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Date issued: Aug 2025 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Gonzalez Saldarriaga, Sebastián;Garcia Sanchez, Vanesa ;Duran-Fernandez, Roberto

Este estudio propone una Estrategia de Desarrollo Productivo para las regiones de frontera de la Amazonía, un territorio estratégico para América Latina y el Caribe por su valor ambiental, cultural y…

Date issued: Aug 2025 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Ciaschi, Matias;Falcone, Guillermo;Garganta, Santiago;Gasparini, Leonardo;Bertín, Octavio;Ramírez-Leira, Lucía

This paper investigates the potential distributional consequences of artificial intelligence (AI) adoption in Latin American labor markets. Using harmonized household survey data from 14 countries,…

Date issued: Aug 2025
Author(s): Aristizábal-Ramírez, María;Santos, Cezar;Torres, Alejandra

This paper examines labor markets across Latin American countries and documents large differences in labor market outcomes across these countries. Using comparable data for eight countries, we show…

Date issued: Aug 2025
Author(s): Barinas-Forero, Andrés Felipe;Scartascini, Carlos

Politicians are more likely to engage in corruption during economic booms than during downturns. Citizens willingness to punish corruption remains stable across economic cycles, but their ability to…

Date issued: Aug 2025
Author(s): Barinas-Forero, Andrés Felipe;Scartascini, Carlos

Los políticos tienen más probabilidades de participar en la corrupción durante los auges económicos que en tiempos de crisis. La disposición de los ciudadanos a castigar la corrupción se mantiene…

Date issued: Aug 2025 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Jara, José Joaquín;Real, Irene del;Guerrero Rojas, Rodrigo;Hennings, Benjamín

Este informe entrega información clave sobre los minerales estratégicos de Chile con enfoque económico, técnico y de relaciones comerciales internacionales para aportar al desarrollo de la Política…

Date issued: Aug 2025 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Eguino, Huáscar;Carranza, Juan Pablo

Esta guía ofrece un enfoque práctico para integrar la valuación inmobiliaria en las finanzas públicas y la planificación de los gobiernos subnacionales. Propone el uso de modelos de valuación y…

Date issued: Aug 2025 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Schling, Maja;Saenz Somarriba, Magaly;De Salvo, Carmine Paolo;Chang Huaita, Rodrigo Ysaac

El presente trabajo evalúa el impacto a largo plazo de la rehabilitación de los canales de riego en el marco del programa PROSAP III de Argentina sobre la productividad de los viñedos en la provincia…

Date issued: Aug 2025 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Schling, Maja;Saenz Somarriba, Magaly;De Salvo, Carmine Paolo;Chang Huaita, Rodrigo Ysaac

This paper evaluates the long-term impact of rehabilitated irrigation canals under Argentinas PROSAP III program on vineyard productivity in San Juan province. We combine 20 years of Landsat-derived…

Date issued: Aug 2025 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Schling, Maja;Saenz Somarriba, Magaly;De Salvo, Carmine Paolo;Barbosa, Daniel;Rossini, Gustavo;Galetto, Alejandro

Este estudio evalúa el impacto de un programa de fondos rotatorios de crédito implementado por la Junta Intercooperativa de Productores de Leche (JIPL) en la producción lechera de Argentina.…

Date issued: Aug 2025
Author(s): Alvear, Alexandra;Avendaño Paez, Ana Milena;Minoja, Livia;Poveda, Rafael;Sosa, Martín;Fuentes, Marco;Villegas, Betty;Parada, Linda;Sánchez, Jimena;Fischel, Eric;Michaud, Gastón;Herrera, Mariana;Román, Diego

Las terminales de transporte desempeñan un papel decisivo para reducir emisiones, mejorar la eficiencia operativa y energética y garantizar la resiliencia y continuidad del servicio frente a eventos…

Date issued: Aug 2025 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Sáenz, Mayra;Stampini, Marco;Aranco, Natalia

We study the effect of care dependence on hospitalizations among older persons in Mexico, analyzing data from the Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS) from 2001 to 2021. We use fixed-effects…

