According to a report by the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), perception of insecurity has gone down in the three districts where the metropolitan police operates.
TO THE alphabet soup of international development banks (ADB, AfDB, CAF, EBRD, IADB), add one more set of initials: AIIB, or for the uninitiated, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.
In the 2001-10 period, for instance, the IADB finds that growth in TFP accounted for only 58% of overall per-head income growth.
The importance of improved productivity is also hammered home by the latest annual macroeconomic report of the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), which was released this weekend.The appendix to the report underlines the role of productivity in explaining the region's economic trajectory over the past 50 years.
The orange line in the chart, which is taken from the IADB report, shows the relative performance of Latin America in terms of per-person GDP compared with the United States since 1960.
In total, it's estimated that Latin America uses no more than 5% of its geothermal potential of 300 terawatt-hour per year, according to reports released by the Inter-American Development Band (IADB) and the World Bank.
Since 2003, the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) has supported a peace and citizen co-existence project in the Sula Valley covering some 17 municipalities.
This resulted in IADB funds being diverted and eventually frozen.
The following taxable and tax-exempt fixed-income issues are scheduled for pricing this week: TAXABLE ONE DAY DURING THE WEEK IADB, $2 billion of global debt securities due in 2010.
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