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Date issued: Oct 2026
Author(s): Williams, Guy;Watson, Gregory

This policy brief provides practical guidance for governments, multilateral development banks (MDBs), and national development banks (NDBs) on how nature credits can support the mobilization of…

Date issued: Oct 2026 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Aranco, Natalia;Stampini, Marco;Ibarrarán, Pablo;Rivas Herrera, Carolina

We estimate and analyze unpaid care for children, persons with disabilities, and older people in Latin America and the Caribbean using information from ten time-use surveys and imputation and…

Date issued: Oct 2026 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Aranco, Natalia;Stampini, Marco;Ibarrarán, Pablo;Rivas Herrera, Carolina

El presente estudio estima y analiza los cuidados no remunerados de niños, personas con discapacidad y personas mayores en América Latina y el Caribe a partir de la información de diez encuestas de…

Date issued: Oct 2026
Author(s): Alviarez, Vanessa;Cevallos Fujiy, Brian;Espinoza Escobar, Angel De Jesus;Święcki, Tomasz

Do the boundaries of the multinational firm shape how shocks propagate through global production networks? We link U.S. Bill of Lading microdata, geocoded natural disaster records, and cross-border…

Date issued: Oct 2026
Author(s): Moreno, Kenji;Beverinotti, Javier

Peruvian local governments manage close to 40% of national public investment, yet they execute on average only 60% of their budget. This study examines the causes of low execution at the project…

Date issued: Oct 2026
Author(s): Lopez Boo, Florencia;Daga, Giuliana;Patrone Francolino, Maria Paula;Paseyro Mayol, Joaquin;Bagolle, Alexandre

Este trabajo evalúa experimentalmente el impacto del ciclo de talleres Parentalidades Comprometidas con la Primera Infancia (PPC), un programa nacional de ocho talleres grupales con foco en la mejora…

Date issued: Oct 2026
Author(s): Busso, Matías;González-Velosa, Carolina;Muñoz-Morales, Juan S.;Ruiz, Juanita;Valencia Romero, Juan Diego;van der Werf, Cynthia

This paper studies whether government-issued skill certification improves labor market integration when workers skills are hard to verify. We evaluate a randomized offer of access to an occupation-…

Date issued: Oct 2026
Author(s): Borges, Cíntia;Tejerina, Luis;Gouvea, Livia;Chavez Mendoza, Cecilia

Este estudio de caso examina el proceso de modernización del Cadastro Único, destacando cómo la combinación de innovación tecnológica, integración de bases administrativas y fortalecimiento…

Date issued: Oct 2026
Author(s): Borges, Cíntia;Tejerina, Luis;Gouvea, Livia;Chavez Mendoza, Cecilia

Este estudo de caso analisa o processo de modernização do Cadastro Único, destacando como a combinação de inovação tecnológica, integração de bases de dados administrativas e fortalecimento…

Date issued: Oct 2026
Author(s): Hernández-Pizarro, Helena;Maynou, Laia;Prades-Colomé, Albert

Population ageing is raising the demand for long-term care (LTC), leading many countries to develop publicly funded LTC systems. However, little is known about whether the benefits these systems…