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Date issued: Μάιος 2022
Author(s): Quirós, Daniel;Ulloa, David;Murillo, Catalina;Fernández, Olivia;Chaves, Luis;Porras, Santiago;Campbell Barr, Shirley;León, José Pablo;Schumacher, Camila;Porras, Leonardo;Macaya T., Emilia;Mora, Ana

Los grandes cambios exigen esfuerzos de la imaginación. Costa Rica se plantea grandes desafíos en su Contribución Nacionalmente Determinada presentada en 2020 (NDC 2020), el Plan Nacional de…

Date issued: Μάιος 2022
Author(s): IDB Lab;World Economic Forum

Between the first and second quarters of 2020, e-commerce website traffic from five of the regions major markets increased by over 150%. The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed and pulled tens of thousands…

Date issued: Μάιος 2022
Author(s): BID Lab;Foro Económico Mundial

Entre el primer y el segundo trimestre de 2020, el tráfico de los sitios web de comercio electrónico de cinco de los principales mercados de la región creció más de un 150%. La pandemia de COVID-19…

Date issued: Μάιος 2022 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Acuna, Julio;Balza, Lenin;Gómez Parra, Nicolás

To study the causal impact of oil royalties on human capital, we exploit quasi-experimental variation arising from a law in Ecuador that transfers resources to municipalities regardless of their oil-…

Date issued: Μάιος 2022
Author(s): Manzano, Osmel;Saboin, José Luis

This paper provides evidence of a positive effect of institutions and reforms in initiating investment booms. We constructed an unbalanced panel of 178 countries for the period 19502019 that…

Date issued: Μάιος 2022
Author(s): Murguia, Juan M.;Ordoñez, Pablo;Corral, Leonardo;Navarrete-Chacón, Gilmar

Several countries have implemented payment-for-ecosystem-services (PES) programs, buoyed by the promise of these programs as a win-win strategy that would allow both the conservation of natural…

Date issued: Μάιος 2022
Author(s): Navia Díaz, María del Rosario;Aguilera, Julio Cesar;Bohórquez, Juan Fernando

Esta publicación incluye los principales resultados de la evaluación del desempeño de 32 empresas prestadoras de los servicios de acueducto y alcantarillado en Colombia, con base en la aplicación del…

Date issued: Μάιος 2022
Author(s): Aranco, Natalia;Ibarrarán, Pablo;Stampini, Marco

The rapid aging of the population will cause a sharp increase in the demand for dependency care services in Latin America and the Caribbean. In order to inform policy-making, in this study we present…

Date issued: Μάιος 2022
Author(s): Aranco, Natalia;Ibarrarán, Pablo;Stampini, Marco

El rápido envejecimiento de la población provocará un fuerte aumento de la demanda de servicios de atención a la dependencia en América Latina y el Caribe. Con el fin de informar la elaboración de…

Date issued: Μάιος 2022
Author(s): Hernández, Juan;Santaella, Juan;Wills, Daniel

The COVID-19 pandemic produced a shock to public finances throughout the world. In the case of Colombia, the public debt to GDP ratio increased from 39.8% to 65.0%. We use a two-country neoclassical…