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Date issued: Μαρ 2015 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Gingerich, Daniel;Oliveros, Virginia;Corbacho, Ana;Ruiz-Vega, Mauricio

An influential body of scholarship argues that corruption behaves as a selffulfilling prophecy. The idea of this work is that levels of corruption emerge endogenously as a result of a society-wide…

Date issued: Μαρ 2015
Author(s): Ezquiaga Arquitectura, Sociedad y Territorio S.L.

The developing region that has experienced one of the greatest urban growth in the world is Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). More than 80% of its population currently lives in cities and this…

Date issued: Μαρ 2015
Author(s): Ludeña, Carlos E.;Ryfisch, David

Este documento identifica áreas de acción prioritarias en las áreas de adaptación y mitigación al cambio climático en Chile. Este análisis se realiza en base a indicadores claves sectoriales, así…

Date issued: Μαρ 2015
Author(s): Ludeña, Carlos E.;Ryfisch, David

Este documento identifica áreas de acción prioritarias en las áreas de adaptación y mitigación al cambio climático en Uruguay. Este análisis se realiza en base a indicadores claves sectoriales, así…

Date issued: Μαρ 2015
Author(s): Pérez, Avril;Reyes, Angela;Vivanco, Fermín

Los contenidos aquí presentados fueron extraídos del coloquio titulado “Herramientas Efectivas para el Ahorro Inclusivo”, organizado por el Programa ProAhorros del Fondo Multilateral de Inversiones…

Date issued: Μαρ 2015
Author(s): Teeple, Jim;Deibert, Michael;Helleranta, Meri;Antón Díaz, Pablo;Azevedo, Viviane;Lalime, Thomas;Santelices, Cristian;Sipp, Caroline

This publication takes stock of the efforts Haiti is making to transform several key sectors. Some are fundamental for economic growth; others are essential for improving its people's living…

Date issued: Μαρ 2015
Author(s): Teeple, Jim;Deibert, Michael;Helleranta, Meri;Antón Díaz, Pablo;Azevedo, Viviane;Lalime, Thomas;Santelices, Cristian;Sipp, Caroline

Cette publication présente les efforts déployés par Haiti pour transformer plusieurs secteurs clés. Certains sont fondamentaux pour la croissance économique, d'autres sont essentiels pour…

Date issued: Φεβ 2015
Author(s): Casas-Alatriste, José Antonio;Espinasa, Ramón

This study results from a need to have more precise knowledge of the recently approved Energy Reform, and its secondary laws and regulations. It identifies opportunities that may arise for…

Date issued: Φεβ 2015
Author(s): Casas-Alatriste, José Antonio;Espinasa, Ramón

El presente estudio resulta de la necesidad de conocer con mayor precisión la recién aprobada Reforma Energética, sus leyes secundarias y reglamentos. Identifica las oportunidades que se puedan…

Date issued: Φεβ 2015
Author(s): International Youth Foundation

The "Connecting employment training with labor market demand and opportunities" guide is a publication that makes available to education and employment training entities a series of…

Date issued: Φεβ 2015
Author(s): International Youth Foundation

La guía “Conectando la formación para el empleo con las demandas y oportunidades del mercado laboral” es una publicación que pone al alcance de las entidades de educación y formación para el empleo,…

Date issued: Φεβ 2015
Author(s): International Youth Foundation

O guia "Vinculando a formação para o emprego às demandas e oportunidades do mercado de trabalho" é uma publicação que apresenta uma série de recursos teóricos e metodológicos a entidades de…

Date issued: Φεβ 2015 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Streb, Jorge M.;Torrens, Gustavo

This paper develops a semiotic-inferential model of verbal communication for incomplete information games: a language is seen as a set of conventional signs that point to types, and the credibility…

Date issued: Φεβ 2015
Author(s): Brambilla, Irene;Tortarolo, Dario

The objective of this paper is to characterize the evolution of labor earnings in Latin America during the 2000s, a decade of markedly poverty reduction. Based on household surveys for six countries…

Date issued: Φεβ 2015
Author(s): Gonzalez Diez, Verónica M.;Azuara, Oliver;Corrales, Maria Elena;Guerrero, Alejandro;Quintanilla, Oscar;Maciel, Odette;Molina Garsón, Adriana Lizette

This document describes the scope and methodology for the Bank's CountryProgram Evaluation (CPE) with the Government of Bolivia for the 2011-2015
period. The evaluation methodology will…

Date issued: Φεβ 2015
Author(s): Gonzalez Diez, Verónica M.;Azuara, Oliver;Corrales, Maria Elena;Guerrero, Alejandro;Quintanilla, Oscar;Maciel, Odette;Molina Garsón, Adriana Lizette

Este documento define el alcance y la metodología para la Evaluación del Programa de País (CPE, por sus siglas en inglés) del BID con el Gobierno de Bolivia para el periodo 2011-2015. La metodología…

Date issued: Φεβ 2015
Author(s): Chisari, Omar O.;Miller, Sebastián J.

This paper constructs a small CGE model to study the impact of carbon taxes on GDP and emissions under alternative closure rules and hypotheses (about mobility of factors, availability of alternative…

Date issued: Φεβ 2015
Author(s): Ríos Flores, Ramiro Alberto;Taddia, Alejandro Pablo;Pardo, CarlosFelipe;Lleras, Natalia

«Ciclo-inclusión en América Latina y el Caribe: guía para impulsar el uso de la bicicleta» es un documento de referencia para los tomadores de decisiones y técnicos que necesiten lineamentos y…

Date issued: Φεβ 2015 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Fernández Martín, Andrés;Klein, Michael W.;Rebucci, Alessandro;Schindler, Martin;Uribe, Martin

This paper presents and describes a new dataset of capital control restrictions on both inflows and outflows of 10 categories of assets for 100 countries over the period 1995 to 2013. Building on…

Date issued: Φεβ 2015 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Granda, Catalina;Hamann, Franz

The informal sector is an extensive phenomenon in developing countries. While some of its implications have drawn considerable attention in the literature, one relatively unexplored aspect has to…

Date issued: Φεβ 2015
Author(s): Avellán, Leopoldo;Vuletin, Guillermo

Government spending in the developing world has historically been procyclical. Traditional explanations for this have mostly revolved around the explicit or implicit notion that fiscal procyclicality…

Date issued: Φεβ 2015
Author(s): Caratori, Luciano;Carlino, Hernán;Gutman, Verónica;Levy, Alberto;Magnasco, Eugenia

Los PAH (pequeños aprovechamientos hidroeléctricos) han sido concebidos en Argentina como parte de la estrategia de respuesta al cambio climático en el marco del instrumento establecido por la…

Date issued: Φεβ 2015 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Mojica, Carlos;Ureña, Nayel;Fernández Belmonte, Diego;García Puente, Cesar;Calvo Caretón, Loreto;García De Miguel, Alicia

The main purpose of this report is to show the current state of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) implementation in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). The report provides an overview of the…

Date issued: Φεβ 2015
Author(s): Vegas, Emiliana

Analizamos las decrecientes correlaciones entre el gasto en educación y los resultados del aprendizaje para abordar dos preguntas fundamentales: ¿Los sistemas educativos con diferentes niveles de…

Date issued: Φεβ 2015 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Del Boca, Daniela

This paper discusses several approaches to examining the relationship between child care and mothers' labor supply. The focus is on child care for children aged 0-3, because this is a critical…