Date issued: Aug 2025
Author(s): Muñoz Fernandez, Cristina;Henriquez, Patricia

On November 2021, when the Environmental and Social Policy Framework entered into effect, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) developed a direct management-level channel for stakeholders to…

Date issued: Aug 2025
Author(s): Muñoz Fernandez, Cristina;Henriquez, Patricia

En noviembre de 2021, cuando entró en vigor el Marco de Política Ambiental y Social, el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID) desarrolló un canal directo a nivel de gestión para que las partes…

Date issued: Aug 2025
Author(s): Perlik, Kerstin;Corona Juárez, Nicolás;Priebe, Jan

Congenital disorders are a principal cause of early mortality, long-term disabilities, impaired cognitive development and constitute a major challenge to families, communities, and health care…

Date issued: Aug 2025
Author(s): Bergamaschi, Andrea;Bos, María Soledad;Minoja, Livia;Pelaez Cruz del Castillo, Eduardo;Schwartz, Liora

En América Latina y el Caribe, educar para la sostenibilidad es clave para enfrentar los retos ambientales. La ciudadanía verde busca formar personas con conocimientos, valores y competencias para…

Date issued: Aug 2025
Author(s): Rojas Méndez, Ana María;Scartascini, Carlos

Policymakers are not immune to behavioral biases that impair decision-making. A large-scale online behavioral economics course significantly improved problem-solving and policy-relevant reasoning…

Date issued: Aug 2025
Author(s): Rojas Méndez, Ana María;Scartascini, Carlos

Los responsables de las políticas no son inmunes a los sesgos comportamentales que dificultan la toma de decisiones. Un curso en línea a gran escala de economía del comportamiento mejoró…

Date issued: Aug 2025
Author(s): Guizzo Altube, Matías;Scartascini, Carlos

Survey responses on gender norms vary significantly depending on whether the interviewer is male or female. Respondents are more likely to endorse traditional or discriminatory gender views when…

Date issued: Aug 2025
Author(s): Guizzo Altube, Matías;Scartascini, Carlos

Las respuestas en las encuestas sobre normas de género varían significativamente dependiendo de si el entrevistador es hombre o mujer. Los encuestados tienen más probabilidades de mostrarse de…

Date issued: Aug 2025
Author(s): De los Santos, Jesús;Muñoz, Gonzalo;Tellez-Lara, Natalia;Rondinone, Gonzalo;De Salvo, Carmine Paolo

Este estudio tiene por objetivo actualizar las estimaciones y el análisis de los apoyos de políticas agropecuarias en Perú para el período 2019-2022, utilizando la metodología de Estimados de Apoyo…

Date issued: Aug 2025 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Näslund-Hadley, Emma;Hernández Agramonte, Juan Manuel;Zoido, Pablo

In this article, we present the impact evaluation of Irûmi, an educational robot-based intervention aimed at developing second-grade students' computational thinking (CT) skills in Paraguay. Our…

Date issued: Aug 2025 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Näslund-Hadley, Emma;Hernández Agramonte, Juan Manuel;Zoido, Pablo

Este artículo presenta una evaluación del impacto de Irûmi, una intervención educativa basada en robots cuyo objetivo es desarrollar las habilidades de pensamiento computacional (PC) de los…

Date issued: Aug 2025
Author(s): Muñoz, Ercio;Jaque, Gabriela

We estimate sibling correlations in schooling (i.e., the fraction of inequality in educational outcomes that can be attributed to factors shared by siblings) for 94 countries, accounting for 85% of…

Date issued: Aug 2025 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Rondinone, Gonzalo;De Salvo, Carmine Paolo;Elverdin, Pablo;Lema, Daniel;Gallacher, Marcos;Jacquet, Bruno

Este estudio presenta un análisis integral de las políticas públicas agropecuarias en Argentina durante el período 2017-2024. El trabajo caracteriza al sector agropecuario argentino, destacando su…

Date issued: Aug 2025 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): African Development Bank;Asian Development Bank;Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank;Council of Europe Development Bank;European Bank for Reconstruction and Development;European Investment Bank;Inter American Development Bank;Islamic Development Bank;New Development Bank;World Bank

