Expenditures, investment and financing for sustainable development in Trinidad and Tobago

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Expenditures, investment and financing for sustainable development in Brazil

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Two stops in today's new global geographies: shaping novel labor supplies and employment regimes

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Renewable energy and energy efficiency in Latin America and the Caribbean: constraints and prospects

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Power system capacity expansion planning model considering carbon emissions constraints

This paper presents a power system capacity expansion planning modelconsidering carbon emissions constraints. In addition to the traditionaltechnical and economical issues usually considered in the planning process, two environmental policies that consist on the taxation and the annual limitsof carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions are considered. Furthermore, the gradualretirement of old inefficient generation plants has been included. The approachguarantees a cleaner electricity production in the expanded power system ata relatively low cost. The proposed model considers the transmission systemand is applied to a 4-region and 11-region power systems over a 20-yearplanning horizon. Results show practical investment decisions in terms of sustainability and costs.

Financiamiento del desarrollo regional = Regional development financing

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The programming of short-term financing

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Saving and investment under external and fiscal constraints

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Self-financing water supply and sanitation services

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Financing decentralization

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Capital movements and external financing

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Central America: macroeconomic performance and social financing

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Reform to health system financing in Chile

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Reflections on development financing

This article sets forth some reflections on the position of the region's countries and the different segments of their domestic financial structures in the international financial system. In the light of the financial globalization taking place in Latin America, it considers the circumstances of the largest countries in the region, looking beyond the stylized arguments of conventional wisdom to analyse different factors influencing the financial situation: sovereignty risk, financial globalization, the degree of financial integration, the cost of capital and the burden of country risk premiums, the link between sovereign risk and fiscal solvency and the consequences of segmented integration. Consideration is then given to courses of action that could reduce country risk. In addition, the role of the different institutional sectors in generating savings is analysed, and the main trends of financial intermediation in the region are considered: banking concentration, the increased involvement of foreign organizations and the role of the public-sector banking system in the circumstances that now prevail.