May 2025
This study delves into the growing trend of hiring temporary teachers in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), driven by the need for education systems to find more cost-effective and flexible…
May 2025
This paper studies concentration and market power in Chile and Colombia and the role that globalization and automation have had in shaping these two phenomena. Using panels of firm surveys, we…
May 2025
This paper explores how female political leaders impact environmental outcomes and climate change policy actions using data from mixed-gender mayoral races in Brazil. We rely on a Regression…
May 2025
We adapted a violence-prevention, parenting program (the Irie Homes Toolbox, or IHT) for integration into Jamaican preschool services. The adapted IHT was evaluated in a mixed-method feasibility…
May 2025
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) has become a powerful and effective tool to deal with violence in many at-risk areas in the world. However, its use for gender-based violence (GBV) and dating…
May 2025
Over the past decades, Latin America and the Caribbean have experienced a significant increase in natural disasters, posing significant threats to infrastructure and economic activity, particularly…
May 2025
The Infrascope index is a benchmarking tool that evaluates the capacity of countries to implement sustainable, impact-driven and efficient public-private partnerships (PPPs) in key infrastructure…
Apr 2025
We examine hedging as a macroprudential tool in a Sudden Stops model of an economy exposed to commodity price fluctuations. We find that hedging commodity revenues yields significant welfare gains by…
Apr 2025
I provide estimates of intergenerational mobility (IGM) in education at a disaggregated geographic level for Chile, a country with high school-level stratification by socioeconomic status and a…
Apr 2025
Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is a privileged region in terms of water, accounting for 30 percent of the worlds freshwater resources (The World Bank, 2013). Water plays a pivotal role in the…
Apr 2025
This paper examines the fiscal and extra-fiscal effects of decentralizing the collection of Brazil's rural land tax from the federal level to local governments. Using a difference-in-differences…
Apr 2025
For decades, technology has been promoted as a solution to educational challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean, with early enthusiasm suggesting that digital tools could revolutionize access…
Apr 2025
The Sixth Bahamas Conference on Financial Crime, co-hosted by the Central Bank of The Bahamas and the Inter-American Development Bank in January 2025, brought together over 390 participants, both in-…
Apr 2025
In this Technical Note, we document the unique experience of the state of Pernambuco in restructuring its School Management Training Program (Progepe), adopting the Certificate in Education Finance (…
Apr 2025
This research deck aims to map the landscape of tokenization for development, highlight its impact, and propose a way forward by:
- Providing an overview of the current state of tokenization,…
- Providing an overview of the current state of tokenization,…
Apr 2025
We explore the implications of heterogeneous, history-dependent inflation expectations in a general equilibrium setting. We propose an experience-based expectations-augmented Kalman filter to…
Apr 2025
This publication is an update of the technical note on Meaningful Consultation, which described principles and content that should be present for a consultation process to be considered meaningful.…
Apr 2025
Trade flows are the result of the interaction between buyers and sellers. Understanding how these firm-to-firm relationships form, survive, and evolve over time helps identify how countries can…
Apr 2025
This paper examines the impact of safeguard import tariffs on market diversity in Ecuador from 2015 to 2017. Using firm-level data, we estimate the effects of tariffs on revenue and market shares in…
Apr 2025
We propose a novel mechanism to explain the incomplete pass-through of exchange rates to exporter prices and quantities, based on the relationship between exporters' dynamic pricing strategies…