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Date issued: 4月 2017
Author(s): Astorga, Ignacio;Alonso, Paloma;Pinto, Diana M.;Freddi, Jazmin;Corredera Silván, Martín

Las APP son una modalidad de ejecución complementaria con los esquemas tradicionales, por lo que deben ser consistentes con los sistemas de planificación y preparación de proyectos de inversión…

Date issued: 4月 2017
Author(s): Mesquita Moreira, Mauricio;Pierola, Martha Denisse;Sánchez-Navarro, Dennis

This paper assesses the LAC's import substitution response to the recent wave of currency devaluations. For this purpose, this document uses both descriptive data and a simple econometric model…

Date issued: 4月 2017
Author(s): United Nations;World Bank;New Development Bank;Islamic Development Bank;Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank;Asian Development Bank;African Development Bank;Inter-American Development Bank;European Investment Bank;European Bank for Reconstruction and Development;International Finance Corporation

Closing the world's infrastructure gap would take $1 to $1.5 trillion annually. The Global Infrastructure Forum aims to discuss opportunities to harness public and private resources to close…

Date issued: 4月 2017
Author(s): Mercer;Inter-American Development Bank

The world needs more infrastructure, particularly in developing countries. But not just any infrastructure. To achieve the economic, social and environmental objectives embodied by the Paris…

Date issued: 4月 2017 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Rivera León, Lorena;Mairesse, Jacques;Cowan, Robin

This paper provides evidence of the existence and determinants of the publication productivity gender gap in Mexico at the individual level, and its consequences for the Mexican scientific system and…

Date issued: 4月 2017 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Buonanno, Paolo;Vargas, Juan F.

Estimating the effect of inequality on crime is challenging due to reversecausality and omitted variable bias. This paper addresses these concerns by exploiting the fact that, as suggested by recent…

Date issued: 4月 2017 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): López, César Augusto;Salazar, Lina;De Salvo, Carmine Paolo

It is a well-known fact that a great majority of countries implement agricultural input subsidies as a tool to boost agricultural productivity and output. However, even though this practice is widely…

Date issued: 4月 2017 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): López, César Augusto;Salazar, Lina;De Salvo, Carmine Paolo

Es sabido que una gran mayoría de países implementan subsidios a los insumos agrícolas como una herramienta para estimular la productividad y producción agrícola. Sin embargo, a pesar de que esta es…

Date issued: 4月 2017
Author(s): Agüero, Jorge M.;Frisancho, Verónica

Violence against women takes place mainly in the private sphere and isperpetrated by people close to the victim. These features can introduce large
biases into its reporting in specialized…

Date issued: 4月 2017 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Carrillo, Paul E.;Castro, Edgar;Scartascini, Carlos

This paper evaluates the effect of positive inducements on tax behavior by exploiting a natural experiment in which a municipality of Argentina randomly selected 400 individuals among more than 72,…