Jun 2016
Author(s): Rojas-Suárez, Liliana
This paper shows that, in spite of recent progress in the usage of alternative financial services by adult populations, Latin America's financial inclusion gaps relative to either high-income…
Jun 2016
Author(s): Lee, Sang Keon;Kwon, Heeseo Rain;Cho, HeeAh;Kim, Jongbok;Lee, Donju
This case study is one of ten international studies developed by the Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements (KRIHS), in association with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), for the…
Jun 2016
Author(s): Lee, Sang Keon;Kwon, Heeseo Rain;Cho, HeeAh;Kim, Jongbok;Lee, Donju
This case study is one of ten international studies developed by the Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements (KRIHS), in association with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), for the…
Jun 2016
Author(s): Lee, Sang Keon;Kwon, Heeseo Rain;Cho, HeeAh;Kim, Jongbok;Lee, Donju
This case study is one of ten international studies developed by the Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements (KRIHS), in association with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), for the…
Jun 2016
Author(s): Lee, Sang Keon;Kwon, Heeseo Rain;Cho, HeeAh;Kim, Jongbok;Lee, Donju
This case study is one of ten international studies developed by the Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements (KRIHS), in association with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), for the…
Jun 2016
Author(s): Lee, Sang Keon;Kwon, Heeseo Rain;Cho, HeeAh;Kim, Jongbok;Lee, Donju
This case study is one of ten international studies developed by the Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements (KRIHS), in association with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), for the…
Jun 2016
Author(s): Ruiz Pozuelo, Julia;Slipowitz, Amy;Vuletin, Guillermo
This online appendix presents a thorough analysis of the nature, dynamics, and most important events for 38 cases of democratization, including the list of democracy experts and key country-specific…
Jun 2016
Author(s): Sutton, Heather
This report is part of an IDB technical note series on crime and violence in the Caribbean. The overall aim is to establish a baseline in the crime prevention arena against which progress can be…
Jun 2016
Author(s): Seepersad, Randy
This report is part of an IDB Technical Note series on crime and violence in the Caribbean. The overall aim is to establish a baseline of the crime prevention arena against which progress can be…
Jun 2016
Author(s): Harriot, Anthony D.;Jones, Marlyn
This report is part of an IDB technical note series on crime and violence in the Caribbean. The overall aim is to establish a baseline of the crime prevention arena against which progress can be…
Jun 2016
Author(s): Bailey, Corin
This report is part of the Inter-American Development Bank's Technical Note Series on Crime and Violence in the Caribbean. The overall aim is to establish a baseline of the crime-prevention…
Jun 2016
Author(s): Gutiérrez Bayo, Jaime
This case study is one of ten international case studies developed by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), in association with the Korean Research Institute for Human Settlements (KRIHS), for…
Jun 2016
Author(s): Amar Flórez, Darío
This case study is one of ten international case studies developed by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), in association with the Korean Research Institute for Human Settlements (KRIHS), for…
Jun 2016 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Fernández-Arias, Eduardo;Sabel, Charles;Stein, Ernesto H.;Trejos, Alberto
It takes two to tango. Strong public-private collaboration is key for discovering and implementing effective productive development policies to bring out the best in existing economic activities and…
Jun 2016
Author(s): Grazzi, Matteo;Pietrobelli, Carlo;Crespi, Gustavo;Tacsir, Ezequiel;Vargas, Fernando;Mohan, Preeya;Strobl, Eric;Watson, Patrick;Jung, Juan;González-Velosa, Carolina;Rosas-Shady, David;Flores Lima, Jose Gregorio Roberto;Kantis, Hugo;Federico, Juan;Angelelli, Pablo;Ibarra, Sabrina;Cathles, Alison;Pangerl, Siobhan;Rabellotti, Roberta;Montalbano, Pierluigi;Nenci, Silvia;Presbitero, Andrea
This volume uses the study of firm dynamics to investigate the factors preventing faster productivity growth in Latin America and the Caribbean, pushing past the limits of traditional macroeconomic…
Jun 2016
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank
This publication tells the story of the collaboration between the Inter-American Development Bank, PepsiCo, and the PepsiCo Foundation. At a February 2011 ceremony in Mexico City, a five-year…
Jun 2016
Author(s): Cavallo, Eduardo A.;Fernández-Arias, Eduardo;Marzani, Matías
This paper shows, using probit analysis, that low national savings increase the risk of macroeconomic crisis. Foreign savings are a poor substitute of national savings not only for domestic…
Jun 2016
Author(s): Scholl, Lynn;Bouillon, César P.;Oviedo, Daniel;Corsetto, Lisa;Jansson, Maya
This evaluation expands a previous evaluation of the Office of Evaluation and Oversight of the BRT project results with respect to their objectives of improving mobility and access for the poor. It…
Jun 2016
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank
INTAL Connection informs on integration and trade in Latin America and the Caribbean and disseminate IADB activities on this topics.
Jun 2016
Author(s): Cavallo, Eduardo A.;Serebrisky, Tomás;Frisancho, Verónica;Karver, Jonathan;Powell, Andrew;Margot, Diego;Suárez-Alemán, Ancor;Fernández-Arias, Eduardo;Marzani, Matías;Berstein, Solange;Bosch, Mariano;Oliveri, María Laura;Izquierdo, Alejandro;Busso, Matías;Fernandez, Andres;Rud, Juan Pablo
Why should people--and economies-- save? The typical answer usually focuses on the need to protect against future shocks, to smooth consumption during hard times, in short, to save for the proverbial…