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Date issued: 11月 2019
Author(s): Johannsen, Julia;Martinez, Sebastian;Vidal, Cecilia;Yarygina, Anastasiya

Este documento presenta los resultados de la evaluación de impacto de la modalidad de centros infantiles del programa “Crecer Bien Para Vivir Bien” en Bolivia. El programa buscaba contribuir a…

Date issued: 11月 2019 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Ardila, Sergio;Blyde, Juan S.;Bril-Mascarenhas, Tomás;Cornick, Jorge;Frieden, Jeffry;Ghezzi, Piero;Li, Kun;Merchán, Federico;Mesquita Moreira, Mauricio;Rodríguez Chatruc, Marisol;Reardon, Thomas;Stein, Ernesto H.;Trachtenberg, Danielle ;Volpe Martincus, Christian;Vlaicu, Razvan;Zuluaga, Víctor

Thirty years after the region embarked on large-scale liberalization, trade policy could have been expected to become all but irrelevant. Instead, a mismatch between expectations and what could…

Date issued: 11月 2019 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Ardila, Sergio;Blyde, Juan S.;Bril-Mascarenhas, Tomás;Cornick, Jorge;Frieden, Jeffry;Ghezzi, Piero;Li, Kun;Merchán, Federico;Mesquita Moreira, Mauricio;Rodríguez Chatruc, Marisol;Reardon, Thomas;Stein, Ernesto H.;Trachtenberg, Danielle ;Volpe Martincus, Christian;Vlaicu, Razvan;Zuluaga, Víctor

Treinta años después de que la región se embarcara en una liberalización a gran escala, cabía esperar que la política comercial pasara a ser prácticamente irrelevante. En cambio, un desajuste entre…

Date issued: 11月 2019 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Ardila, Sergio;Blyde, Juan S.;Bril-Mascarenhas, Tomás;Cornick, Jorge;Frieden, Jeffry;Ghezzi, Piero;Li, Kun;Merchán, Federico;Mesquita Moreira, Mauricio;Rodríguez Chatruc, Marisol;Reardon, Thomas;Stein, Ernesto H.;Trachtenberg, Danielle;Volpe Martincus, Christian;Vlaicu, Razvan;Zuluaga, Víctor

Trinta anos depois de a região haver iniciado uma liberalização comercial em larga escala, era de se esperar que a política comercial se tornasse quase que irrelevante. Em vez disso, um descompasso…

Date issued: 11月 2019
Author(s): Martinez, Sebastian;Pérez Expósito, Ana;Winters, Solis;Gonzalez Acero, Carolina

Aproximadamente la mitad de los niños menores de cinco años del Departamento de Baja Verapaz, Guatemala, sufren de desnutrición crónica. El programa SPOON busca mejorar las prácticas nutricionales y…

Date issued: 11月 2019
Author(s): Canales Ewest, Gisella;Sarria, Agustín;Méndez, Erick;Castro, Patricia;Alfaro, Cinthya;Libby, Margarita H.;Castrillo Morales, Rosana;Aguirre, Claudia;Castillo, Miriam;Castillo, Sobeyda

Esta guía dinámica de gestión de la modernización de las fronteras tiene como objetivo facilitar a los gobiernos, instituciones y a las unidades ejecutoras de proyectos de esta índole en cualquier…

Date issued: 11月 2019 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Li, Kun;Mesquita Moreira, Mauricio

In this paper, we analyze the impact of Chinese competition on manufacturing firms in El Salvador between 2005 and 2013 using manufacturing survey data and customs transaction data. We find that…

Date issued: 11月 2019 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Li, Kun;Mesquita Moreira, Mauricio

In this paper, we relate outcomes of El Salvadors local labor markets to their exposure to Chinese import competition. Using annual household surveys for 2000 to 2014, we construct a panel dataset of…

Date issued: 11月 2019 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Morillo Carrillo, José Lenin;López Soto, David Daniel;Espinosa Valderrama, Mónica;Cadena, Angela;Carvalho Metanias Hallack, Michelle

Este estudio realiza un análisis comparativo de las metas de reducción de emisiones propuestas por los diferentes países de América Latina y el Caribe en sus NDC y sus planes de expansión de…

Date issued: 11月 2019
Author(s): Gutiérrez Puebla, Javier;Benítez, Carolina;Leaño, Juan Manuel;García Palomares, Juan Carlos;Condeço Melhorado, Ana;Mojica, Carlos;Scholl, Lynn;Adler, Verónica;Vera, Felipe;Moya Gómez, Borja;Romanillos Arroyo, Gustavo

