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  1. Library Resource
    Informes e investigaciones
    Documentos de política y resúmenes
    Septiembre, 2008
    República Dominicana, México, Chile, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Argentina, Colombia, Brasil, América Latina y el Caribe

    This study on Latin America is based on a sample of eight countries, comprising the big four economies of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico; Colombia and Ecuador, two of the poorest South American tropical countries; the Dominican Republic, the largest Caribbean economy; and Nicaragua, the poorest country in Central America. Together, in 2000-04, these countries accounted for 78 percent of the region's population, 80 percent of the region's agricultural value added, and 84 percent of the total gross domestic product (GDP) of Latin America.

  2. Library Resource
    Informes e investigaciones
    Recursos y herramientas de capacitación
    Marzo, 2010
    Haití, América Latina y el Caribe

    Coffee is an ecologically and economically significant crop for Haiti. It is not only the main source of income for more than 100,000 farmers, but the coffee ecosystem also sustains a large part of the remaining tree cover (currently at less than 1.5 percent of land) of the country. This report does not aim to detail the structural constraints impacting upon the Haitian coffee sub-sector.

  3. Library Resource

    Bahamas, The

    Informes e investigaciones
    Documentos de política y resúmenes
    Diciembre, 2012
    Bahamas, América Latina y el Caribe

    Doing Business sheds light on how easy or difficult it is for a local entrepreneur to open and run a small to medium-size business when complying with relevant regulations. It measures and tracks changes in regulations affecting 10 areas in the life cycle of a business: starting a business, dealing with construction permits, getting electricity, registering property, getting credit, protecting investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts and resolving insolvency.

  4. Library Resource

    Jamaica

    Informes e investigaciones
    Documentos de política y resúmenes
    Diciembre, 2012
    Jamaica, América Latina y el Caribe

    Doing business sheds light on how easy or difficult it is for a local entrepreneur to open and run a small to medium-size business when complying with relevant regulations. It measures and tracks changes in regulations affecting 10 areas in the life cycle of a business: starting a business, dealing with construction permits, getting electricity, registering property, getting credit, protecting investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts and resolving insolvency.

  5. Library Resource

    Jamaica

    Informes e investigaciones
    Documentos de política y resúmenes
    Octubre, 2012
    Jamaica, América Latina y el Caribe

    This tenth edition of Doing Business sheds light on how easy or difficult it is for a local entrepreneur to open and run a small to medium-size business when complying with relevant regulations. It measures and tracks changes in regulations affecting eleven areas in the life cycle of a business: starting a business, dealing with construction permits, getting electricity, registering property, getting credit, protecting investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts, resolving insolvency and employing workers.

  6. Library Resource

    Increasing Long-term Benefits of the Sustainable Use of Marine Resources for Small Island Developing States and Coastal Least Developed Countries

    Informes e investigaciones
    Documentos de política y resúmenes
    Junio, 2017
    Oceanía, Caribe

    This report was drafted by a working group of United Nations entities, the World Bank, and other stakeholders to suggest a common understanding of the blue economy; to highlight the importance of such an approach, particularly for small island developing states and coastal least developed countries; to identify some of the key challenges its adoption poses; and to suggest some broad next steps that are called for in order to ensure its implementation.

  7. Library Resource

    Restoring Growth through Trade

    Informes e investigaciones
    Artículos de revistas y libros
    Octubre, 2016
    América central, Caribe, América Latina y el Caribe, América del Sur

    This report, produced by the Office of the Chief Economist for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) of the World Bank, examines LAC’s challenges as the global economy settles to an equilibrium with lower growth and lower commodity prices. Chapter 1 gives an overview of the world economy and how it affects LAC’s short and medium-term prospects. It argues that LAC suffered an external shock that shaped growth in recent years, and that the current global context is likely here to stay.

  8. Library Resource

    Lessons Learned from Case Studies Spanning Eight Decades

    Informes e investigaciones
    Recursos y herramientas de capacitación
    Septiembre, 2016
    Haití, América Latina y el Caribe

    Section one of this report opens with a brief environmental history of Haiti, followed by an analysis of the current state of environmental conditions, and closes with an examination of contemporary human and landscape vulnerabilities to acute and chronic environmental degradation and extreme climatic events. Section two of the report provides a brief summary of 15 regional or national landscape-level land management projects enacted in Haiti since the middle of the 20th century.

  9. Library Resource
    Artículos de revistas y libros
    Febrero, 2012
    África subsahariana, América central, América del Sur, Asia oriental, Caribe, Oceanía, Asia meridional

    Today, 370 million people live in cities in earthquake prone areas and 310 million in cities with a high probability of tropical cyclones. By 2050 these numbers are likely to more than double, leading to a greater concentration of hazard risk in many of the world's cities. The authors discuss what sets hazard risk in urban areas apart, summarize estimates of valuation of hazard risk, and discuss implications for individual mitigation and public policy.

  10. Library Resource
    Agosto, 2013
    República Dominicana, Haití, Jamaica

    This report examines the effect of
    gender on socio-economic outcomes in three Caribbean
    countries: the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Jamaica.
    Organized in three separate country notes, it covers:
    demographics, health and reproductive health, violence,
    education, labor and agriculture. The report is part of a
    large effort aimed at establishing a strategic social agenda
    in the region. Many of the key economic issues that

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