The ten multilateral development banks (MDBs) are committed to joint action to improve global water security by 2030. The joint MDB Water Security Financing Report 2024 is the first annual report…

Date issued: Aug 2025
Author(s): Comes, Yamila;Esquivel, María Paula;Ameri, Lucía;Goes Shibata, Leonardo

As populações que residem em comunidades isoladas ou remotas enfrentam grandes desafios no acesso à saúde. A transformação digital tem sido fundamental para melhorar os cuidados em áreas remotas,…

Date issued: Aug 2025
Author(s): Welisiejko, Sebastian;Peláez, Enrique;D'Alesio, Mariela;Menezes Fajardo, Washington

In Latin America and the Caribbean, over 120 million people live in informal neighborhoods. The investment needed to address the housing deficit is around USD 1.4 trillion. This represents about 20%…

Date issued: Aug 2025
Author(s): Welisiejko, Sebastian;Peláez, Enrique;D'Alesio, Mariela;Menezes Fajardo, Washington

En América Latina y el Caribe, más de 120 millones de personas viven en asentamientos informales. La inversión necesaria para abordar el déficit de vivienda ronda los 1,4 billones de dólares. Esto…

Date issued: Aug 2025
Author(s): Díaz, Lina M.;Martínez Villarreal, Déborah;Márquez, Karina;Scartascini, Carlos

A large-scale SMS-based campaign in Cali, Colombia, featuring tailored messages addressing key behavioral barriers, increased HPV vaccine uptake by 34% to 55%. Increasing confidence in the vaccine…

Date issued: Aug 2025
Author(s): Díaz, Lina M.;Martínez Villarreal, Déborah;Márquez, Karina;Scartascini, Carlos

Una campaña masiva de SMS con mensajes personalizados que abordaban las principales barreras conductuales aumentó la vacunación contra el VPH entre un 34% y un 55% en Cali, Colombia. Fortalecer la…

Date issued: Aug 2025
Author(s): Calijuri, Mónica;Yarygina, Anastasiya;Mac Dowell, Maria Cristina;Ferreira, Soraya Naffah;Cordeiro, André;Araújo, Luis Felipe De Oliveira Silva

A digitalização está transformando as administrações tributárias (ATs), tornando-as mais ágeis, eficazes e orientadas por dados. Este estudo, conduzido pelo Banco Interamericano de Desenvolvimento (…

Date issued: Aug 2025
Author(s): Sutton, Heather;Alvarado, Nathalie;Keefer, Philip

This document outlines the methodology and questionnaire used in the IDB Survey on the Administration and Management of Police in Latin America and the Caribbean (SAMP-LAC), a pioneering tool for…

Date issued: Aug 2025
Author(s): Sutton, Heather;Alvarado, Nathalie;Keefer, Philip

Este documento describe la metodología y el cuestionario utilizados en la Encuesta sobre Gestión y Administración Policial en América Latina y el Caribe (EGAP-LAC) del BID, una herramienta pionera…

Date issued: Aug 2025
Author(s): Buttazzoni, Marco;Calijuri, Mónica;Guzmán, Julio

Las administraciones públicas operan en edificios, utilizan vehículos, generan residuos, realizan viajes de trabajo y consumen papel y otros materiales. Estas actividades implican emisiones de gases…

Date issued: Aug 2025
Author(s): López Gross, Juan Pablo;Carrasco, Carolina;Catan, Gabriel;Roche, José Manuel;Vargas Lavado, Mireya;Delfino de Cisneros, Silvana;Martínez, María Fernanda;González, María Elena;Alvarado, Andrés;Torrejón, Pablo;Quezada, Alonso

Esta publicación forma parte de una serie que busca visibilizar la situación de bienestar y salud mental de las personas emprendedoras de alto impacto (EAI) en América Latina y el Caribe (ALC). Aquí…

Date issued: Aug 2025
Author(s): Santos, Cezar;Martinez, Tomás R.

