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Date issued: Mar 2025
Author(s): Mecanismo Independente de Consulta e Investigação

Em 2024, o MICI gerenciou 31 reclamações de 11 países da América Latina e do Caribe relacionadas a projetos financiados pelo BID, BID Invest e BID Lab. A resolução de disputas facilitada pelo MICI…

Date issued: Mar 2025
Author(s): Mécanisme Indépendant de Consultation et d’Investigation

En 2024, le MICI a traité 31 plaintes émanant de 11 pays d'Amérique latine et des Caraïbes et liées à des projets financés par la BID, BID Invest et BID Lab. Le règlement des différends facilité…

Date issued: Mar 2025
Author(s): Bergues, Martina;Lafuente, Mariano

O avanço da digitalização dos serviços públicos no Brasil torna necessário aprofundar o conhecimento sobre como diferentes grupos populacionais interagem com esses serviços. Em um país com grandes…

Date issued: Mar 2025
Author(s): Suaya, Agustina;Martinez, Karen;Bustelo, Monserrat;Martínez, Claudia

Violence against women (VAW) is a persistent and deeply rooted issue that requires urgent policy action. Despite increasing global attention, significant knowledge gaps remain regarding effective…

Date issued: Mar 2025
Author(s): Suaya, Agustina;Martinez, Karen;Bustelo, Monserrat;Martínez, Claudia

La violencia contra las mujeres (VCM) es un problema persistente y profundamente arraigado que exige una respuesta urgente en materia de políticas públicas. A pesar de la creciente atención global,…

Date issued: Mar 2025
Author(s): Peña, Norma;Wolfenzon, Denisse;Pérez Gallego, Carlos Andrés;Borda Montenegro, Angie;Osorto Velásquez, Sindy Sirey;Piedra Vázquez, Paúl Andrés

La trata de personas es un delito y una grave violación de los derechos humanos que afecta a millones de niños, niñas, mujeres y hombres en todo el mundo. Este fenómeno, complejo y multicausal,…

Date issued: Mar 2025
Author(s): Peña, Norma;Wolfenzon, Denisse;Pérez Gallego, Carlos Andrés;Borda Montenegro, Angie;Osorto Velásquez, Sindy Sirey;Piedra Vázquez, Paúl Andrés

La trata de personas es un delito y una grave violación de los derechos humanos que afecta a millones de niños, niñas, mujeres y hombres en todo el mundo. Este fenómeno complejo y multicausal explota…

Date issued: Mar 2025
Author(s): Inter American Development Bank;IDB Invest;IDB Lab

The 2024 third quarter edition of the Quarterly Business Review (QBR) provides management with a status of the Bank's performance. The QBR reports on outputs, lending program priorities and…

Date issued: Mar 2025 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Tovar Jalles, João;Pessino, Carola;Calderón, Ana Cristina

Widening income disparities, higher corruption and larger informality in many emerging market and developing economies (EMDE) including Latin America, all with pressing and mounting fiscal problems,…

Date issued: Mar 2025 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Carneiro, Pedro;Cruz-Aguayo, Yyannu;Salvati, Francesca;Schady, Norbert

We study how poorly-behaved children affect learning and other outcomes of their peers using data from a unique experiment in Ecuador. Within each school, students were randomly assigned to…

Date issued: Mar 2025 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Braude, Hernán;Waldman, Joaquin;Rondinone, Gonzalo;De Salvo, Carmine Paolo;Muñoz, Gonzalo

Este estudio presenta una actualización y revisión del análisis de políticas públicas de apoyo al sector agropecuario de El Salvador en 2018-2022. Se emplea la metodología de Estimado de Apoyo al…

Date issued: Mar 2025
Author(s): Martinez Gómez, Cecilia Beatriz;Araujo, María Caridad;Ibarrarán, Pablo;Lupica, Carina;Stampini, Marco;Tomé, Romina

Care is essential work and a fundamental pillar for economic growth and well-being. Everyone will require care at some point in their life. Care includes healthcare, household care, care for…

Date issued: Mar 2025
Author(s): Martinez Gómez, Cecilia Beatriz;Araujo, María Caridad;Ibarrarán, Pablo;Lupica, Carina;Stampini, Marco;Tomé, Romina

El cuidado es una labor esencial y un pilar fundamental para el bienestar y el crecimiento económico. A lo largo de la vida, todas las personas lo requieren. Esto incluye atención médica, trabajo…

Date issued: Mar 2025
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

El propósito de este documento es recopilar historias de éxito en actividades de restauración forestal en bosques públicos, en el marco del Proyecto Manejo Sostenible de Bosques, desarrollado en la…

Date issued: Mar 2025
Author(s): Escobar Rangel, Lina Patricia;Elliot, Patricia

Este documento analiza las inversiones necesarias para que el sistema eléctrico peruano alcance la carbono neutralidad a 2050, a través del contraste de planes de expansión óptimos de generación y…

Date issued: Mar 2025
Author(s): Straub, Stéphane;Serebrisky, Tomás;Bagnoli, Lisa Serena;Rojas, Claudio

Infrastructure services - transport, energy, water and sanitation, and digital infrastructure - are central to the fight against global poverty. Yet, their ability to improve lives hinges on…

