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Trade Trends Estimates: Latin America and the Caribbean. 2025 Edition
Trade Trends Estimates: Latin America and the Caribbean. 2025 Edition

Date issued: Jan 2025
Author(s): Giordano, Paolo;Michalczewsky, Kathia

This report provides estimates of Latin America and the Caribbeans international trade flows for 2024. It was prepared by the Productivity, Trade, and Innovation Sector (PTI) at the Inter-American…
Estimaciones de las tendencias comerciales: América Latina y el Caribe. Edición 2025
Estimaciones de las tendencias comerciales: América Latina y el Caribe. Edición 2025

Date issued: Jan 2025
Author(s): Giordano, Paolo;Michalczewsky, Kathia

Esta nota presenta las estimaciones de los flujos comerciales internacionales de América Latina para el año 2024. Las cifras fueron elaboradas por el Sector de Productividad, Comercio e Innovación (…
Impact of Monetary Incentives on Teacher Decisions to Leave and Choose Schools: Evidence from a Policy Reform in São Paulo
Impact of Monetary Incentives on Teacher Decisions to Leave and Choose Schools: Evidence from a Policy Reform in São Paulo

Date issued: Jan 2025 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Elacqua, Gregory;Rodrigues, Mateus;Rosa, Leonardo

Teacher turnover is a major challenge for human resource management in schools, adversely affecting student learning. We examine the impact of a monetary incentive program introduced in 2022 in the…
Impacto dos incentivos monetários nas decisões dos professores de deixar e escolher escolas: evidências de uma reforma política em São Paulo
Impacto dos incentivos monetários nas decisões dos professores de deixar e escolher escolas: evidências de uma reforma política em São Paulo

Date issued: Jan 2025 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Elacqua, Gregory;Rodrigues, Mateus;Rosa, Leonardo

Este estudo examina o impacto de um programa de incentivo monetário introduzido em 2022 na cidade de São Paulo, cujo objetivo é reduzir a rotatividade de professores por meio da alocação de…
Perspectivas sobre transformación digital, fintech e inclusión financiera: América Latina y el Caribe
Perspectivas sobre transformación digital, fintech e inclusión financiera: América Latina y el Caribe

Date issued: Jan 2025
Author(s): Navarro, Daniel;Suárez, Flor;Navajas, Sergio

Este estudio analiza cómo las instituciones financieras de inclusión en América Latina y el Caribe están adoptando tecnologías digitales para mejorar su eficiencia y ampliar su impacto. Explora la…
Does Female Work Make Him Stay? The Impact of Female Work on Emigration
Does Female Work Make Him Stay? The Impact of Female Work on Emigration

Date issued: Jan 2025
Author(s): Arceo, Eva;López, Arnoldo;Ventosa-Santaulària, Daniel;Roque, Brian

Emigration in Mexico predominantly involves young men, with millions of individuals crossing borders, while female labor force participation (FLFP) remains significantly below international levels.…
Competition Law and Regulations: Productivity Impacts in Latin American Manufacturing Firms
Competition Law and Regulations: Productivity Impacts in Latin American Manufacturing Firms

Date issued: Jan 2025 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Wong, Sara;Petreski, Marjan

This paper investigates the effects of competition laws and regulations on manufacturing firms productivity in Latin American countries (LACs), addressing a gap in existing research. Leveraging firm-…
Low Pass-Through from Inflation Expectations to Income Growth Expectations: Why People Dislike Inflation
Low Pass-Through from Inflation Expectations to Income Growth Expectations: Why People Dislike Inflation

Date issued: Jan 2025 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Hajdini, Ina;Knotek, Edward S;Leer, John;Pedemonte, Mathieu;Rich, Robert;Schoenle, Raphael

Using a large, nationally representative survey of US consumers, we estimate a causal 20 percent pass-through from inflation expectations to income growth expectations for the average consumer, with…
Droughts and Domestic Violence: Measuring the Gender-Climate Nexus
Droughts and Domestic Violence: Measuring the Gender-Climate Nexus

Date issued: Jan 2025 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Aguilar-Gómez, Sandra;Salazar-Díaz, Andrea

Every year, 245 million women are victims of intimate partner violence (IPV). Climate change is hypothesized to exacerbate this figure through its disruptive impact on household livelihoods, among…
Measures of hospital efficiency and quality
Measures of hospital efficiency and quality

Date issued: Jan 2025
Author(s): Barraza-Lloréns, Mariana;Arceo-Schravesande, Adrian;Campos-Hernández, Ángel;Bauhoff, Sebastian;Bernal, Pedro

Hospitals are a critical component of health systems. This technical note proposes a policy-oriented framework for measuring hospital performance and provides a short list of indicators related to…