Apr 2015
No existe actualmente un método o instrumento que permita medir y evaluar el uso de las estadísticas para el diseño de las políticas públicas. La evaluación del desarrollo estadístico de los países…
Apr 2015
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This paper studies the effect of mandated employer-provided child care on the wages of women hired in large firms in Chile. We use a unique employer-employee database from the country's…
Apr 2015
This Technical Note identifies climate change risk management options that can be incorporated into IDB investments and presents considerations for monitoring and evaluation strategies to track the…
Apr 2015
The 2015 first quarter edition of the Quarterly Business Review (QBR) provides management with a status of the Bank's performance. The QBR reports on outputs, lending program priorities and…
Apr 2015
The INTAL Monthly Newsletter reports on developments in integration and trade across Latin American and the Caribbean. It also serves as a forum for discussing the IDB's activities related to…
Mar 2015
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This paper investigates the effects of political (mis)alignment on public service delivery when mandates are shared between state and local governments. We analyze sewage treatment policies in the…
Mar 2015
The Caribbean Region Quarterly Bulletin discusses recent economic developments in the 6 IDB-member Caribbean countries, as well as the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS). Being the first…
Mar 2015
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate interdisciplinary research on vulnerability indexes to climate change. The paper presents a systematized analysis of recent literature on agriculture, coastal…
Mar 2015
The Annual Report contains a review of the Bank's operations in 2014 (loans, guarantees and grants). The second volume contains the full set of the financial statements of the Bank's…
Mar 2015
This report is the second of two volumes which together constitute the Inter-American Development Bank's 2014 Annual Report. This report contains the management's discussion and analysis of…
Mar 2015
This file contains aggregate indicators of the situation of non-agricultural formal and informal small businesses. The survey gives especial attention to small businesses in the informal sector. The…
Mar 2015
The Brazilian Electoral Panel Study (BEPS) was designed primarily to capture campaign dynamics at the national level during the 2010 Brazilian presidential election. It aimed at generating data that…
Mar 2015
The 2015 Latin American and Caribbean Macroeconomic Report argues that the region is in the midst of a labyrinth and must navigate several global and domestic obstacles -including lower commodity…
Mar 2015
This report highlights the Inter-American Development Bank's sustainability performance in 2014, both in achieving institutional sustainability investment and safeguards targets, as well as…
Mar 2015
Passenger crowding is one of the main problems in Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) systems. This document presents an analysis and valuation of passenger crowding in two Latin American BRT systems. First,…
Mar 2015
This brochure belongs to the High-Level Seminar: New Horizons in Latin America and Caribbean - Asia Development Cooperation Identifying Development Solutions through South-South and Triangular…
Mar 2015
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This paper first compares house price cycles in advanced and emerging economies using a new quarterly house price dataset covering the period 1990- 2012. It is found that that house prices in…
Mar 2015
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This paper evaluates the impact of the Bono Trabajador Activo, a training voucher program in Chile, on workers' labor market outcomes. Using detailed administrative datasets of the National…
Mar 2015
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This paper builds a small open economy business cycle model with labor and financial market frictions that incorporates frictional, endogenous self-employment entry and a link between formal credit…
Mar 2015
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For Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), Asia has gone from an afterthought to a centerpiece of economic relations over the last decade. Seemingly out of nowhere, fast-growing Asian economies…