programming by sectors and by regions, and preparation, presentation and evaluation of projects

Incluye Bibliografía

América Latina: análisis de problemas sociales relativos a la mujer en diversos sectores = Latin America: analysis of the social problems affecting women in various sectors

Incluye Bibliografía

Informe del Seminario-Taller sobre Políticas para el Control y la Fiscalización de la Contaminación Atmosférica de las Fuentes Fijas de los Sectores Productivo y Energético = Report of the Seminar-Workshop on Policies for the Regulation and Control of Air Pollution from Fixed Sources in the Production and Energy Sectors

Contiene antecedentes, asistencia y organización de los trabajos y resumen de las presentaciones de la reunión que tuvo como objetivo analizar los aspectos jurídicos, institucionales, económicos y tecnológicos de la política de descontaminación ambiental. Incluye lista de documentos presentados y de participantes.

Formal quality assurance systems as a basis for environmentally-sound management practices in the public and private sectors

Includes bibliography

Urban poor and productivity: keys to action. Public programmes aimed at raising productivity of poor sectors in urban areas of Jamaica

Includes bibliography

Metodologia de localização de defeitos em redes subterrâneas integrando PSCAD/EMTDC e sistemas inteligentes

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Competitiveness of the manufacturing and agro-industrial sectors in the Caribbean with a focus on Dominica, Guyana, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Trinidad and Tobago

Includes bibliography

Antecedentes para la formulación e implementación de una política para el control y la fiscalización de la contaminación atmosférica de las fuentes fijas de los sectores productivo y energético = Background information for the formulation and implementation of a policy on the regulation and control of air pollution from fixed sources in the production and energy sectors

Incluye Bibliografía

Market and trade perspectives for the food and forestry sectors of Latin America in the Asia-Pacific Basin

Includes bibliography

Infrastructure, integration and equity: The social impact of the health and public transportation infrastructure.

Academicians and practitioners generally agree that there is a positive correlation between more and better infrastructure and economic growth. From the broader perspective of development, attempts have been made in the literature to identify the different theoretical connections and the empirical patterns that link infrastructure to productivity, on the one hand, and those that link it to social inclusion and equity, on the other hand. Infrastructure contributes to development in different ways. The capital involved is not homogeneous, nor is its effect on the distributive aspects. Water and sanitation have a particularly strong association with the health of the general population and with infant mortality, early childhood health, learning abilities and the acquisition of labour skills. With respect to transportation, the reduction of costs and travel times has a direct economic impact on economic activities of production and domestic and international distribution. That infrastructure also has a social and distributive role to play by reducing the number of fatal accidents and serious injuries in the sectors that are naturally most susceptible to them, namely, the poor. Under the broad umbrella of infrastructure, we can include a number of facilities that make possible the provision of certain services. Some of these facilities require very significant fixed capital investments; some of them are residential, while others are not necessarily. What they all have in common is the existence of networks (transportation, wiring, pipelines) and a strong convergence of physical capital and/or technology, as well as the need for major investments in periodic maintenance.

Wage differentials between the public and private sectors in Chile: Evidence from longitudinal data

Includes bibliography.

A first approach to the impact of the real exchange rate on industrial sectors in Colombia

Much has been said about possible symptoms of Dutch disease in Colombia in the wake of a marked upsurge in commodity prices and the significant real appreciation of the national currency. This paper examines whether the real effective exchange rate had an impact on industry during the period 2000-2010. Specifically, it evaluates the effect of the appreciation of the real exchange rate on the value added of 63 industrial sectors in Colombia using the Arellano and Bond (1991) generalized method of moments (gmm) estimator. Overall, our results confirm a negative relationship between real exchange rate appreciation and industry. The analysis showed that real exchange rate appreciation had a significant impact on the value added of 21 sectors: a negative effect for 18 sectors and a positive effect for 3 sectors.