Market power among firms is a common feature in many economies, including in developing countries where a significant share of firms operate informally. This paper examines the interaction between…

Date issued: Aug 2025
Author(s): Inter American Development Bank

This publication compiles the experiences and lessons learned from the Early Childhood Development Innovation Fund (ECD Fund), an alliance between the IDB and several donors (Fundación FEMSA, Van…

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

Esta publicación recopila las experiencias y lecciones aprendidas del Fondo de Innovación para el Desarrollo Infantil Temprano (Fondo DIT), una alianza entre el BID y varios donantes (Fundación FEMSA…

Date issued: Aug 2025
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desenvolvimento

Esta publicação compila as experiências e lições aprendidas do Fundo de Inovação para o Desenvolvimento da Primeira Infância (Fundo DIT), uma aliança entre o BID e vários doadores (Fundação FEMSA,…

Date issued: Aug 2025
Author(s): Jordán, Felipe;Jaimovich, Dany;Heilmayr, Robert

Many countries in the Americas impose restrictions on Indigenous land transactions to preserve Indigenous ownership, but these policies may inhibit economic growth. This paper evaluates the impact of…

Date issued: Aug 2025
Author(s): Hurwitz, Zachary;Gischler, Christiaan;Urquizo, Matilde;Verdugo, David;Castel, Francisco;Remesal, Juan;Sastoque, Carolina

Este documento busca fortalecer la capacidad de los prestatarios del BID en la gestión de riesgos industriales y de salud y seguridad ocupacional y comunitaria en hidrógeno limpio y de bajas…

Date issued: Aug 2025
Author(s): Manzano, Osmel;Maldonado, Leonardo

The Andean countries are traditionally highly exposed to inter- national prices, primary exports, and foreign investment flows from developed economies. Since 2014, the global downturn has affected…

Date issued: Aug 2025
Author(s): Contreras, Dante;Galindo, Arturo;Lepe, Ignacio

This paper examines the short- and long-term effects of education expenditure on economic growth using a global panel of 107 countries from 1970 to 2019. Employing a CS-ARDL model with an error…

Date issued: Aug 2025
Author(s): Marotta, Luana;Pérez Alfaro, Marcelo;Eusebio, Javier;Elacqua, Gregory;Ramos, Magali

Ensuring efficient distribution of educational personnel is key to improving the quality and equity of the education system. This technical note presents a conceptual framework for implementing an…

Date issued: Aug 2025
Author(s): Marotta, Luana;Pérez Alfaro, Marcelo;Eusebio, Javier;Elacqua, Gregory;Ramos, Magali

Garantizar una distribución eficiente del personal educativo es clave para mejorar la calidad y equidad del sistema educativo. Esta nota técnica presenta un marco conceptual para la implementación de…

Date issued: Aug 2025
Author(s): Marotta, Luana;Pérez Alfaro, Marcelo;Eusebio, Javier;Elacqua, Gregory;Ramos, Magali

Garantir uma distribuição eficiente do pessoal educativo é fundamental para melhorar a qualidade e equidade do sistema educativo. Esta nota técnica apresenta um marco conceitual para a implementação…

Date issued: Aug 2025
Author(s): Gamberini, Carla;Della Nina Gambi, Gabriela;Vinacur, Tamara

This publication analyzes Extended School Day (ESD) policies, assessing their relevance in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), as well as their implementation in various international contexts.…

Date issued: Aug 2025
Author(s): Gamberini, Carla;Della Nina Gambi, Gabriela;Vinacur, Tamara

Esta publicación analiza las políticas de Jornada Escolar Extendida (JEE), evaluando su relevancia en América Latina y el Caribe (ALC), así como su implementación en diversos contextos…

Date issued: Aug 2025
Author(s): Affordable Housing Institute;Guerrero, Jorge;Cervantes Bautista, Juan José;Torcida Amero, Luis Ignacio Joaquín;Ruiz Hernández, Felipe de Jesús;Jácome Polit, David

La Nota Técnica Sectorial de la Vivienda de Ecuador elaborada por el BID con los actores relevantes de la vivienda a través del análisis de la cadena de valor tiene como objetivo sentar las bases…