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Date issued: 10月 2020
Author(s): Stein, Ernesto H.;Bahar, Dany;Magendzo, Adrián;Zuluaga, Víctor

This paper reviews Israels early experience with dynamic entrepreneurship programs. Rather than discussing current policies, it focuses on two programs that were at the core of these policies since…

Date issued: 10月 2020
Author(s): Scartascini, Carlos;Valle Luna, Joanna

High levels of trust, both interpersonal and in institutions, are fundamental for fostering inclusive growth. Trust affects growth directly. However, trust is affected by a number of factors, one of…

Date issued: 10月 2020 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Lankester Campos, Valerie;Loaiza Marín, Kerry;Monge Badilla, Carlos

This paper analyzes the sustainability of Costa Rican sovereign debt within the intertemporal budget constraint framework, which is complemented with the estimation of the fiscal reaction function…

Date issued: 10月 2020
Author(s): Beuermann, Diether;Giles Álvarez, Laura;Hoffmann, Bridget;Vera-Cossio, Diego A.

This dataset constitute a panel follow-up to the 2016 Barbados Survey of Living Conditions. It measures welfare related variables before and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic including labor…

Date issued: 10月 2020
Author(s): Dezolt, Ana Lúcia;Muñoz Miranda, Andrés

La grave crisis generada por la pandemia del COVID-19, y la necesidad de una respuesta inmediata para combatir las consecuencias de esta crisis, requieren que la infraestructura del sistema de…

Date issued: 10月 2020
Author(s): Dezolt, Ana Lúcia;Muñoz Miranda, Andrés

O atual cenário da grave crise decorrente da pandemia do COVID-19 e a necessidade de imediata atuação no combate aos efeitos dessa pandemia requerem que a infraestrutura do sistema de compras…

Date issued: 10月 2020
Author(s): Navas, Cristian;Guevara Cué, Ángelo;Rubinstein da Silva, Elias;Mix Vidal, Richard

En las últimas décadas, la tasa de motorización en los países de América Latina y el Caribe (ALC) se ha incrementado, principalmente, por el crecimiento de los niveles de ingreso de las personas, lo…

Date issued: 10月 2020
Author(s): Barafani, Magdalena;Barral Verna, Ángeles;Basco, Ana Inés;Queijo Von Heideken, Virginia;Pietrafesa, Florencia

En el marco de la cuarta revolución industrial, el objetivo principal del presente estudio es identificar el uso actual y esperado de las nuevas tecnologías de la información y la comunicación en las…

Date issued: 10月 2020
Author(s): Rubio, Marcela G.

Nearly one quarter of El Salvador's population resides abroad as a result of historically high levels of violence, which have led to increasing family disintegration and many children being left…

Date issued: 10月 2020
Author(s): Arteaga Garavito, Maricruz;Beuermann, Diether;Giles Álvarez, Laura;McCaskie, Ariel

We conducted a telephone-based nationally representative survey of Barbados between May and June 2020. The main objective was to quantify the early consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. We document…