Farm Size Distribution, Weather Shocks, and Agricultural Productivity
Apr 2026 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Arteaga Vallejo, Julian Gabriel;De Roux, Nicolas;Gáfaro, Margarita;Ibáñez, Ana María;Pellegrina, Heitor S.
We study how weather shocks affect the farm-size distribution and agricultural productivity. Using survey data from several developing countries, we document new empirical patterns in farm-size…
The Effect of Water Hauling Time on Children’s School Enrollment in Haiti
Mar 2026 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Couto Ribeiro, Beatriz ;Castillo, Adriana;Pérez Urdiales, María
Limited access to safe and proximate water remains a defining constraint in Haiti, where access to piped water remains limited and school enrollment is not universal. Using a pseudo-panel constructed…
What Helps Promote Digital Public Services? Experimental Evidence of Digital Identification in Uruguay
Mar 2026 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Roseth, Benjamin;Santamaria, Julieth;Berton, Juan;Dornel, Susana
Digital public services significantly reduce transaction costs for citizens and service delivery costs for the government, facilitating access to benefits and rights and enabling the fulfillment of…
Labor Market Disparities by Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Mexico
Mar 2026 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Muñoz, Ercio;Saavedra, Melanie;Sansone, Dario
This paper studies socioeconomic disparities in Mexico based on sexual orientation and gender identity using data from a nationally representative survey collected between 2021 and 2022 (N44,189). It…
2025 Partnership Report: From Strategy to Action. From Shared Ambition to Impact
Mar 2026
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank
In 2025, the IDB Group delivered a historic year, reaching record levels of financing and mobilization while advancing the reforms needed to operate with greater scale, speed, and impact. Yet the…
BIDEconomics: Belize Landscape of Opportunities
Mar 2026
Author(s): Pecha, Camilo;Ochoa, Elizabeth
Abstract: Belize stands at a pivotal moment in its development trajectory. Following a strong post-COVID recovery, driven by tourism, agricultural exports, the expansion of business process…
Independent Country Program Review: Suriname 2021-2025
Mar 2026
Author(s): Corrales, Luis Fernando;Maciel, Odette;King, Dana Michael;Usher, Nicole Marie;Fuscaldo Jalkh, Isabella;González, Jorge;Molina Fernández, Miguel;Vaca, Orlando;Rubio Jaramillo, Nicole Mishel;Soriano, Alejandro;Motta, Marialisa
This Independent Country Program Review (ICPR) assesses the relevance, alignment, implementation, and contributions of the Inter-American Development Bank Group's (IDB Group) 2021-2025 Country…
Unpacking Housing Affordability in The Bahamas
Mar 2026
Author(s): Rajack, Robin Michael;Saboin, José Luis;Small, Charlene Marie;Davis, Timyka;Mazzocca, Angelo
This note seeks to enrich the discussion on potential solutions in the housing sector of The Bahamas. It builds on the IMFs April 2025 Bahamas Housing Affordability Report providing insights through…
Putting Numbers on a Continent: Spatial Measurement of Economic Activity in Amazonia
Mar 2026
Author(s): García, Pablo M.;Duran-Fernandez, Roberto;Figueroa Guajardo, David Alejandro
Despite its continental scale and global relevance, Amazonia lacks spatially disaggregated, consistent GDP measures, leaving its economy largely unmeasured at the scale where development and…
Are We Ready for AI? From Measurement to Policy Governance
Mar 2026
Author(s): Levy Yeyati, Eduardo
Artificial intelligence readiness indexes have become influential tools shaping national strategies and international development priorities. But major AI readiness and governance rankings show…
Credit Rationing and Size-Contingent Eligibility Criteria
Mar 2026
Author(s): Támola, Alejandro;Joachín, Arturo;Fernández Díez, María Carmen
Public interventions in credit markets frequently prioritize micro, small, and medium enterprises, often excluding large firms based on the explicit or implicit assumption that they do not face…
BIDEconomics: Landscape of Opportunities in Suriname
Mar 2026
Author(s): Castilleja Vargas, Liliana
Surinames economy is recovering from recent shocks but continues to face persistent, overlapping geographic, ethnic, and gender disparities that have entrenched exclusion and deprivation. At the same…
Managing and Communicating Government Transitions: A Practical Toolkit
Mar 2026
Author(s): Alessandro, Martín;Arrieta, Dolores;Naranjo Bautista, Sandra
Government transitions are critical processes in which state leadership is rapidly replaced without interrupting public services. In Latin America and the Caribbean, these transitions are often…
Relative Income and Gender Norms: Evidence from Latin America
Mar 2026 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Muñoz, Ercio;Sansone, Dario;Tampellini Silva, Joao Pedro
Using census data from over 500,000 dual-earner households in Mexico, we show that couples in which the wife earns just above half of the household income are far less common than those in which she…
Inter-American Development Bank Annual Report 2025: The Year in Review
Mar 2026
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank
The Annual Report contains a review of the Bank's operations in 2025 (loans, guarantees and grants). The second volume contains the full set of the financial statements of the Bank's…
Inter-American Development Bank Annual Report 2025: Financial Statements
Mar 2026
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank
This report is the second of two volumes which together constitute the Inter-American Development Bank's 2025 Annual Report. This report contains the management's discussion and analysis of…
IDB Group Data Wall 2026: From Evidence to Impact: Latin America and the Caribbean in Numbers
Mar 2026
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank;IDB Invest;IDB Lab
This publication presents the downloadable version of the IDB Group Data Wall, offering a data-rich overview of Latin America and the Caribbean across key development areas, including energy and…
Do Special Transfers to Incentivize Local Tax Revenue Effort Work?
Mar 2026 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo;Cansino Montanez, Kenyi Alain;Castro-Peñarrieta, Luis ;Martínez-Vázquez, Jorge;Beverinotti, Javier
Many decentralized countries struggle with low levels of subnational tax effort. As a remedy for this situation, specific-purpose incentive schemes designed for own revenue mobilization at the…
The Effects of Product Differentiation and Process Innovation on Credit Rationing
Mar 2026 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Gómez, Laura;Joachín, Arturo;Támola, Alejandro;Fernández Díez, María Carmen
Informational credit rationing is a disequilibrium phenomenon in credit markets, in which price mechanisms fail to allocate credit efficiently due to informational frictions. It is commonly argued…
2026 Latin American and Caribbean Macroeconomic Report: Resilience and Growth Prospects in a Shifting Global Economy
Mar 2026 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Ayres, João;Juvenal, Luciana
Latin America and the Caribbean enters 2026 amid a complex global environment marked by heightened geopolitical tensions, shifting trade policies, and persistently high global interest rates that…