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Date issued: Jan 2014
Author(s): Bos, María Soledad;Ganimian, Alejandro;Vegas, Emiliana

En el 2012, ocho países de América Latina (Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, México, Perú y Uruguay) participaron en el Programa para la Evaluación Internacional de Alumnos (PISA, por…

Date issued: Jan 2014 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Muñoz, Juan Sebastián

This paper presents evidence of the relationship between the disparity in the academic performance of boys and girls in Colombia and the country's excessively high school dropout rates. By…

Date issued: Jan 2014 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Garofalo, Pablo;Czerwonko, Alejo;Cristia, Julian P.

Many developing countries are allocating significant resources to expanding technology access in schools. Whether these investments will translate into measurable educational improvements remains an…

Date issued: Jan 2014 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Bet, Germán;Cristia, Julian P.;Ibarrarán, Pablo

This paper analyzes the effects of increased shared computer access in secondary schools in Peru. Administrative data are used to identify, through propensity-score matching, two groups of schools…

Date issued: Jan 2014 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Ajzenman, Nicolás;Galiani, Sebastián;Seira, Enrique

There are few reliable estimates of the effects of violence on economic outcomes. This study exploits the manifold increase in homicides in 2008-2011 in Mexico resulting from its war on organized…

Date issued: Jan 2014
Author(s): Fazio, Maria Victoria;Pinder, Etoile

The Inter-America n Development Bank (IDB), through the Labour Markets and Social Security Unit, has been supporting a comprehensive labour market study (LMS) in The Bahamas to collect and analyse…

Date issued: Jan 2014
Author(s): Bossert, Thomas;Blanchet, Nathan;Sheetz, Suzanne;Pinto, Diana M.;Cali, Jonathan;Perez-Cuevas, Ricardo

This technical note presents a comparative analysis of Latin America's fragmented health systems. It provides a detailed account of health system fragmentation along six dimensions (…

Date issued: Jan 2014
Author(s): Macinko, James

This study develops a composite measure of primary care experience, using the Commonwealth Fund's 2010 International Health Policy Survey (IHP), applied on eleven high income OECD countries, and…

Date issued: Jan 2014
Author(s): Reymondin, Louis;Coca, Alejandro;Arango, David;Jarvis, Andy;Navarrete, Carolina;Suding, Paul Hugo;Watkins, Graham George

Deforestation as one of the potential indirect impacts of infrastructure development has increasingly become an important issue in the development community. While questions concerning the drivers…

Date issued: Jan 2014
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

The 2013 Annual Business Review (ABR) provides management with a status of the Bank's performance. The ABR reports on outputs, lending program priorities, and organizational indicators on a…