Date issued: Mar 2025
Author(s): Queijo Von Heideken, Virginia;Rodríguez Chatruc, Marisol;Sotto Alonso, Belén

The future development of the countries of the Southern Cone - Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay - depends largely on the interventions made today to improve the prospects of young…

Date issued: Mar 2025
Author(s): Perraud, Gaël;Manatta, Zayda;Pineda, Emilio;Arisi, Diego

The availability of beneficial ownership information on legal persons and arrangements (legal entities) is a key requirement of tax transparency and a key instrument in the fight against tax evasion…

Date issued: Mar 2025 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Perez-Reyna, David;Rodríguez Barraquer, Tomás;Tovar, Jorge

In this paper, we analyze the competition in the Colombian banking sector using bank-level monthly balance sheet information. We estimate the changes in measures of market power due to the exogenous…

Date issued: Mar 2025 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Alejos, Luis;Alfonso, Mariana;Alpízar, Francisco;Alvarez, Luis;Balza, Lenin;Bebczuk, Ricardo N.;Blackman, Allen;Blyde, Juan S.;Bos, María Soledad;Cavallo, Eduardo A.;Celis, Carolina;Delgado, Raúl;Dolabella, Marcelo;Calatayud, Agustina;Dueñas, Juliana;Gabrielli, Valentina;Galindo, Arturo;González, Mario;González Jaramillo, María José;Helo Sarmiento, Juliana;Hoffmann, Bridget;Libertun de Duren, Nora Ruth;Meirovich, Hilen;Mesquita Moreira, Mauricio;Pérez Urdiales, María;Rios, Ana R.;Salas, Ariana;Salazar, Lina;Solís, Ben;Serebrisky, Tomás;Vogt-Schilb, Adrien;Watson, Gregory;Yáñez-Pagans, Patricia

Climate change presents both a critical threat and a unique opportunity for progress in Latin America and the Caribbean. This book delves into this dual reality, showing that climate action is…

Date issued: Mar 2025 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Alejos, Luis;Alfonso, Mariana;Alpízar, Francisco;Alvarez, Luis;Balza, Lenin;Bebczuk, Ricardo N.;Blackman, Allen;Blyde, Juan S.;Bos, María Soledad;Cavallo, Eduardo A.;Celis, Carolina;Delgado, Raúl;Dolabella, Marcelo;Calatayud, Agustina;Dueñas, Juliana;Gabrielli, Valentina;Galindo, Arturo;González, Mario;González Jaramillo, María José;Helo Sarmiento, Juliana;Hoffmann, Bridget;Libertun de Duren, Nora Ruth;Meirovich, Hilen;Mesquita Moreira, Mauricio;Pérez Urdiales, María;Rios, Ana R.;Salas, Ariana;Salazar, Lina;Solís, Ben;Serebrisky, Tomás;Vogt-Schilb, Adrien;Watson, Gregory;Yáñez-Pagans, Patricia

El cambio climático representa a la vez una amenaza decisiva y una oportunidad única para el progreso en América Latina y el Caribe. Este libro aborda esta realidad dual, y muestra que la acción…

Date issued: Mar 2025 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Alejos, Luis;Alfonso, Mariana;Alpízar, Francisco;Alvarez, Luis;Balza, Lenin;Bebczuk, Ricardo N.;Blackman, Allen;Blyde, Juan S.;Bos, María Soledad;Cavallo, Eduardo A.;Celis, Carolina;Delgado, Raúl;Dolabella, Marcelo;Calatayud, Agustina;Dueñas, Juliana;Gabrielli, Valentina;Galindo, Arturo;González, Mario;González Jaramillo, María José;Helo Sarmiento, Juliana;Hoffmann, Bridget;Libertun de Duren, Nora Ruth;Meirovich, Hilen;Mesquita Moreira, Mauricio;Pérez Urdiales, María;Rios, Ana R.;Salas, Ariana;Salazar, Lina;Solís, Ben;Serebrisky, Tomás;Vogt-Schilb, Adrien;Watson, Gregory;Yáñez-Pagans, Patricia

As mudanças climáticas representam tanto uma ameaça crítica quanto uma oportunidade única de progresso na América Latina e no Caribe. Este livro se aprofunda nessa dupla realidade, mostrando que a…

Date issued: Feb 2025
Author(s): Giambruno, Cecilia;Castro Vergara, Nicolás;Ortega Ariza, Claudio Paul

En la región amazónica, 1 de cada 3 niños, niñas y adolescentes vive a más de 2,5 km del centro educativo más cercano, lo que implica al menos una hora de caminata diaria. Los análisis muestran…

Date issued: Feb 2025 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Ajzenman, Nicolás;Elacqua, Gregory;Kutscher, Macarena;Méndez, Carolina;Suarez Enciso, Sonia

This paper examines how the act of giving advice to others can serve as a tool for self-persuasion in high-stakes decisions. We tested this hypothesis in Perus nationwide teacher selection process,…

Date issued: Feb 2025
Author(s): Barriga, María Camila

The purpose of this guide is to incorporate a gender perspective in the dispute resolution processes managed by MICI with respect to environmental and social grievances related to development…