Bridging Skills and Employment: A Review of Advanced Digital Skills Training, Online Labor Market Programs, and Innovative Training Methodologies
Dec 2025 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Freundt, Richard;Novella, Rafael;Rosas-Shady, David
Digital transformation is reshaping labor markets, increasing demand for advanced digital skills and creating new employment opportunities. This document provides a thematic review of robust impact…
Study on the Role of Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) in payments for environmental services (PES) in the legal Amazon Region
Dec 2025
Author(s): Dellasta, Heitor;Campos, Fernando
This study analyzes the role of Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) in designing, implementing, and mobilizing resources for Payment for Environmental Services (PES) schemes in Brazils Legal…
Climate Public Expenditure: Notes for the Convergence of Budget Classification and Marking Systems
Dec 2025
Author(s): Eguino, Huáscar;Loo-Kung, Rudy;Buttazzoni, Marco;Delgado, Raúl;Torres, Amelí;Rodríguez Ochoa, Asier;Martínez, Yanín;Bequedano, Jairon;Hernández, Camila;Samaniego, Adriana
Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have made significant progress in estimating public climate spending. However, there are significant challenges to harmonizing the systems used to…
What Hospitals are Good or Bad? A Deviance Analysis of Public Sector Hospitals in Brazil
Dec 2025 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Bauhoff, Sebastian;Goyeneche, Laura
This study examines the characteristics of public sector 3,470 hospitals with high and low risk-adjusted intra-hospital mortality rates in Brazil, using administrative data for 2023 and 2013 from the…
Markets for Development: Improving Lives through Competition: Executive Summary
Dec 2025
Author(s): Alviarez, Vanessa;Busso, Matías;Keefer, Philip;Santos, Cezar;Stucchi, Rodolfo
Latin America and the Caribbean has made major social and macroeconomic strides, yet growth and productivity remain weak. Markets for Development: Improving Lives through Competition argues that the…
Markets for Development: Improving Lives through Competition
Dec 2025 Generative AI enabled
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Latin America and the Caribbean has made major social and macroeconomic strides, yet growth and productivity remain weak. Markets for Development: Improving Lives through Competition argues that the…
Creating Public Payroll Indicators: A Methodological Guide
Dec 2025
Author(s): Schuster, Christian;Naranjo Bautista, Sandra;Lipinski, Robert
Effective public pay and employment practices are vital to fiscal sustainability and a capable workforce. This technical note provides practical, replicable methodological guidance for analyzing a…
Office of Institutional Integrity and Sanctions System: Annual Report 2024
Dec 2025
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank
This Annual Report reflects the work of the Office of Institutional Integrity (OII), the Sanctions Officer (SO) and the Sanctions Committee (SNC), which together are responsible for overseeing the…
Driving through the Gig Economy in Latin America: Uber Drivers' Views on Needs, Risks, and Opportunities
Dec 2025
Author(s): Azuara Herrera, Oliver;Lugo Ibarra, Mariana;Jaramillo Vasconez, Oscar Eduardo
The Uber-IPSOS 2024 study provides the most comprehensive assessment to date of Uber drivers in Latin America, capturing insights from more than 13,000 respondents across the region. It reveals that…
Powering Through Drought: The Impact of Water Scarcity on Electricity Generation
Dec 2025 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Bagnoli, Lisa Serena;Balza, Lenin;Belmar, José;Matías, David
Changing weather patterns pose a fundamental challenge to electricity systems reliant on water resources. Using two decades of plant-level generation and fuel input data matched to hydrological…
Beyond the Mean: Non-Linear Effects of Air Pollution on Health Outcomes
Dec 2025 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Hoffmann, Bridget;Suárez, Nicolás;Rud, Juan Pablo
This paper uses high-frequency data on fine particulate matter air pollution (PM 2.5) to study the effects of high pollution on health outcomes in Mexico City. We combine hourly monitoring station…
Generative AI in Education: A Framework for Leveraging Digital Tools in Latin American Classrooms
Dec 2025
Author(s): Levy Yeyati, Eduardo;Robano, Virginia;Pereiro, Emiliano;Porto, Camila;Koleszar, Víctor
Generative AI (GenAI) is entering classrooms with both promise and uncertainty. This paper develops a framework that organizes instructional uses of GenAI into four functions: content preparation,…
Research Insights: How Can Digital Payments Drive Financial Inclusion in Latin America and the Caribbean?
Dec 2025
Author(s): Vlaicu, Razvan
Between 2021 and 2024, the share of consumers in Latin America and the Caribbean using digital wallets rose from 2% to 10% for receiving wages, and from 7% to 18% for making purchases. Consumers with…
Scaling Teacher Support: Piloting ”Profe Gabi,” an AI-powered Mentoring Chatbot for Novice Teachers in Chile
Dec 2025 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Elacqua, Gregory;Hermosilla, Catalina;Kutscher, Macarena;Del Toro Mijares, Ana Teresa
Human-intensive programs like teacher mentoring face a fundamental scaling problem: evidence shows their impact declines as they expand, and the personalized support that makes them effective becomes…
The Right to Belong: Migrant Regularization in Latin America and the Caribbean
Dec 2025 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank
Over the past decade, Latin America and the Caribbean have experienced a sharp rise in intraregional migration, accompanied by widespread situations of migrants residing without regular status. In…
Manual for the Evaluation of Costs and Benefits of Cooperative Compliance Programs
Dec 2025
Author(s): Owens, Jeffrey;Piakarskaya, Anastasiya;Yarygina, Anastasiya;Barcarolo, Luciana;Bauer, Christian;Velasco Berrezueta, Luis Antonio;Kołodziej, Sabina;Piiskoppel, Kirsti;Sesma Moreno, Jaime
The Manual for the Evaluation of Costs and Benefits of Cooperative Compliance Programs provides a comprehensive methodology for assessing the performance and value of cooperative compliance programs…
Financial Technologies, Labor Markets, and Wage Inequality: Evidence from Instant Payment Systems
Dec 2025 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Burga, Carlos;Cespedes, Jacelly;Parra, Carlos R;Ricca, Bernardo
A long-standing debate concerns whether technological change widens wage gaps by benefiting skilled labor. We show that financial technologiesspecifically, instant payment systemscan instead reduce…
Hearing Loss and Deafness in School Age Children in LAC
Dec 2025
Author(s): Näslund-Hadley, Emma;Peçanha de Miranda Coelho, Jorge Artur;Guimarães Almeida, Beatriz;Della Nina Gambi, Gabriela
The document series “Life Skills”, titled “The Hidden Numbers,” provides clear, data-driven snapshots of the prevalence of different disabilities and disorders among school-age children in Latin…
Sustainable solutions: Learning from rural and indigenous water and sanitation practices in Latin America and the Caribbean
Dec 2025
Author(s): Neftenov, Nikola;Collins, Lisa
This publication explores how Indigenous and rural communities across Latin America and the Caribbean are redefining water and sanitation management through ancestral knowledge, collective governance…
Lights Out: Measuring the Economic Effect of Natural Disasters in Andean Countries
Dec 2025
Author(s): Alzamora, Miguel;Ballesteros Quiroga, Henry Alexander;Cárdenas, Daniel;Chávez, Augusto;Díaz, Emily;Giles Álvarez, Laura;Larrahondo, Cristhian;León, Sany;Serrudo, Luis Fernando;Toapanta, Xavier;Valdivia, Daniela
This study analyzes the impact of natural disasters on subnational economic activity in the Andean Regions countries (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru). The main purpose of this analysis is to…