This report delivers systematized information intended to direct the work of the Regional Dialogue, with an emphasis on the efforts that Southern Cone countries. The report includes recommendations on how the countries could improve their environmental institutions and management practices,...

This report provides systematized information to guide Regional Dialogue efforts. It emphasizes the efforts Southern Cone countries should undertake to consolidate environmental administration and sustainable development. The report is based on three central themes: 1) identification and...

El presente informe entrega información sistematizada destinada a orientar el trabajo del Diálogo Regional, con énfasis en los esfuerzos que los países del Cono Sur deberían desplegar en la consolidación de la gestión ambiental y en la sustentabilidad del desarrollo. El informe se basa en...

This report delivers systematized information intended to direct the work of the Regional Dialogue, with an emphasis on the efforts that Southern Cone countries. The report includes recommendations on how the countries could improve their environmental institutions and management practices,...

This document was commissioned by the Environment Network of the Regional Policy Dialogue for the I Hemispheric Meeting, celebrated on April 4th and 5th, 2002. Objectives of the Environmental Management Executive Profiles. To identify and characterize the main environmental problems of the...

This report provides systematized information to guide Regional Dialogue efforts. It emphasizes the efforts Southern Cone countries should undertake to consolidate environmental administration and sustainable development. The report is based on three central themes: 1) identification and...

This report delivers systematized information intended to direct the work of the Regional Dialogue, with an emphasis on the efforts that Southern Cone countries. The report includes recommendations on how the countries could improve their environmental institutions and management practices,...

This paper investigates the effects of political (mis)alignment on public service delivery when mandates are shared between state and local governments. We analyze sewage treatment policies in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Relying on difference-in-differences estimations, we establish a...

This paper provides the first experimental evaluation of the participatory budgeting model showing that it increased public participation in the process of public decision making, increased local tax revenues collection, channeled larger fractions of public budgets to services stated as top...

This working paper advances research on inequality with unique, new data on income distribution in 61 countries, including 20 Latin American countries, to explore the effects of political parties on redistribution. First, consistent with a central, but still contested, assumption of the...