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Nov 2026
Droughts, floods, and storms are increasingly forecastable days or weeks in advance, yet governments across Latin America and the Caribbean continue to finance them as fiscal surprises. Post-disaster…
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Nov 2026
Drawing on evidence from a broad range of policies and interventions including compulsory schooling reforms, improvements in school quality, early childhood education, extended school days,…
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Nov 2026
Este estudio presenta una actualización y revisión del análisis de políticas públicas de apoyo al sector agropecuario para Bolivia durante el período 2019-2023, utilizando la metodología de Estimado…
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Nov 2026
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This paper provides one of the first quasi-experimental evaluations of a climate-resilient agricultural intervention in Guyana and the wider Caribbean. We isolate and examine the empirical impact of…
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Oct 2026
La pobreza infantil representa un reto prioritario, tanto por sus aspectos éticos y humanitarios como por su impacto en el desarrollo económico de los países. A partir de microdatos de la Encuesta…
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Oct 2026
Esta segunda edición del Panorama de las Relaciones Fiscales entre Niveles de Gobierno en América Latina y el Caribe, elaborada en conjunto por el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID) y la…
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Oct 2026
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How can the Caribbean harness digital progress to accelerate growth, improve public services, and unlock new opportunities? This edition of the Caribbean Economics Quarterly examines advances in…
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Oct 2026
We study how the sovereign greenium, the yield discount on green relative to conventional sovereign bonds, varies with green-bond supply and sovereign-market depth across countries. Using daily bond…
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Oct 2026
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Colombia has favorable agroecological conditions but continues to face low agricultural productivity. This paper examines total factor productivity (TFP) between 2015 and 2023 using stochastic…
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Oct 2026
This brochure presents IDB Cares, the IDB Group initiative that accelerates investment in care systems, policies, and services in Latin America and the Caribbean. It shows why investing in care is…
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Oct 2026
Este brochure presenta BID Cuida, la iniciativa del Grupo BID que acelera las inversiones en sistemas, políticas y servicios de cuidado en América Latina y el Caribe. Muestra por qué invertir en…
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Oct 2026
Este folheto apresenta o BID Cuida, a iniciativa do Grupo BID que acelera os investimentos em sistemas, políticas e serviços de cuidado na América Latina e no Caribe. Mostra por que investir em…
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Oct 2026
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Electricity tariffs play a central role in ensuring the financial sustainability and efficiency of the entire electricity sector, while well-designed complementary subsidy schemes safeguard the…
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Oct 2026
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How citizens want artificial intelligence (AI) regulated will shape which AI governance instruments are politically feasible. Yet we know little about public preferences over AI policy in middle-…
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Oct 2026
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The Trade and Integration Monitor 2026 analyzes recent trends in the trade flows of Latin America and the Caribbean in an international environment marked by new geopolitical shocks and high…
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Oct 2026
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El Monitor de Comercio e Integración 2026 analiza la evolución reciente de los flujos comerciales de América Latina y el Caribe en un entorno internacional marcado por nuevos shocks geopolíticos y…
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Oct 2026
Closing the biodiversity finance gap is essential for Latin America and the Caribbean to advance toward sustainable, resilient, and inclusive development models. This requires mobilizing and…
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Oct 2026
Cerrar la brecha de financiamiento para la biodiversidad es una condición indispensable para que América Latina y el Caribe avancen hacia modelos de desarrollo sostenibles, resilientes e inclusivos.…
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Oct 2026
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We decompose sibling correlations in schooling into group-specific contributions defined by race and ethnicity Indigenous peoples, Afrodescendants, and non-Indigenous non-Afrodescendants for 19…
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Oct 2026
El MERCOSUR enfrenta un doble desafío: sostener una apertura externa más ambiciosa mientras administra tensiones internas crecientes sobre el uso de sus instrumentos comunes. Este informe analiza la…
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Oct 2026
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Un sistema financiero profundo, estable e inclusivo es un requisito clave para el crecimiento y la igualdad. Con esa premisa en mente, esta publicación analiza el estado de situación y los…
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Oct 2026
Este informe de diagnóstico presenta los resultados de la evaluación del servicio civil de Paraguay. Se basa en el marco metodológico elaborado en 2002 y en las buenas prácticas descritas en la Carta…
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Oct 2026
This companion document to the MDB High-Level Report, Investing in Nature: Status Update on Operationalizing the Common Principles, Taxonomy, and Guide on Results Metrics for Nature, presents…
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Oct 2026
Suriname has made important progress in expanding access to education, achieving near-universal primary enrollment, with more than 90% of children attending primary school (Arias Ortiz et al., 2024…
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Oct 2026
El sistema educativo boliviano enfrenta una brecha entre el esfuerzo fiscal realizado y los resultados obtenidos. A pesar de destinar a educación una proporción del PIB superior a los promedios de la…