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Jun 2016
Countries invest in physical capital in order to grow. In principle, domestic investment can be financed with either national or foreign financing. However, foreign financing is not a good substitute…
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Jun 2016
When it comes to consumption and saving, there are two groups of people: those who produce resources actively in the labor market, and those who depend on what others produce because they are either…
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Jun 2016
Pension systems in Latin America and the Caribbean are broken. To begin with, they cover less than half the population. Moreover, flaws in structure and financing make some of them unsustainable,…
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Jun 2016
Increasing national saving requires everyone to pitch in, including the government. Traditionally, policies to boost public saving have focused on either raising taxes or cutting spending—or both.…
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Jun 2016
Ultimately, Latin America’s low saving rate can be traced back to individual households throughout the region. Why do they—or do they not—save and how? Answering this question is not an easy task.…
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Jun 2016
Saving rates are relatively low in Latin America and the Caribbean, as is productivity growth. Are these two facts related? Much of this book has argued that indeed, a relationship exists and that…
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Jun 2016
This book argues that Latin America and the Caribbean suffers from two interrelated problems: saving is low, and those meager savings are used inefficiently. The two problems are connected and…
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Jun 2016
This evaluation expands a previous evaluation of the Office of Evaluation and Oversight of the BRT project results with respect to their objectives of improving mobility and access for the poor. It…
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Jun 2016
Este análisis amplía una evaluación anterior de la Oficina de Evaluación y Supervisión de los resultados de los proyectos de BRT con respecto a sus objetivos de mejorar la movilidad y el acceso para…
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Jun 2016
INTAL Connection informs on integration and trade in Latin America and the Caribbean and disseminate IADB activities on this topics.
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Jun 2016
Why should people--and economies-- save? The typical answer usually focuses on the need to protect against future shocks, to smooth consumption during hard times, in short, to save for the proverbial…
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Jun 2016
¿Por qué deberían ahorrar las personas--y las economías? La respuesta típica suele centrarse en la necesidad de protegerse ante shocks en el futuro y moderar el consumo durante los tiempos difíciles…
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Jun 2016
Por que as pessoas--e os países--devem poupar? A resposta típica geralmente reside na necessidade de se proteger contra choques futuros, equilibrar o consumo nas horas difíceis, em suma, poupar para…
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Jun 2016
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Why should people--and economies--save? The typical answer usually focuses on the need to protect against future shocks, to smooth consumptionduring hard times, in short, to save for the proverbial…
Date issued:
Jun 2016
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¿Por qué deberían ahorrar las personas--y las economías? La respuesta típica suele centrarse en la necesidad de protegerse ante shocks en el futuro y moderar el consumo durante los tiempos difíciles…
Date issued:
Jun 2016
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Generative AI enabled
Por que as pessoas --e os países-- devem poupar? A resposta típica geralmente reside na necessidade de se proteger contra choques futuros, de equilibrar o consumo nas horas difíceis; em suma, de…
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Jun 2016
A moniker often invoked to describe the Caribbean is: "high debt, low growth." It was never completely true. Today it may have become so. The tourism countries, Jamaica, Barbados, and The…
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Jun 2016
As part of its 2015-2016 annual work plan, the Office of Evaluation and Oversight (OVE) prepared the Bank's country program evaluation (CPE) with Argentina for the 2009-2015 period. This CPE is…
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Jun 2016
La oficina de Evaluación y Supervisión (OVE) preparó la Evaluación del Programa de País (CPE) con Argentina para el periodo 2009-2015. Este CPE será la tercera evaluación independiente del programa…
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Jun 2016
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Security concerns in a context of increasingly segmented supply chains haveled to stricter border control measures, which may potentially negatively
affect international trade. Customs around…
affect international trade. Customs around…
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Jun 2016
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Firms selling products abroad usually have to interact with several borderagencies that develop multiple trade regulations and oversee their
compliance. These regulations establish the…
compliance. These regulations establish the…
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Jun 2016
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In this paper, we examine an innovative postal export regime that involvesboth a streamlining of export procedures and provision of intermediation
services to investigate how firms' react…
services to investigate how firms' react…
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Jun 2016
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We examine transaction-level Peruvian import data to show that firms are subject to significant costs of port-of-entry delays. At the transaction level, we observe the time it takes a shipment to…
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Jun 2016
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In this paper, we estimate the effects of transit systems that substantiallystreamline administrative processing of trade flows. In so doing, we use a
unique dataset that consists of the…
unique dataset that consists of the…
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Jun 2016
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In this paper, we estimate the effects of custom-related delays on firms'exports. In so doing, we use a unique dataset that consists of the universe
