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Aug 2020
Hurricane Matthew in October 2016 marks the second time in just over a year that the country was affected by a Category 4 hurricane. Hurricane Matthew's greatest impact was felt on the country…
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Aug 2020
La penetración de los servicios de banda ancha, tanto fija como móvil, en República Dominicana está muy por debajo de la media de los países de la región. Sin embargo, esta baja penetración de los…
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Aug 2020
This Technical Note describes the process of designing a behavioral intervention to help reduce the prevalence of anemia in children in El Salvador. It first describes a traditional micronutrient…
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Aug 2020
Evidence suggests that violence against women is likely to increase in Latin America and the Caribbean as a result of the COVID-19 crisis and the implementation of social distancing measures such as…
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Aug 2020
La evidencia sugiere que es probable que la violencia contra las mujeres aumente en América Latina y el Caribe como resultado de la crisis de COVID-19 y las consecuentes medidas preventivas de…
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Aug 2020
Alcanzar el Objetivo de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) 6, “Asegurar la disponibilidad y la gestión sostenible del agua y el saneamiento para todos”, requiere de un cambio de paradigma de manejo de…
Date issued:
Aug 2020
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The Venezuelan migration to Peru has been growing at fast speed since 2016 reaching a peak in 2018. Using a panel that allows us to control for individual effects, we study the heterogeneous short-…
Date issued:
Aug 2020
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Popular empirical strategies that examine the labor impacts of migrants, like the skill-cell approach, are frequently used to measure the effects of immigrants from a particular skill group on native…
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Aug 2020
This paper evaluates the impact of irrigation improvement works to benefit indigenous communities in the highlands of Ecuador, largely dependent on agriculture for their livelihoods. The findings…
Date issued:
Aug 2020
Hurricane Dorian is not an isolated occurrence, but the latest example of recurrent extreme climate events that have changed the Bahamian landscape and impacted its economy. The increase in water…