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Date issued: 1月 2014
Author(s): Scartascini, Carlos;Tommasi, Mariano

En este trabajo sobre políticas se pasa revista a las obras de investigación sobre la capacidad de los gobiernos que se han emprendido en el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo, se resalta la…

Date issued: 1月 2014
Author(s): Vegas, Emiliana;Ganimian, Alejandro;Bos, María Soledad

En el 2012, ocho países de América Latina (Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, México, Perú y Uruguay) participaron en el Programa para la Evaluación Internacional de Alumnos (PISA, por…

Date issued: 1月 2014
Author(s): Bos, María Soledad;Ganimian, Alejandro;Vegas, Emiliana

En el 2012, ocho países de América Latina (Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, México, Perú y Uruguay) participaron en el Programa para la Evaluación Internacional de Alumnos (PISA, por…

Date issued: 1月 2014 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Garofalo, Pablo;Czerwonko, Alejo;Cristia, Julian P.

Many developing countries are allocating significant resources to expanding technology access in schools. Whether these investments will translate into measurable educational improvements remains an…

Date issued: 1月 2014 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Muñoz, Juan Sebastián

This paper presents evidence of the relationship between the disparity in the academic performance of boys and girls in Colombia and the country's excessively high school dropout rates. By…

Date issued: 1月 2014 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Bet, Germán;Cristia, Julian P.;Ibarrarán, Pablo

This paper analyzes the effects of increased shared computer access in secondary schools in Peru. Administrative data are used to identify, through propensity-score matching, two groups of schools…

Date issued: 1月 2014 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Ajzenman, Nicolás;Galiani, Sebastián;Seira, Enrique

There are few reliable estimates of the effects of violence on economic outcomes. This study exploits the manifold increase in homicides in 2008-2011 in Mexico resulting from its war on organized…

Date issued: 1月 2014 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Mullally, Conner;Maffioli, Alessandro

Management is an important input into agricultural production, as it a determinant of the uptake and proper implementation of productive technologies and practices. While there is a large literature…

Date issued: 1月 2014
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

En las últimas tres décadas, América Latina y el Caribe han mejoradosignificativamente el acceso a la educación en todos los
niveles educativos, sobre todo, para los estudiantes más pobres. Sin…

Date issued: 1月 2014
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

Los países de América Latina y el Caribe están experimentando una rápida transición epidemiológica.ientras que los casos de enfermedades transmisibles y reproductivas se mantienen vigentes en la…

Date issued: 1月 2014
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

El potencial de crecimiento de América Latina y el Caribe (ALC) se ve inhibido por altos costos logísticos, de información, regulatorios y financieros. El Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID)…

Date issued: 1月 2014
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

El crecimiento económico, la calidad de vida y el nivel de pobreza de un país están directamente vinculados a las características de su sistema de transporte. Debido a esto, el Banco Interamericano…

Date issued: 1月 2014
Author(s): Bossert, Thomas;Blanchet, Nathan;Sheetz, Suzanne;Pinto, Diana M.;Cali, Jonathan;Perez-Cuevas, Ricardo

This technical note presents a comparative analysis of Latin America's fragmented health systems. It provides a detailed account of health system fragmentation along six dimensions (…

Date issued: 1月 2014
Author(s): Macinko, James

This study develops a composite measure of primary care experience, using the Commonwealth Fund's 2010 International Health Policy Survey (IHP), applied on eleven high income OECD countries, and…

Date issued: 1月 2014
Author(s): Reymondin, Louis;Coca, Alejandro;Arango, David;Jarvis, Andy;Navarrete, Carolina;Suding, Paul Hugo;Watkins, Graham George

Deforestation as one of the potential indirect impacts of infrastructure development has increasingly become an important issue in the development community. While questions concerning the drivers…

Date issued: 1月 2014 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

This book looks at the potential and the limits of policies to promote entrepreneurship as an important vehicle for social mobility in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as steps to remove the…

Date issued: 1月 2014
Author(s): Fazio, Maria Victoria;Pinder, Etoile

The Inter-America n Development Bank (IDB), through the Labour Markets and Social Security Unit, has been supporting a comprehensive labour market study (LMS) in The Bahamas to collect and analyse…

Date issued: 1月 2014
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

In Latin America and the Caribbean most people live in cities characterized by large gaps in access to housing, public spaces, urban services and infrastructure. Though urban management has improved…

Date issued: 1月 2014
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

The 2013 Annual Business Review (ABR) provides management with a status of the Bank's performance. The ABR reports on outputs, lending program priorities, and organizational indicators on a…

Date issued: 1月 2014
Author(s): Serebrisky, Tomás

The objective of this Infrastructure Strategy is to guide future Banksupport for the countries of the Region toward their adoption of a new vision of the sector. According to this vision,…

Date issued: 1月 2014
Author(s): Serebrisky, Tomás

El objetivo de esta estrategia es guiar las actividades futuras del Banco para acompañar a los países de la región en el proceso de adopción de una nueva visión, en la cual la infraestructura se…

Date issued: 1月 2014
Author(s): Batlle, Carlos

The new renewable sources, such as sun or wind, show a specific set of characteristics such as geographical and temporal variability that challenge their integration into traditional energy systems…

Date issued: 1月 2014
Author(s): Batlle, Carlos

Las nuevas fuentes renovables, como el sol o el viento, presentan una serie de características, como la variabilidad temporal y geográfica, que plantean retos importantes al convertirse en una opción…

Date issued: 1月 2014
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

El Banco de Guayaquil (BG) es uno de los bancos más grandes de Ecuador con una cuota de mercado del 12% y casi 5.000 puntos de atención en el país, entre ellos 3.756 corresponsales no bancarios del…

Date issued: 1月 2014
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

An estimated 42 percent of homes in Costa Rica are in need of repair, expansion, or some other improvement, and nearly a quarter ofthose deficient dwellings are so dilapidated as to represent an…