Mar 2016
Author(s): Del Río Paracolls, Carmen
Around the world, government agricultural policies often make the prices paid by consumers much higher or lower than they would be withoutpolicy interventions. This infographic shows the latest…
Mar 2016 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Solera, Marco;Durán, Esteban;Prat, Jordi;Dumas, Víctor;Lafuente, Mariano;Ardanaz, Martín;Gutiérrez Juárez, Priscilla;Vargas Cullell, Jorge;Beverinotti, Javier
Social spending is a powerful tool to reduce poverty, achieve higher equality and better life conditions for the inhabitants of a country. In "Social Expenditure in Central America, Panama and…
Mar 2016
Author(s): Boyce, Rachel;Del Río Paracolls, Carmen
Around the world, government agricultural policies often make the prices paid by consumers much higher or lower than they would be withoutpolicy interventions. This infographic shows the latest…
Mar 2016
Author(s): Boyce, Rachel;Del Río Paracolls, Carmen
Around the world, government agricultural policies often make the prices paid by consumers much higher or lower than they would be withoutpolicy interventions. This infographic shows the latest…
Mar 2016
Author(s): Boyce, Rachel;Del Río Paracolls, Carmen
Around the world, government agricultural policies often make the prices paid by consumers much higher or lower than they would be withoutpolicy interventions. This infographic shows the latest…
Mar 2016
Author(s): Boyce, Rachel;Del Río Paracolls, Carmen
Around the world, government agricultural policies often make the prices paid by consumers much higher or lower than they would be withoutpolicy interventions. This infographic shows the latest…
Mar 2016
Author(s): Boyce, Rachel;Del Río Paracolls, Carmen
Around the world, government agricultural policies often make the prices paid by consumers much higher or lower than they would be withoutpolicy interventions. This infographic shows the latest…
Mar 2016
Author(s): Boyce, Rachel;Del Río Paracolls, Carmen
Around the world, government agricultural policies often make the prices paid by consumers much higher or lower than they would be withoutpolicy interventions. This infographic shows the latest…
Feb 2016 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Bando, Rosangela;Uribe, Claudia
Credit constraints are central to development economics theory. However, there is scant direct evidence that supports the existence of such constraints. Traditional tests observe how consumption…
Feb 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.
Feb 2016
Author(s): González-Velosa, Carolina;Rucci, Graciana
In Latin America and the Caribbean and in more advanced economies there is evidence that suggests an imbalance between the skills of the workforce and the skills demanded by the productive sector. If…
Feb 2016 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): López-Calva, Luis Felipe;Levy Algazi, Santiago
Over the last two decades Mexico has had an open trade regime, experienced macroeconomic stability, and made substantial progress in education. However, average workers¿ earnings have stagnated and…
Feb 2016
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank
The world outlook in 2015, marked by financial market volatility, a downturn in the world economy and the El Niño phenomenon, has not prevented the countries of the Central American isthmus and the…
Feb 2016
Author(s): Rogers, Roger;Wenner, Mark D.;Clarke, Dillon
The government of Guyana signed a rice compensation agreement with Venezuela in 2009 wherein Guyanese rice exports were accepted in partial payment for imports of Venezuelan oil. The agreement ended…
Feb 2016
Author(s): Hernández Romero, Karla
The Avancemos conditional cash transfer (CCT) program, which has operated since 2006 in Costa Rica, focuses on families living in extreme poverty and social vulnerability with adolescents and youth…
Feb 2016
Author(s): Humpert, Malte;Espinasa, Ramón
This Energy Dossier is part of a series of publications produced by the Energy Division of the Infrastructure and Environment Department of the Inter American Development Bank. It is designed to…
Feb 2016
Author(s): Schijman, Agustina;Alonso, Pablo;Sembler, Jose Ignacio;Khadr, Ali;Di Tata, Juan Carlos;Britton, Kathryn;Hernández, María José;Mendieta Umaña, Maria Paula;Beltrán, Víctor;Rodríguez, Jorge;Ramirez-Goldin, Ana;Gray, Cheryl
This technical note was prepared by IDB's Office of Evaluation and Oversight (OVE) as an input for OVE's 2015 Annual Report. The paper takes an integral look at IDB policy-based lending, a…
Feb 2016
Author(s): Gray, Cheryl;Schijman, Agustina
This is the second time the Office of Evaluation and Oversight at the Inter-American Development Bank prepares an Annual Report. As in last year's report, the first part provides a brief…
Feb 2016
Author(s): Espinasa, Ramón
New production in the United States, due to a significant increase in unconventional oil reserves that were not exploited until recently, is changing the outlook for the international oil market. The…
Feb 2016
Author(s): Sosa, Mariano;Powell, Andrew
The November 2015 surveys of expectations conducted by Central Banks with inflation targeting regimes indicate that the simple average growth expectations for 2015 for the eight countries covered by…