of Uruguay's export transactions…
of Uruguay's export transactions…
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Jun 2016
This paper examines three intrinsic underlying variables affecting the provision of rural electricity services: household income, household location and a country's relative wealth in terms of…
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Jun 2016
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El presente trabajo surge como una respuesta al problema de los sobrecostos en los proyectos de infraestructura que financia el BID, y busca aportar al abordaje técnicamente consistente de los costos…
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Jun 2016
The April 2016 surveys of expectations conducted by Central Banks with inflation targeting regimes indicate that simple average growth expectations for 2016 for the eight countries covered by REVELA…
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Jun 2016
This technical note examines the impact of information and communication technology (ICT) and research and development (R&D) investment on innovation and productivity in Chilean firms, in…
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Jun 2016
How to build a convergence within the diversity of integrationist experiences? How can global efforts converge with regional and national realities through a glocal (global + local) governance that…
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Jun 2016
¿Cómo construir una convergencia en la diversidad de las experiencias integracionistas? ¿Cómo pueden confluir esfuerzos globales con realidades regionales y nacionales a través de una gobernanza…
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Jun 2016
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Latin America and the Caribbean is the most violent region in the world, with an annual homicide rate of more than 20 per 100,000 population and with an increasing trend. Yet most evidence of crime…
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Jun 2016
As part of its 2016 annual work plan, the Office of Evaluation and Oversight (OVE) is preparing the evaluation of the Inter-American Development Bank country program with Guyana for the period July…
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Jun 2016
Como parte de su plan operativo anual de 2016, la Oficina de Evaluación y Supervisión (OVE) está preparando la evaluación del programa de país del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo con Guyana…
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Jun 2016
As part of its 2016 work plan, the Office of Evaluation and Oversight (OVE) is preparing the country program evaluation (CPE) for Guatemala covering the 2012-2016 period. This approach paper…
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Jun 2016
Como parte de su plan anual de trabajo 2016, la Oficina de Evaluación y Supervisión (OVE) está preparando la Evaluación del Programa de País (CPE) con Guatemala durante el periodo 2012-2016. Este…
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Jun 2016
This study describes progress on the international exchange of tax information from the end of the Second World War -a period marked by the complete absence of interinstitutional international…
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Jun 2016
Este trabajo describe los avances del intercambio internacional de información tributaria, iniciando desde los finales de la segunda guerra mundial, caracterizado por la total ausencia de…
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Jun 2016
This qualitative study explores the degree to which the merit-based selectionof public managers leads to better public sector performance. Based on the
findings from eight case studies in…
findings from eight case studies in…
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Jun 2016
Este estudio cualitativo explora en qué medida la selección de directivos públicos bajo sistemas de mérito conduce a un mejor desempeño por parte de las instituciones públicas. A la luz de los…
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Jun 2016
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has historically been very active in engaging in the region in urban projects, particularly urban improvement programs. This document presents OVE's…
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Jun 2016
El Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID) ha desempeñado un papel muy activo desde un punto de vista histórico para participar en la región en proyectos urbanos, en particular en programas de…
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May 2016
Monitoring project investments and progress toward climate resilience in the private sector requires extensions to the normal project-level indicators of output. Based on a conceptual framework of a…
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May 2016
Monitorear las inversiones en proyectos y el progreso hacia la resilienciaclimática del sector privado requiere ampliar los indicadores más allá de
insumos y producción del proyecto. Basada en…
insumos y producción del proyecto. Basada en…
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May 2016
To a large extent, policy outcomes are shaped by governance, including institutional arrangements and forums for cooperation among and within different layers of government. In turn, the…
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May 2016
We do not live in a vacuum. Instead, we are connected to innumerable other living entities, and our individual vantage point is only one among many. When we hear people talk about protecting the…
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May 2016
Los seres humanos no existimos en la nada sino que siempre estamos inmersos en algún paisaje. Observamos a quienes están a nuestro alrededor y al paisaje que lo conforma y simultáneamente los demás…
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May 2016
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This paper documents that seasonal temperatures have significant and systematic effects on the U.S. economy, both at the aggregate level and across a wide crosssection of economic sectors. This…
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May 2016
La Guía D: Arreglos institucionales para programas de eficiencia energética está dirigida a ejecutores de medidas de eficiencia energética en instituciones locales, y en particular a aquellos…
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May 2016
Nearly five years following the creation of the Open Government Partnership (OGP), 15 member countries in the region of Latin America and the Caribbean are in the process of implementing open…