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Date issued: Apr 2023
Author(s): Soriano, Alejandro;Legarreta, Regina;Peña-Habib, Oliver;Dyer, Henry;Salazar, Elizabeth;Monroy, Maria Clemencia;King, Julie

This Independent Country Program Review (ICPR) analyzes the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Group's
country strategy and country program with Colombia for the 2019-2022 period. The…

Date issued: Apr 2023
Author(s): Soriano, Alejandro;Legarreta, Regina;Peña-Habib, Oliver;Dyer, Henry;Salazar, Elizabeth;Monroy, Maria Clemencia;King, Julie

Esta Revisión Independiente del Programa de País (ICPR) analizó la estrategia y el programa del Grupo Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID) en Colombia en el periodo 2019-2022. La ICPR busca…

Date issued: Apr 2023
Author(s): Sánchez-Carreira, María del Carmen;Peñate-Valentín, María Concepción;Amoedo, José Manuel;Campos Romero, Hugo;Blanco-Varela, Bruno

La compra pública de innovación (CPI) es una herramienta que muchos países están adoptando para promover la innovación desde la demanda pública, pero todavía existe poca documentación e insuficientes…

Date issued: Apr 2023
Author(s): Barrio Sarmiento, Adela;Cicarele, Alessandro;Ibáñez, Ana María;Nicaretta, Romina;Rodríguez, Lorena;Villalba, Harold;Wanner, Z’leste;Watson, Noshua

This technical note discusses a framework and methodology for building an index to measure the impact of knowledge produced and disseminated by the Inter-American Development Bank, known as the…

Date issued: Apr 2023
Author(s): Barrio Sarmiento, Adela;Cicarele, Alessandro;Ibáñez, Ana María;Nicaretta, Romina;Rodríguez, Lorena;Villalba, Harold;Wanner, Z’leste;Watson, Noshua

Esta nota técnica desarrolla un marco y una metodología para construir un índice que permita medir el impacto del conocimiento producido y divulgado por el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo,…

Date issued: Apr 2023
Author(s): Miller, Sebastián J.

Chile se convirtió en el de mayor ingreso per cápita en la región y el de mejor índice de Desarrollo Humano, muy cerca del promedio de los miembros de la OCDE. Es el país de la región que más avances…

Date issued: Apr 2023
Author(s): Astesiano, Gastón;Lembo, Carolina;Suárez-Alemán, Ancor;Simón Morientes, Cristina;Castillo Martínez, Paula;Araújo, Ana Beatriz;Hurtado, Jaime

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) holds the PPP Americas every two years in partnership with a national or subnational government. The regional forum brings together top professionals and…

Date issued: Apr 2023 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Contreras, M. Ignacia;Duryea, Suzanne;Martínez, Claudia

Using a rich set of administrative data, we study the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the transition to tertiary education for students with disabilities in Chile. Enrollment rates in primary and…

Date issued: Apr 2023 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Díaz Escobar, Ana María;Salas Bahamón, Luz Magdalena;Piras, Claudia;Suaya, Agustina

This study tests four "light touch" interventions in the language used in job posts of male- dominated occupations to attract female workers using a discrete choice experiment. This…

Date issued: Apr 2023
Author(s): Doty, Pamela

Cash and counseling provides an allowance that recipients can use to purchase home- and community-based long-term care services instead of receiving them from an agency. This scheme gives…

Date issued: Apr 2023
Author(s): Doty, Pamela

El presupuesto con consejos (“Cash and Counseling”, en inglés) proporciona un subsidio que los beneficiarios pueden utilizar para adquirir servicios de cuidados de larga duración en el domicilio y en…

Date issued: Apr 2023
Author(s): Doty, Pamela

Orçamento com conselhos fornece um subsídio que os beneficiários podem usar para comprar serviços de cuidados domiciliares e comunitários a longo prazo em vez de recebê-los de uma agência. Este…

Date issued: Apr 2023 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Benitez-Rueda, Miguel;Domínguez, Nicolás;Parrado, Eric

Mobility restrictions have the potential to accelerate automation. Using difference-in-differences and triple-differences empirical strategies, and leveraging cross-industry variation in mobility…

Date issued: Apr 2023
Author(s): Fumega, Silvana;Fallas, Hassel

La violencia contra las mujeres y los feminicidios son problemas graves en América Latina y el Caribe. Esta nota técnica explora los alcances y limitaciones de los datos de feminicidio en cinco…

Date issued: Apr 2023 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Cafferata, Fernando Gabriel;Domínguez, Patricio;Scartascini, Carlos

Overconfidence leads to risky behavior, including when people are around guns. Does overconfidence also shape attitudes about gun ownership and use? We evaluate this possibility by conducting…

Date issued: Apr 2023
Author(s): Álvarez, Isabel;Castillo, Yury

The Caribbean economies are well-ranked in terms of womens participation in the labor market, but less so in terms of innovation, suggesting the relevance of an analysis of gender diversitys impact…

Date issued: Apr 2023
Author(s): Minatta, Alejandro;Basani, Marcello

El objetivo de este documento es contribuir a sensibilizar, enriquecer y complementar el tratamiento de la regulación como medio para promover la innovación en el sector de agua, saneamiento y…

Date issued: Apr 2023
Author(s): Escuder-Bueno, Ignacio;Yarritu-Sánchez, Helena;Morales-Torres, Adrián;Suarez, Ginés

Esta nota técnica fue elaborada como parte del Diálogo Regional de Política “La Integración del Análisis del Riesgo de Desastres y Cambio Climático en la Inversión Pública”, celebrado en noviembre de…

Date issued: Apr 2023
Author(s): Astorga, Ignacio;Sório, Rita Elisabeth;Bauhoff, Sebastian

This policy note comprehensively summarizes the relationships between climate change and health, opportunities for contribution, and specific recommendations for intervention. The first section…

Date issued: Apr 2023
Author(s): Astorga, Ignacio;Sório, Rita Elisabeth;Bauhoff, Sebastian

En esta nota de política se resumen de manera integral las relaciones entre cambio climático y salud, las oportunidades de contribución y recomendaciones específicas de intervención. En la primera…

Date issued: Apr 2023
Author(s): Astorga, Ignacio;Sório, Rita Elisabeth;Bauhoff, Sebastian

Esta nota de política resume de forma abrangente as relações entre mudança climática e saúde, oportunidades de contribuição e recomendações específicas para o desenho de novas intervenções. A…

Date issued: Apr 2023
Author(s): Bagolle, Alexandre;Costella, Cecilia;Goyeneche, Laura

Climate change threatens the well-being of millions of people in Latin America and the Caribbean. The region is experiencing an increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events and…

Date issued: Apr 2023
Author(s): Bagolle, Alexandre;Costella, Cecilia;Goyeneche, Laura

El cambio climático amenaza el bienestar de millones de personas en América Latina y el Caribe. Los eventos climáticos extremos y los desastres están aumentando en frecuencia e intensidad, lo que…

Date issued: Apr 2023
Author(s): Bagolle, Alexandre;Costella, Cecilia;Goyeneche, Laura

A mudança climática ameaça o bem-estar de milhes de pessoas na América Latina e no Caribe. Eventos climáticos extremos e desastres esto aumentando em frequencia e intensidade, afetando…

Date issued: Apr 2023
Author(s): Guerrero, Isabel;Rivera, Johanan

The approach to scaling up innovations in development is broken due to insufficient skills and funding for intermediation. Intermediation involves the essential technical assistance required by…