Latin American countries have not had much experience with competition policies in the past. Combined with restrictive trade policies, the absence of competition policies has often led to monopolized domestic markets. The strong trade liberalizations in Latin America during the 1980s and the...

Economic development during the last thirty years provides a continuing experiment from which important lessons can be learned. These lessons are both positive and negative. One can learn from those that have succeeded as well as those that have failed. Among those that have succeeded, the East...

As part of the preparation of the El Salvador Basic Education Modernization Project, a Social Assessment (SA) was undertaken between November 1994 and February 1995 to identify the stakeholders and the major benefits and risks of the proposed education reform, and to formulate an action plan...

Agriculture is the human activity that affects the largest proportion of the earth's surface, including its freshwater resources. As the world's population continues to grow, finding ways of increasing agricultural production without destroying the many benefits provided by biodiversity will be...