La presente nota técnica explica de qué manera el análisis de grandes volúmenes de datos de la telefonía móvil puede aplicarse a la planificación del transporte y la infraestructura urbana. La…

Date issued: 11月 2019 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Corderi, David;Hori, Tsuneki;Yamín, Luis Eduardo

Existing and projected economic losses caused by floods all over the world have generated a growing consensus about the need for investment in flood risk mitigation. Most of the evidence on the…

Date issued: 11月 2019
Author(s): Romis, Monica;Coslovsky, Salo

How do innovative green technologies emerge and diffuse throughout an economy, and how can public policy affect this process? This paper draws from two case studies to reverse engineer how certain…

Date issued: 11月 2019 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Lauletta, Maximiliano;Rossi, Martín;Vieyra, Juan Cruz;Arisi, Diego

This paper analyzes the impact of MapaRegalías on efficiency in the execution of public investment projects in Colombia. MapaRegalías is an online platform that displays geo-referenced information…

Date issued: 11月 2019 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Lauletta, Maximiliano;Rossi, Martín;Vieyra, Juan Cruz;Arisi, Diego

Este documento analiza el impacto de MapaRegalías en la eficiencia de la ejecución de los proyectos de inversión pública en Colombia. MapaRegalías es una plataforma en línea que presenta información…

Date issued: 11月 2019
Author(s): Álvarez Díaz, César;Cacho Taeño, Elsa;Tejerina Vega, Beatriz;Sampedro Carral, Natalia;Tobio Martel, Alberto;Reyes, Carolina

El documento presenta los elementos de diagnóstico, el análisis de alternativas y las propuestas de intervención sugeridas hidráulicas, sanitarias y ambientales para contribuir a la recuperación y…

Date issued: 11月 2019
Author(s): Acosta M., María Elena;Basani, Marcello;Solís, Helder

En Latinoamérica y el Caribe (LAC), la importancia de la organización comunitaria radica en la cercanía con las necesidades de la población, que construye, gestiona e implementa los servicios…

Date issued: 11月 2019 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Musacchio, Aldo;Pineda, Emilio;Huber, John;Jara, Mauricio;Kim, Hyungon;Ter-Minassian, Teresa;Wagner, Rodrigo

The situation of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in Latin America and the Caribbean continues to be dire. This book uses an original database of SOE performance that shows that every year about one-…

Date issued: 11月 2019
Author(s): Giles Álvarez, Laura;Gomes, Zandra ;Schmid, Juan Pedro;Waithe, Kimberly

Barbados is a small tourism based economy accounting directly for 12 percent of real gross domestic product and over 40 percent of GDP when considering indirect spillovers to other sectors. It has…

Date issued: 11月 2019 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Vera-Cossio, Diego A.

Decreases in labor supply among cash-aid recipients are often cited as potential drawbacks of cash-transfer programs. In developing countries, such concern might be misplaced: This paper documents…

Date issued: 11月 2019
Author(s): Duryea, Suzanne;Salazar Salamanca, Juan Pablo;Pinzon Caicedo, Mariana

Who are people with disabilities? For far too long the answer to this question has been to focus on the health conditions of a person, but what if a new conceptual framework facilitated inclusion?…

Date issued: 11月 2019
Author(s): Duryea, Suzanne;Salazar Salamanca, Juan Pablo;Pinzon Caicedo, Mariana

¿Quiénes son las personas con discapacidad? Por mucho tiempo, la respuesta se ha enfocado en las condiciones de salud de una persona, pero ¿qué pasa cuando se presenta un nuevo concepto que facilita…

Date issued: 11月 2019
Author(s): Duryea, Suzanne;Salazar Salamanca, Juan Pablo;Pinzon Caicedo, Mariana

Quem são as pessoas com deficiência? Durante muito tempo, a resposta se concentrou nas condições de saúde da pessoa, mas o que acontece quando surge um novo conceito que facilita a inclusão? Nesta…

Date issued: 11月 2019 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Trachtenberg, Danielle

This paper estimates the effects of NAFTA on labor and wages in Mexico using a local labor-markets approach. While NAFTA offered greater export opportunities to Mexican firms that may raise…

Date issued: 11月 2019 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Elacqua, Gregory;Hincapie, Diana;Hincapié, Isabel;Montalva, Veronica

The extensive sorting of more talented teachers into the most advantaged schools contributes to the wide socioeconomic achievement gaps in Latin America. The Chilean Pedagogical Excellence Assignment…

Date issued: 11月 2019 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Keefer, Philip;Scartascini, Carlos;Vlaicu, Razvan

Voters would be better off if they removed politicians offering low-quality government by pursuing populist policies and re-elected those who improved government quality with sustainable policies. In…