This document provides an overview of environmental management priorities, achievements, and challenges in the Caribbean sub-region. It also provides some recommendations for sub-regional initiatives that could be pursued through the Dialogue. Throughout this paper, environmental management...

This presentation discusses the matching grant program started in Argentina in August of 1996. The objective of the program is to help increase the international competitiveness of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) by facilitating access to, and reducing costs of export related services. This...

This paper analyzes MIF efforts to improve inadequate training institutions and emphasize the basic importance of updating management and worker skills in SMEs in Latin America

This study sought to compare and analyze salaries paid to senior managers in the public sector in some Latin American countries.

This documents was prepared for the Inter-American Development Bank Regional Policy Dialogue. It analyzes the Caribbean sub-region integrated by The Bahamas, Barbados, Dominican Republic, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago. This profile provides an overview of...

This working paper contains a review and analysis of environmental policy tools in Latin America. It contains a review of the instruments themselves and their properties are discussed in both static and dynamic contexts. The report brings together the institutional and more narrowly economic...

Este documento fue comisionado por la Red de Gestión Públlica y Transparencia del Diálogo Regional de Política para la III Reunión Hemisférica celebrada los días 14 y 15 de noviembre de 2002. Este trabalho visa analisar o sistema de serviço civil e a gestão de recursos humanos da...

Este trabalho investiga a efetividade de instrumentos tributários de incentivos à pesquisa, desenvolvimento e inovação utilizados no Brasil desde o início dos anos de 1990. Particularmente, são analisados dois instrumentos distintos. A Lei de Informática cuja primeira edição foi feita...

The presentation discuses incentives used to support innovation in the private sector in Brazil. It focuses on the incentives for supporting firms' innovative activities, which include a wide range of programs, such as: Sectoral Funds, Industrial, Technological; Foreign Trade Policy; and new...