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Technologies for Education: Basic Guidelines for Project Evaluation

Severin, Eugenio; Peirano, Claudia; Falck, Denise - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

. Investment in Technologies for Education (TEd), which has the goal of improving the quality of education and making it relevant …

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Knowledge to Action (K2A)

García, Luz Ángela; Luna, Elba; Rodríguez, Lorena; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

This document describes the 'Knowledge to Action' methodology, which produces and organizes actionable 'Key Learnings' for re-use by their target audience. Key Learnings captured from individual projects can help teams solve current operational challenges and improve performance indicators. The...

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Remittances from Japan to Latin America: Study of Latin American Immigrants Living and Working in Japan

Bendixen; Amandi - Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2005

Presentation showing how relatively high salaries in Japan attract Latin American immigrants who seek entrepreneurial opportunities and a better quality of life.

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The One Laptop Per Child Initiative: A Framework for Latin America and the IDB

Navarro, Juan Carlos - Inter-American Development Bank - 2006

The One Laptop Per Child initiative is an educational program that aims at deploying millions of rugged, ultra low-cost, individually connected laptop computers to the majority of children in developing nations that today lack access to such devices.

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Knowledge Capture Interview

García, Luz Ángela; Luna, Elba; Rodríguez, Lorena; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

This document provides information about the Knowledge Capture Interview, one of the methods used within the Bank's cycle to learn from experience. Specifically, it is a `learning after doing' technique that helps teams identify and share what worked and what hasn't worked, so that others within...

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Educational Software in the One-to-One Computing Programs

Tinker, Robert F.; Galvis, Alvaro H. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2006

This presentation covers the opportunities and proposed strategies of one-on-one educational methods.

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Education, Family Background and Racial Earnings Inequality in Brazil

Arias, Omar; Yamada, Gustavo; Tejerina, Luis - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002

investigate the role of race, family background and education (both the quantity and quality) in explaining earnings inequality … differences in human capital, including parental education and education quality, and in its returns, account for most but not all … discrimination at the higher salary jobs at any given skill level. The authors also find that returns to education vary significantly …

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Bridging Gaps, Building Opportunity: Broadband as a Catalyst of Economic Growth and Social Progress in Latin America and the Caribbean: A View from the Industry

Zeballos, Antonio Gacía; Nakata, Truitt; Vidal, Eloy; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

This report is intended to encourage and reinforce the efforts of policymakers and industry stakeholders throughout the region to accelerate broadband deployment. The report has two primary aims. The first is to help identify public policy and regulatory issues that need to be addressed in order...

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Peer Assist

García, Luz Ángela; Luna, Elba; Rodríguez, Lorena; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

This document describes the Peer Assist, which is a facilitated workshop, held face-to-face or virtually, in which a diverse group of participants from inside and/or outside the Bank share their experiences and insights with a team that wants to benefit from what others have learned, before it...

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Political Consensus Building: The Brasilia International Conference on the Millennium Development Goals in Latin America and the Caribbean

Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2003

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, the Inter-American Development Bank, the United Nations Development Program and the World Bank reiterated their support for the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean to establish the basis for a renewed political consensus...

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