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Date issued: 12月 2019 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Álvarez Marinelli, Horacio;Berlinski, Samuel;Busso, Matías

This paper assesses the effectiveness of an intervention aimed at improving the reading skills of struggling third-grade students in Colombia. In a series of randomized experiments, students…

Date issued: 12月 2019
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank;Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

In 2014, the Inter-American Development Bank and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences established the Latin America and the Caribbean and China Policy and Knowledge Summit. This initiative has…

Date issued: 12月 2019
Author(s): Avellán, Leopoldo;Goncalves Cavalcanti, Vitor;Leal Calderon, Zulima;Lotti, Giulia

This paper assesses the link between the effort to prepare investment projects and the effort to implement them. Effort is measured as the total number of staff hours devoted to the project…

Date issued: 12月 2019
Author(s): Vera-Cossio, Diego A.

Starting in 2006, Bolivia implemented a non-targeted, nationwide conditional cash transfer program that delivered transfers to households of school-age children conditional on attendance. The program…

Date issued: 12月 2019
Author(s): Vera-Cossio, Diego A.

A partir de 2006, Bolivia implementó un programa de transferencia monetaria condicionada no focalizado en todo el país que entrega transferencias a los hogares de niños en edad escolar, condicionadas…

Date issued: 12月 2019
Author(s): Altamirano Montoya, Álvaro;Azuara Herrera, Oliver;González, Stephanie;Ospino, Carlos;Sánchez-Navarro, Dennis;Torres, Jesica

Esta nota contiene la metodología que se utilizó para clasificar ocupaciones laborales en América Latina y el Caribe, tomando como base la información proporcionada por la Red de Información sobre…

Date issued: 12月 2019
Author(s): Silva Paredes, Mariana;Noriega Navarrete, Diana Verónica;Aliaga Lordemann, Javier;Araujo Gutiérrez, Zuelclady Ma. F.;Ramírez García, José

Esta publicación es un instrumento práctico que facilita la planeación ante el cambio climático de manera efectiva y participativa, a través de un proceso que promueve el uso de modelos y…

Date issued: 12月 2019 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Ayres, João;Hevia, Constantino;Nicolini, Juan Pablo

This paper shows that there is substantial comovement between prices of primary commodities such as oil, aluminum, maize, or copper and real exchange rates between developed economies such as Germany…

Date issued: 12月 2019 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Vera-Cossio, Diego A.

Limited information about borrowers may create allocative distortions in credit markets. Community-based lending programs may reduce these distortions by exploiting relevant information available to…

Date issued: 12月 2019 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Giordano, Paolo;Ortiz de Mendívil, Cloe

Since the turn of the century, economic ties between Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and Asia have deepened to unprecedented levels. Due to high and growing complementarity, trade has been the…