Mar 2023
The paper examines the impact of providing market-based reference prices on public procurement efficiency in Brazil. Specifically, the study focuses on the State Secretariat of Health (SES) in Rio…
Mar 2023
This paper estimates effective carbon rates (ECRs) on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from energy use for 18 Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries. We follow a methodology developed by the…
Mar 2023
El objetivo del presente trabajo es ampliar la base de conocimiento sobre el papel que desempeña la industria minera en las economías de América Latina y, en consecuencia, sobre su importancia en la…
Mar 2023
Uno de los principales desafíos de la descentralización fiscal y de los gobiernos subnacionales en América Latina y el Caribe (ALC) es la falta de conocimiento con respecto a las capacidades…
Feb 2023
CACAO is a web platform that allows for the receipt, validation, processing, and analysis of accounting data from taxpayers in a standardized manner. Developed in open-source code, the platform'…
Feb 2023
CACAO es una plataforma web que permite la recepción, validación, procesamiento y análisis de datos contables de los contribuyentes de forma estandarizada. Desarrollada en código abierto, el objetivo…
Feb 2023
Esta publicación incluye aportes para el diseño de políticas fiscales que se orienten hacia la descarbonización y la resiliencia al cambio climático. El documento aborda las principales áreas de…
Feb 2023
Most studies of total factor productivity (TFP) and long-term production functions use capital stock time series obtained from ad hoc estimates of the rate of depreciation and the initial capital…
Jan 2023
Total public debt in most emerging markets grew before and after the pandemic with a sizable share in foreign currency. Along this trend, interest payments increased even in the presence of active…
Jan 2023
The Outlook of Fiscal Relations among Levels of Government in Latin America and the Caribbean is a joint publication by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Economic Commission for Latin…
Jan 2023
Panorama das relações fiscais entre os níveis de governo dos países da América Latina e do Caribe é uma publicação conjunta do Banco Interamericano de Desenvolvimento (BID) e da Comisso Econômica das…
Jan 2023
Building Information Modelling (BIM) es una innovación revolucionaria que, implementada adecuadamente, promete un importante ahorro en los gastos de infraestructura al facilitar la colaboración…
Dec 2022
Why do individuals preferences for redistribution often diverge widely from their material self-interest? Using an original online survey experiment spanning eight countries and 12,000 respondents…
Nov 2022
La Gestión Financiera Pública (GFP) tiene un papel muy importante que cumplir en las políticas públicas, y debe alinear sus procesos y sistemas con los desafíos del clima y de la biodiversidad, en…
Nov 2022
Governments can issue public debt for both good and bad reasons. The former include intertemporal tax smoothing, fiscal stimulus, and asset management. In contrast, the bad reasons, which generate…
Oct 2022
This paper provides a comprehensive early warning system (EWS) that balances the classical signaling approach with the best-realized machine learning (ML) model for predicting fiscal stress episodes…
Sep 2022
Scholars have long struggled to understand why individual preferences for redistribution often diverge widely from their material self-interest. The puzzle is acute in Latin America, largely…
Sep 2022
Para alinear el gasto público con las estrategias nacionales de cambio climático y con los compromisos de mitigación asumidos en referencia a las contribuciones determinadas a nivel nacional (NDC,…
Sep 2022
This paper introduces a dataset that gathers information on whether and how Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have complied with or deviated from implemented fiscal rules. It provides annual data…
Jul 2022
In early 2020, once the severity was recognized on a global scale, the COVID-19 pandemic quickly became the most immediately pressing crisis. In addition to the general demands the pandemic created…