Dec 2025
Generative AI enabled
Generative AI enabled
Instant payment systems have rapidly gained global traction by enhancing transaction efficiency, yet evidence remains limited on how their designparticularly interoperabilityshapes market structure.…
Dec 2025
Generative AI enabled
Generative AI enabled
Unsustainable water consumption practices are a growing concern, especially as climate change threatens global water resources. Immediate action is needed to promote conservation and ensure long-term…
Dec 2025
This technical note seeks to compile the main results to serve as a valuable resource for policymakers, practitioners, and researchers interested in advancing natural capital initiatives in the…
Dec 2025
Micro-credentials have the potential to expand access to post-secondary education by offering students more flexible and cost-effective alternatives to traditional higher-education pathways. They can…
Dec 2025
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has played a pivotal role in advancing climate finance across Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), with Barbados emerging as a flagship case of innovation…
Dec 2025
The rapid transformation of labor markets in Latin America, driven by digitalization and productive transition, calls for innovative tools to anticipate and manage skills demand. This technical note…
Dec 2025
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Generative AI enabled
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…
Dec 2025
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…
Dec 2025
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…
Dec 2025
Generative AI enabled
Generative AI enabled
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…
Dec 2025
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…
Dec 2025
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Generative AI enabled
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…
Dec 2025
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…
Dec 2025
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…
Dec 2025
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…
Dec 2025
Generative AI enabled
Generative AI enabled
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…
Dec 2025
Generative AI enabled
Generative AI enabled
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…
Dec 2025
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,…
Dec 2025
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…
Dec 2025
Generative AI enabled
Generative AI enabled
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…