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Debt Erosion: Asymmetric Response to Demand and Supply Shocks
Debt Erosion: Asymmetric Response to Demand and Supply Shocks

Date issued: Jul 2023 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Valencia, Oscar;Gamboa-Arbeláez, Juliana;Sánchez, Gustavo

This paper explores the effect of inflation supply and demand shocks on government debt. It identifies the shocks using a sign-restricted Structural Vector Autoregression (SVAR) model with quarterly…
Can a Pay-for- Performance Program Help the Vulnerable find Jobs during a Pandemic?: Experimental Evidence from Empleate in Colombia
Can a Pay-for- Performance Program Help the Vulnerable find Jobs during a Pandemic?: Experimental Evidence from Empleate in Colombia

Date issued: Jul 2023 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Gómez, Maria Fernanda;González-Velosa, Carolina

During a period of COVID-19-induced job losses and mobility restrictions, the government of Colombia's launched Empléate, an innovative Pay-for-performance (P4P) program that targeted…
A Personalized VAT with Capital Transfers: A Reform to Protect Low-Income Households in Mexico
A Personalized VAT with Capital Transfers: A Reform to Protect Low-Income Households in Mexico

Date issued: Jul 2023 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Kotlikoff, Laurence J.;Lagarda, Guillermo;Marin, Gabriel

The Value-Added Tax (VAT) is the most prevalent consumption tax globally, yet it is frequently deemed highly regressive. To address this, we propose a Personalized VAT (PVAT) devised in conjunction…
Automatic Product Classification in International Trade: Machine Learning and Large Language Models
Automatic Product Classification in International Trade: Machine Learning and Large Language Models

Date issued: Jul 2023 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Marra de Artiñano, Ignacio;Riottini Depetris, Franco;Volpe Martincus, Christian

Accurately classifying products is essential in international trade. Virtually all countries categorize products into tariff lines using the Harmonized System (HS) nomenclature for both statistical…
Costa Rica's Unified Digital Health Record (EDUS) System: Best Practices, History, and Implementation
Costa Rica's Unified Digital Health Record (EDUS) System: Best Practices, History, and Implementation

Date issued: Jul 2023
Author(s): Ochoa Chaves, Luisa;Jiménez Alvarado, Oscar Mario;Martínez de Lemos, Fernando

The Unified Digital Health Record (EDUS) project is an initiative that Costa Rica launched in 2010 to organize in a single digitalized file the medical and social security information of people…
Expediente digital único en salud (EDUS) de Costa Rica: buenas prácticas, historia e implementación
Expediente digital único en salud (EDUS) de Costa Rica: buenas prácticas, historia e implementación

Date issued: Jul 2023
Author(s): Ochoa Chaves, Luisa;Jiménez Alvarado, Oscar Mario;Martínez de Lemos, Fernando

El proyecto de Expediente Digital Único en Salud (EDUS) es una iniciativa que Costa Rica impulsó en 2010 para organizar en un sólo archivo digitalizado la información médica y de la seguridad social…
Eye Bond Overview: Education, Youth, Employment
Eye Bond Overview: Education, Youth, Employment

Date issued: Jul 2023
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

The 2023 EYE Bond Report discusses the pressing challenges of poverty and inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean and emphasizes the need for a comprehensive and well-planned approach to…
Measuring Labor Market Discrimination against LGTBQ+ in the Case of Ecuador: A Field Experiment
Measuring Labor Market Discrimination against LGTBQ+ in the Case of Ecuador: A Field Experiment

Date issued: Jul 2023 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Hernández, Hugo;Quiroz, Gabriel;Zambrano, Omar;Zanoni, Wladimir

This paper presents the findings of an artifactual field experiment conducted in urban Ecuador to investigate discrimination against LGBTQ (here restricted to individuals self-identified as gay or…
Evaluación integral del piloto de reinserción económica y emprendimiento para mujeres en conflicto con la ley en Chile
Evaluación integral del piloto de reinserción económica y emprendimiento para mujeres en conflicto con la ley en Chile

Date issued: Jul 2023 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Sánchez Cea, Mauricio;Piñol, Diego;Salas, Rodrigo;González, Adolfo;Mohor, Alejandra;Tapia, Paola

Los sistemas penitenciarios y los programas de rehabilitación y reinserción, tanto en América Latina y el Caribe (ALC) en general como en Chile en particular, han sido abordados con un enfoque…
Guía para intercambios de conocimiento
Guía para intercambios de conocimiento

Date issued: Jul 2023
Author(s): García Ferro, Luz Ángela;Zepeda, David;Larrota Rojas, Dan Esteban

En la era de la información y la rápida evolución tecnológica, el intercambio de conocimiento se ha convertido en un elemento crucial para el éxito y la innovación en las organizaciones. Diversas…