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    Gestion Ambinetalmente adecuada de resisous solidos

    United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 1998
    Paper on environmentally appropriate solid waste management in Latin America
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    Foreign investment in Latin America and the Caribbean 1997

    United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 1998
    Innovative analytic bridges are established linking the official data on foreign direct investment flows and related information at the sectoral and company levels found in the specialized press to the information collected directly by the Unit through company questionnaires and interviews.
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    Guide to the Investment Regimes of the APEC Member Economies

    Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, 1998
    National profiles on: background on the foreign investment regime; regulatory framework and investment facilitation; investment protection; investment promotion and incentives; summary of international investment agreements or codes to which the APEC member is a party; assessment of recent trends in foreign investment.
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    Paradigm Case Illustrations of Incremental Cost Analysis

    Program for Measuring Incremental Costs for the Evironment, GEF, 1999
    The application of the incremental cost assessment to biodiversity has always been uncertain. This paper seeks to demonstrate that the concept is a workable one in biodiversity. This paper has a twofold aim:1. to make explicit the strategic and logical approach to incremental cost assessment- to demonstrate that it is replicable and applicable to all GEF projects2.
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    Social Dimensions of Adjustment:World Bank Experience, 1980-93

    Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 1995
    The principal message of this study is that good macroeconomic policies and measures—combined with relevant sectoral policies and appropriate public expenditure allocation—provide a favorable environment for accelerating savings and investment, both necessary for sustained economic growth and poverty reduction (Figure 1).
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    The Caribbean Region: A Review on World Bank Assistance

    Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 1994
    The small island economies of the Caribbean pose conceptual and operational questions for the Bank—foremost, how can it assist these countries' development efforts in a cost-effective way?
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    CARE Village Banks Project, Guatemala

    Sustainable Banking with the Poor ,World Bank, 1998
    The Women’s Village Banking (VB) Program of CARE Guatemala provides particularly interesting insights into some of the issues and challenges facing village banking programs around the world. Like many programs started in the 1980's, the CARE VB program was created as an experiment in the increasingly popular field of microenterprise finance.
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    Guatemala: Proyecto de bancos comunales de CARE

    Sustainable Banking with the Poor ,World Bank, 1998
    El Programa de Bancos Comunales de mujeres de CARE en Guatemala (BC) resalta algunos de los retos que enfrentan los programas de bancos comunales a través del mundo. De la misma manera que muchos otros programas que se iniciaron en los ochentas, este programa fue creado como un experimento en el área de microfinanzas.
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    FINCA: Insights from a unique approach to village banking [in Costa Rica]

    Sustainable Banking with the Poor ,World Bank, 1998
    FINCA Costa Rica has been both a leader and a non-conformist in village banking. As one of the first village banking examples in Latin America, the program offers valuable lessons to other village banking institutions. While still retaining the FINCA name, FINCA Costa Rica has split from FINCA International, the US-based NGO that is credited with developing the village banking methodology.
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    The Effects of Hyper-Inflation on Accounting Ratios Financing Corporate Growth in Industrial Economies

    International Finance Corporation, 1997
    Hyper-inflation can have a severe distortionary effect on the pattern of corporate finance which is apparent from company accounts. A simple algorithm, based upon the method of inflation accounting applied in Brazil, is developed and applied to the accounts of listed companies in Turkey for the period 1982-90.

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