From Institutions to Financial Development and Growth: What Are the Links?
Mar 2015 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Fernández Martín, Andrés;Rud, Juan Pablo
This paper presents an integrated overview of the literature linking institutions, financial development and economic growth. From the large body of research on institutional development, the paper…
Maternity and Labor Markets: Impact of Legislation in Colombia
Mar 2015 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Ramírez Bustamante, Natalia;Tribin Uribe, Ana Maria;Vargas, Carmiña
This study seeks to determine the impact on female labor outcomes of the amendment to the Colombian labor law that extended maternity leave from 12 to 14 weeks (Law 1468 of July 2011). To identify…
Office of Institutional Integrity and Sanctions System: Annual Report 2014
Mar 2015
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank;Aldana, Maristella;Ronderos, Juan Gabriel;Weaver, Bernardo
This Annual Report reflects the work of the Office of Institutional Integrity (OII), the Case Officer (CO) and the Sanctions Committee (SNC), which are primarily responsible for overseeing the…
Office of Evaluation and Oversight Annual Report 2013-2014: Evaluation Overview and Implications for IDB Support to Growth and Poverty Reduction
Mar 2015
Author(s): Gray, Cheryl;Crespo, Anna Risi Vianna;Linares, Ana María;Martin, Lucia;Palomino, Alejandro;Sembler, Jose Ignacio;Soldano, Miguel;Székely, Miguel;Bolza-Schunemann, Eva;Ramirez-Goldin, Ana;Ruiz, Mayra;Beltrán, Víctor;Torres, Mauricio;Vellani, Saleema;Celse L'Hoste, Margareth;Marto, Ricardo
This first Annual Report reviews the past two years of OVE's work, 2013-2014. It is designed in two parts. Part I reports on OVE's recent evaluation activities and findings, on developments…
Development Effectiveness Overview (DEO) 2014
Mar 2015
Author(s): Bueso-Merriam, Jacqueline;Galindo, Arturo;Gómez-Peña, Andrés
The Development Effectiveness Overview (DEO) is an annual report produced by the IDB to show the results and impact of its work in Latin America and the Caribbean. It reports on the IDB's…
Decentralizing Revenue in Latin America: Why and How (Executive Summary)
Mar 2015 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Fretes Cibils, Vicente;Ter-Minassian, Teresa;Scrofina, J. Sebastián;Ortega, Federico;Ríos, Germán;Rasteletti, Alejandro;Ramírez Verdugo, Arturo;Pineda, Emilio;Martínez-Vázquez, Jorge;Sepúlveda, Cristián;Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo;Zenteno, Jannet;España Eljaiek, Irina;Sánchez Torres, Fabio;Brosio, Giorgio;Templado, Ivana;Moskovits, Cynthia;Cristini, Marcela;Auguste, Sebastián;Artana, Daniel
This book analyzes the reasons for lackluster performance selected Latin American countries in mobilizing subnational own-source revenues and explores policy options to increase these revenues as…
INTAL Monthly Newsletter: No 222: February, 2015
Mar 2015
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank
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…
Labor Exclusion and the Erosion of Citizenship Responsibilities
Mar 2015 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Ronconi, Lucas;Zarazaga, Rodrigo
This paper shows that workers who do not receive legally mandated benefits due to employer noncompliance have a negative view not only of their employers, as has been documented, but also of the…
Progress Report (2012-2013) of the MDB Working Group on Sustainable Transport
Mar 2015
Author(s): African Development Bank;Asian Development Bank;Development Bank of Latin America;European Bank for Reconstruction and Development;European Investment Bank;Inter-American Development Bank;Islamic Development Bank;World Bank
In June 2012, at the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (hereafter Rio+20), our eight institutions delivered the joint statement "Commitment to Sustainable Transport…
Progress Report (2013-2014) of the MDB Working Group on Sustainable Transport
Mar 2015
Author(s): African Development Bank;Asian Development Bank;Development Bank of Latin America;European Bank for Reconstruction and Development;European Investment Bank;Inter-American Development Bank;Islamic Development Bank;World Bank
1. In June 2012, at the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, our eight Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) delivered a joint statement Commitment to Sustainable Transport (…
Macroeconomic and Financial Consequences of the Post-Crisis Government-Driven Credit Expansion in Brazil
Mar 2015 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Bonomo, Marco;Brito, Ricardo;Martins, Bruno
Government-driven credit played an important role in countervailing the private credit crunch in Brazil during the recent financial crisis. However, government credit concessions continued to expand…
Returns to Higher Education in Chile and Colombia
Mar 2015 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): González-Velosa, Carolina;Rucci, Graciana;Sarzosa, Miguel;Urzúa, Sergio
In the last decades, countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have experienced a dramatic increase in the levels of higher education enrollment. Using administrative data from Chile and Colombia…
Challenges in Educational Reform: An Experiment on Active Learning in Mathematics
Mar 2015 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Berlinski, Samuel;Busso, Matías
This paper reports the results of an experiment with secondary school students designed to improve their ability to reason, argument, and communicate using mathematics. These goals are at the core…
Corruption as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Costa Rica
Mar 2015 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Gingerich, Daniel;Oliveros, Virginia;Corbacho, Ana;Ruiz-Vega, Mauricio
An influential body of scholarship argues that corruption behaves as a selffulfilling prophecy. The idea of this work is that levels of corruption emerge endogenously as a result of a society-wide…
The Experience of Latin America and the Caribbean in Urbanization: Knowledge Sharing Forum on Development Experiences: Comparative Experiences of Korea and Latin America and the Caribbean
Mar 2015
Author(s): Ezquiaga Arquitectura, Sociedad y Territorio S.L.
The developing region that has experienced one of the greatest urban growth in the world is Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). More than 80% of its population currently lives in cities and this…
Tèt dwat pou peyi'm vanse: Stories of How Haiti is Moving Forward
Mar 2015
Author(s): Teeple, Jim;Deibert, Michael;Helleranta, Meri;Antón Díaz, Pablo;Azevedo, Viviane;Lalime, Thomas;Santelices, Cristian;Sipp, Caroline
This publication takes stock of the efforts Haiti is making to transform several key sectors. Some are fundamental for economic growth; others are essential for improving its people's living…
Energy Reform and Local Content in Mexico: Effects on the Hydrocarbons Sector
Feb 2015
Author(s): Casas-Alatriste, José Antonio;Espinasa, Ramón
This study results from a need to have more precise knowledge of the recently approved Energy Reform, and its secondary laws and regulations. It identifies opportunities that may arise for…
Connecting Employment Training with Labor Market Demand and Opportunities
Feb 2015
Author(s): International Youth Foundation
The "Connecting employment training with labor market demand and opportunities" guide is a publication that makes available to education and employment training entities a series of…
Growth in Labor Earnings across the Income Distribution: Latin America during the 2000s
Feb 2015
Author(s): Brambilla, Irene;Tortarolo, Dario
The objective of this paper is to characterize the evolution of labor earnings in Latin America during the 2000s, a decade of markedly poverty reduction. Based on household surveys for six countries…
Meaningful Talk
Feb 2015 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Streb, Jorge M.;Torrens, Gustavo
This paper develops a semiotic-inferential model of verbal communication for incomplete information games: a language is seen as a set of conventional signs that point to types, and the credibility…