Ugaz

4316: Rural Poverty in Latin America

Keith Griffin

4314: Participant Interaction in a Latin American Online Leadership Training Course

Mary Dolan and Manuel Contreras

4311: National Health Accounts in Latin America and Caribbean: Concept, Results and Policy Uses

Alessandro Magnoli Bocchi

4309: Housing in Latin America

Alan Gilbert

4308: Growth, poverty and the distribution of labor earnings in Brazil, Chile and Mexico

Diana Alarcón González and Eduardo Zepeda

4306: Bridging the Gender Gap in Developing Regions

Alessandro Magnoli Bocchi

4302: Tax Expenditure Budgets: Concepts and Challenges for Implementation

Michel Jorratt, Luiz Arruda Villela and Andrea Lembruger Viol

4300: Democratic Governance, Citizenship, and Legal Identity: Linking Theoretical Discussion and Operational Reality

Bettina Boekle-Giuffrida and Mia Elisabeth Harbitz

4298: Interest Rates and Implications for Microfinance in Latin America and the Caribbean

Rashmi Kiran Ekka, Mark D. Wenner and Anita Campion

4297: Do We Know What Works?: A Systematic Review of Impact Evaluations of Social Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean. Latest version

Cesar Patricio Bouillon and Luis Tejerina

4296: Síntesis del estudio de inserción de la gestión ambiental en las políticas sectoriales: El caso de la industria y energía en México

Juan C. Belausteguigoitia, Gustavo Merino and Ricardo Samaniego

4295: Sinopsis del estudio de inserción de la gestión ambiental en las políticas sectoriales: Determinantes del desempeño ambiental en el sector industrial brasileño

Ronaldo Seroa da Motta

4294: Synopsis of the Study of the Insertion of Environmental Management in Sectorial Policies:The Energy and Industry case in Bolivia

Interdisciplinary Centre of Development Studies

4293: Regional Review of Water Charge Instruments for Water Management in Latin America and the Caribbean Case Studies of Brazil, México and France

Ronaldo Seroa da Motta

4292: Regional Review of Economic Instruments for Solid Waste Management in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Regional Situation and Case Studies about the Private Participation in Santiago and Recycling

Alvaro Fisher, Jorge Ducci and Mauricio Arredondo

4290: Análisis regional de los instrumentos económicos para el manejo integral de residuos sólidos en América Latina y el Caribe: Estudio de caso del manejo integral de residuos sólidos en Montebello, Antioquia

Héctor Collazos and Ramón Duque

4288: La modernización del estado y la reforma del servicio civil: Fortalecimiento democrático, consolidación del estado de derecho y eficacia de las políticas públicas

Koldo Echebarría

4286: The Reform of the Civil Service in Advanced Democracies: Merit with Flexibility

Francisco Longo

4285: The Civil Service in Latin America and the Caribbean: Situation and Future Challenges

Oscar Oszlak

4283: La reforma del servicio civil en las democracias avanzadas: Méritos con flexibilidad

Francisco Longo

4282: Goverment Modernization and Civil Service Reform: Democratic Strengthening, Consolidation of the Rule of Law, and Public Policy Effectiveness

Koldo Echebarría

4280: The Impact of Western Hemisphere Free Trade Agreements on the Foreign Sector and Debt Sustainability

José Luis Machinea

4270: Integración regional y productividad: Las experiencias de Brasil y México

Mauricio Moreira and José Ernesto López Córdova

4268: The Consultative Process with Civil Society in the Formulation of Sweden's Positions on Trade Policy within the EU

Anders Ahnlid

4267: Short Form for the Institutional Assessment of Civil Service Systems: Case of Barbados

Hedy Isaacs

4265: Can Mexico Set Up in the Aerospace and the Software and IT Global Value Chains as a High-Value-Added Player?

Flor Brown-Grossman and Lilia Domínguez-Villalobos

4264: International Product Fragmentation and the Insertion of Latin America and the Caribbean in Global Production Networks: Colombian Case Studies

Marcela Meléndez Arjona and Maria José Uribe

4256: Insertion of Costa Rica in Global Value Chains: A Case Study

Ricardo Monge-González and Sandro Zolezzi

4253: Insertion of Argentine Firms in Global Value Chains Not Oriented to the Mass Market: The Cases of High-End Footwear and The Basso Group

Andrea Gonzalez, Juan Hallak, Peter K. Schott and Tatiana Soria Genta

4250: Accessing the Global Value Chain in a Changing Institutional Environment: Comparing Aeronautics and Coffee

Fabrizio Cafaggi, Luana F. Joppert Swensson, Ronaldo Porto Macedo Junior, Tiago Andreotti e Silva, Clarissa Piterman Gross, Lucila Gabriel de Almeida and Thiago Alves Ribeiro

4246: Capital Controls or Real Exchange Rate Policy?: A Pecuniary Externality Perspective

Gianluca Benigno, Huigang Chen, Christopher Otrok, Alessandro Rebucci and Eric Young

4245: Credit Constraints, Sector Informality and Firm Investments: Evidence from a Panel of Uruguayan Firms

Nestor Gandelman and Alejandro Rasteletti

4243: Is Inflation Targeting Still on Target?: The Recent Experience of Latin America

Luis Cespedes, Roberto Chang and Andrés Velasco

4239: Weather and Welfare: Health and Agricultural Impacts of Climate Extremes, Evidence from Mexico

Roberto Guerrero Compeán

4238: Equilibrium Unemployment During Financial Crises

Andrés Fernández Martin and Juan Herreño

4237: Determinant Factors in the Perception of Crime-Related Insecurity in Mexico

Carlos Vilalta

4235: Does Participatory Budgeting have an Effect on the Quality of Public Services?: The Case of Peru's Water and Sanitation Sector

Miguel Jaramillo and Lorena Alcázar

4215: Macroprudential Regulations in Central America

Alejandro Izquierdo, Rudy Loo-Kung and Liliana Rojas-Suarez