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Date issued: 8月 2018
Author(s): Meltzer, Joshua P.

This report outlines a range of reforms needed to develop a digital economy and to take advantage of digital trade opportunities. Many of the recommended reforms are domestic in nature, such as…

Date issued: 8月 2018
Author(s): Hernaiz, Daniel;Miller, Sebastián J.;Pedroni, Peter

A number of policy discussions in macroeconomics have to do with the impact of commodity price fluctuations on fiscal policy in commodity exporting countries. Commodity price movements, however, have…

Date issued: 8月 2018
Author(s): Miller, Sebastián J.;Ruiz-Tagle V., Cristóbal

This paper examines the effect of exposure to air pollution on the probability of a pregnancy ending in a stillbirth delivery. We use official registry data of pregnancy outcomes and municipality-…

Date issued: 8月 2018
Author(s): Rossi, José Luiz

This paper studies the predictive power of several proxies for liquidity in forecasting exchange rates for a set of countries from January 2001 to April 2013. The results indicate that changes in…

Date issued: 8月 2018
Author(s): Goñi Pacchioni, Edwin A.;Gonzales, Alessandra;Pardo, Francisco

Knowledge is transferred between firms explicitly or tacitly. While non-embedded knowledge can be transferred explicitly through patent citations, embedded knowledge is essentially transferred…

Date issued: 8月 2018
Author(s): Vera-Cossio, Diego A.

Decentralizing the allocation of resources to community members is an increasingly popular form of delivering public resources in developing countries. However, this approach is associated with the…

Date issued: 8月 2018 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Araujo, María Caridad;Rubio-Codina, Marta;Dormal, Marta

A medida que los programas de visitas continúan expandiéndose, es crucial desarrollar métodos costo-efectivos de monitoreo de su calidad, que sean factibles de aplicación a escala. Este documento…

Date issued: 8月 2018 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Araujo, María Caridad;Rubio-Codina, Marta;Dormal, Marta

As home visiting programs continue to expand, it is crucial to develop cost-effective methods to monitor their quality that are feasible at-scale. This paper compares two instruments widely used…

Date issued: 8月 2018
Author(s): Navajas, Fernando

Este estudio busca responder a la pregunta de cómo deberían los servicios públicos (domiciliarios) de infraestructura ser objeto de imposición, procediendo a revisar la literatura de imposición…

Date issued: 8月 2018
Author(s): Dalaison, Wilhelm;Camacho, Marcos

There are several modalities for the elaboration of social infrastructure designs: they can be carried out by the executing unit or other public institution of the borrowing country. Individual…