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Date issued: Mar 2026 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Pérez Urdiales, María;Giles Álvarez, Laura;Castillo, Adriana;Saavedra, Víctor;Polania Chacon, Diego Felipe;Benavides, Juan;Zapata, Juan Gonzalo;Cadena, Ximena

Lograr el acceso universal y seguro al agua y al saneamiento para 2030 sigue siendo un reto importante en América Latina y el Caribe. Aunque la región presenta altas coberturas de acceso básico, solo…

Date issued: Mar 2026
Author(s): Corrales, Luis Fernando;Maciel, Odette;King, Dana Michael;Usher, Nicole Marie;Fuscaldo Jalkh, Isabella;González, Jorge;Molina Fernández, Miguel;Vaca, Orlando;Rubio Jaramillo, Nicole Mishel;Soriano, Alejandro;Motta, Marialisa

This Independent Country Program Review (ICPR) assesses the relevance, alignment, implementation, and contributions of the Inter-American Development Bank Group's (IDB Group) 2021-2025 Country…

Date issued: Mar 2026
Author(s): Corrales, Luis Fernando;Maciel, Odette;King, Dana Michael;Usher, Nicole Marie;Fuscaldo Jalkh, Isabella;González, Jorge;Molina Fernández, Miguel;Vaca, Orlando;Rubio Jaramillo, Nicole Mishel;Soriano, Alejandro;Motta, Marialisa

Esta Revisión Independiente del Programa de País (ICPR) evalúa la relevancia, alineación, implementación y contribución de la Estrategia de País (EBP) 2021-2025 y del Programa de País (PP) del Grupo…

Date issued: Mar 2026 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Couto Ribeiro, Beatriz ;Castillo, Adriana;Pérez Urdiales, María

Limited access to safe and proximate water remains a defining constraint in Haiti, where access to piped water remains limited and school enrollment is not universal. Using a pseudo-panel constructed…

Date issued: Mar 2026
Author(s): Rajack, Robin Michael;Saboin, José Luis;Small, Charlene Marie;Davis, Timyka;Mazzocca, Angelo

This note seeks to enrich the discussion on potential solutions in the housing sector of The Bahamas. It builds on the IMFs April 2025 Bahamas Housing Affordability Report providing insights through…

Date issued: Mar 2026
Author(s): García, Pablo M.;Duran-Fernandez, Roberto;Figueroa Guajardo, David Alejandro

Despite its continental scale and global relevance, Amazonia lacks spatially disaggregated, consistent GDP measures, leaving its economy largely unmeasured at the scale where development and…

Date issued: Mar 2026
Author(s): Biderman, Ciro;Mac Dowell, Maria Cristina;Motta Café, Renata;Ferreira, Soraya Naffah

Este estudo apresenta novas estimativas dos efeitos sobre a arrecadação tributária decorrentes da redução dos custos de informação e de transação enfrentados pelos contribuintes no Brasil,…

Date issued: Mar 2026
Author(s): Levy Yeyati, Eduardo

Artificial intelligence readiness indexes have become influential tools shaping national strategies and international development priorities. But major AI readiness and governance rankings show…

Date issued: Mar 2026
Author(s): Támola, Alejandro;Joachín, Arturo;Fernández Díez, María Carmen

Public interventions in credit markets frequently prioritize micro, small, and medium enterprises, often excluding large firms based on the explicit or implicit assumption that they do not face…

Date issued: Mar 2026
Author(s): Castilleja Vargas, Liliana

Surinames economy is recovering from recent shocks but continues to face persistent, overlapping geographic, ethnic, and gender disparities that have entrenched exclusion and deprivation. At the same…