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Resettlement Processes and their Socioeconomic Impact: Porce II Hydroelectric Project, Colombia Title: Procesos de reasentamiento y su impacto socioeconómico: Proyecto Hidroeléctri...

González, Verónica - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

This evaluation conducted a comprehensive analysis of the long-term socioeconomic impact on the resettled population in the context of the Porce II Hydroelectric Project in Antioquia, Colombia. The evaluation's results highlight the formalization of landholdings, as well as quality improvements...

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Competitiveness: The Business of Growth Title: Competitividad: el motor del crecimiento

Galindo, Arturo José; Kapsoli, Javier; Márquez, Gustavo; … - Inter-American Development Bank

Competing in the world economy does not automatically boost a nation's productivity and restructure its economy. Such progress requires mobilizing capital, employment, technology and knowledge. Opportunities beyond the business realm must be fully exploited to the benfit of society as a whole....

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Market or State?: Three Decades of Reform in the Latin American Electric Power Industry Title: Entre el mercado y el Estado: Tres décadas de reformas en el sector eléctrico de Amér...

Millán, Jaime - Inter-American Development Bank

The history of the electric power industry in Latin America has been a continuous search for a formula that would yield a reliable and efficient service, accessible to all. By recognizing the difficulties encountered in the last three decades in implementing all types of models, Market or State?...

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Provision of Public Services and Welfare of the Poor: Learning from an Incomplete Electricity Privatization Process in Rural Peru

Alcázar, Lorena; Nakasone, Eduardo; Torero, Máximo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2007

public versus private provision. The results in this paper suggest that management of electricity firms by the private sector … leads to a significant improvement in the quality of the provision of electricity. These improvements in quality and supply … of electricity provision yield some efficiency gains in terms of the time allocation of the working labor force that can …

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Are Environmental Taxes Affected by Legislatures' Ideological Positions?

Miller, Sebastian; Vela, Mauricio A. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013

Environmental taxes have been discussed as one of the main mechanisms to deal with environmental problems. Nonetheless, instruments of this type have rarely been implemented, and the adoption of new or higher environmental taxes has faced resistance in some countries. The purpose of this work is...

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The Climate and Development Challenge for Latin America and the Caribbean: Options for Climate-Resilient, Low-Carbon Development Title: El desafío climático y de desarrollo en Amér...

Vergara, Walter; Rios, Ana R.; Paliza, Luis Miguel Galindo - Inter-American Development Bank

This book is a joint effort lead by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in collaboration with the Economic Commission of Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) focused on the climate and development challenge for LAC. It deals with a matter that is bound...

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Post-Privatization Renegotiation and Disputes in Chile

Basañes, C. Federico; Saavedra, Eduardo; Soto, Raimundo - Inter-American Development Bank - 1999

taken place in Chile since the late 1980s in the electricity sector. This sector was chosen because the privatization …. The paper also assesses how lessons learned in the reform of electricity were internalized in the design of the regulatory …

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Power Sector Reform in Latin America: Accomplishments, Failures and Challenges

Millán, Jaime - Inter-American Development Bank - 2006

In this technical paper, the author addresses pertinent issues that affect reform in the power sector and the status of current efforts. The objective of the paper is such: 1) It explains the difficulties in achieving a separation of the roles of the State in an environment in which it continues...

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Coal Fired Power Plants Guidelines: An Approach to Reconciling the Financing of Coal Fired Power Plants with Climate Change Objectives

Boulet, Emmanuel; Flores, Ernesto Monter; Ordóñez, Jorge - Inter-American Development Bank - 2009

-term scenario which describes the need to increase Coal Plants at a faster pace than overall electricity demand; (ii) a technical …

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Perspectives for Distributed Generation with Renewable Energy in Latin America and the Caribbean: Analysis of Case Studies for Jamaica, Barbados, Mexico, and Chile

Gischler, Christiaan; Janson, Nils - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

growth. The paper argues that the key rationale for promoting renewable DG in LAC is to reduce the cost of electricity for a … assessed in the light of the experience of Denmark, which has the world's highest share of DG (over 50 percent of electricity …

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