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Date issued: Dic 2011
Author(s): McEwan, Patrick J.

High-quality impact evaluations, including randomized experiments, are increasingly popular, but cannot always inform resource allocation decisions unless the costs of interventions are considered...

Date issued: Dic 2011
Author(s): International Financial Consulting Ltd.;Inter-American Development Bank

Impact Investing is a relatively new phenomenon, gaining attention within the last few years. While the multilateral development banks have been investing for many years with the expectation of a...

Date issued: Dic 2011
Author(s): Mazza, Jacqueline

This technical note analyzes the evolution of Latin American and Caribbean systems in three stages: early development of basic services (Stage One) and advancing coverage, efficiency and services (...

Date issued: Dic 2011 IA generativa habilitada
Author(s): Rojas, Eduardo;Medellín, Nadin

This paper discusses the evolution of housing conditions in urban areas of Latin America and the Caribbean from 1995 to 2006 based on data from household surveys done in 18 countries that comprise 95...

Date issued: Dic 2011 IA generativa habilitada
Author(s): Lora, Eduardo;Fajardo, Johanna

The main contribution of this paper with respect to previous work is the use of data on subjective perceptions to identify the Latin American middle classes. This paper provides a set of comparisons...

Date issued: Dic 2011 IA generativa habilitada
Author(s): Hernani-Limarino, Werner L.;Villegas, María;Yáñez, Ernesto

This paper attempts to evaluate the effectiveness of Bolivia's labor market institutions, particularly the Plan Nacional de Empleo de Emergencia (PLANE). It is found that unemployment as...

Date issued: Dic 2011 IA generativa habilitada
Author(s): González Rozada, Martín;Ronconi, Lucas;Ruffo, Hernán

This paper takes advantage of several reforms that provide time and cross sectional variation to identify the effects of unemployment insurance and severance payments on the duration of unemployment...

Date issued: Dic 2011 IA generativa habilitada
Author(s): Bobba, Matteo;Gignoux, Jérémie

This paper considers a conditional cash transfer program targeting poor households in small rural villages and studies the effects of the geographic proximity between villages on individual...

Date issued: Dic 2011 IA generativa habilitada
Author(s): Lora, Eduardo

This is the first study that uniformly analyzes health perceptions in all of Latin America and tests in a systematic way their relation to economic conditions at the country, income group and...

Date issued: Dic 2011 IA generativa habilitada
Author(s): Powell, Andrew;Miller, Marcus;Maier, Antonia

The recent financial crisis has forced a rethink of banking regulation and supervision and the role of financial innovation. This paper develops a model where prudent banks may signal their type...