Brazil: Bulwark of Inter-American Relations

Inter-American Development Bank

Remarks: The attached report is one of the evaluations of the first “Groups” of MIF projects—Alternative dispute resolution (document MIF/GN-78-2), Micro-finance (document MIF/GN-78-3), Financial reform and capital markets (document MIF/GN-78-4). The summary report (document MIF/GN-78-1) brings together the initial findings from each report on the evaluations and attempts to derive general less...

Inter-American Development Bank

Remarks: The attached report is one of the evaluations of the first “Groups” of MIF projects—Alternative dispute resolution (document MIF/GN-78-2), Micro-finance (document MIF/GN-78-3), Financial reform and capital markets (document MIF/GN-78-4). The summary report (document MIF/GN-78-1) brings together the initial findings from each report on the evaluations and attempts to derive general less...

Inter-American Development Bank

and other participants at the Conference on Temporary Trade Shocks held in Oxford.

Inter-American Development Bank

Inter-American Development Bank

This project analyzes the impact of land titling on child health and education. The empirical evaluation of the effect of land property rights typically suffers from selection problems. The allocation of property rights across households is usually not random but based on wealth, family characteristics, political clientelism, or other mechanisms built on differences between the groups that acqu...