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Date issued: Απρ 2024 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Suárez-Alemán, Ancor;Dominguez, Enrique

El desarrollo de infraestructura pública constituye una de las principales responsabilidades que tiene todo Gobierno, toda vez que congrega los fundamentos físicos que proveen acceso a servicios…

Date issued: Απρ 2024
Author(s): Balza, Lenin;Castro Vargas, Sofía;Gómez Parra, Nicolás;Jimenez Mori, Raul Alberto;Manzano, Osmel;Serebrisky, Tomás

We examine the relationship between energy consumption and economic growth in Latin America and the Caribbean using panel data from 1971 to 2019. Employing both parametric and non-parametric methods…

Date issued: Απρ 2024 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Guizzo Altube, Matías;Scartascini, Carlos

As the measurement of public opinion and attitudes toward gender issues has gained increasing attention in gender policy and research, the accurate design, implementation, and analysis of survey data…

Date issued: Απρ 2024 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Rojas Méndez, Ana María;Scartascini, Carlos

Behavioral biases often lead to suboptimal decisions, a vulnerability that extends to policymakers who operate under conditions of fatigue, stress, and time constraints and with significant…

Date issued: Απρ 2024
Author(s): Baptista, Dulce;Sandoval Ayala, Juan Manuel;Noh, Heewan;Novella, Rafael

In the wake of a robust economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021 and 2022, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) now face a less promising growth outlook for 2024, with slowing employment…

Date issued: Απρ 2024
Author(s): Baptista, Dulce;Sandoval Ayala, Juan Manuel;Noh, Heewan;Novella, Rafael

Luego de una sólida recuperación en 2021 y 2022 de la recesión económica causada por la pandemia de COVID-19, América Latina y el Caribe (ALC) enfrenta un escenario de crecimiento menos prometedor…

Date issued: Απρ 2024
Author(s): Eggers Prieto, Carlos;Martin, Lucia;Muñoz, Laucel;Salamanca, Álvaro

Assessing the development of countries relies on poverty rates as a key indicator. However, official poverty rates are derived from household surveys that often have limited frequency, unexpected…

Date issued: Απρ 2024
Author(s): Deza, María Cecilia;Gélvez Rubio, Tatiana Andrea;Gutiérrez Preciado, Diana;Jara, H. Xavier;Rodríguez Guerrero, David Arturo

Persistent gender economic differences have led to an extensive amount of literature devoted to the gender wage gap. However, wages are only one component of income for women and men, and self-…

Date issued: Απρ 2024 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Ardanaz, Martín;Hübscher, Evelyne;Keefer, Philip;Sattler, Thomas

Though governments regularly implement fiscal adjustments to avert crisis, voter attitudes toward competing adjustment strategies are still poorly understood. A conjoint experiment with 8,000 survey…

Date issued: Απρ 2024 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Agarwala, Matthew;Burke, Matt;Doherty-Bigara, Jennifer;Klusak, Patrycja;Mohaddes, Kamiar

Climate change is an existential threat to the world economy, with complex, evolving and nonlinear dynamics that remain a source of great uncertainty. There is a bourgeoning literature on the…