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Date issued: 12月 2018
Author(s): Carvalho Metanias Hallack, Michelle;Vazquez, Miguel;Mejdalani, Alexandre Novaes;López Soto, David Daniel;Mendes e Costa, Roberta

School electrification can decrease the gap between rural and urban education. The Brazilian policy focusing on electricity access in school decreased student’s dropout rate. Rural electrification…

Date issued: 12月 2018
Author(s): Carvalho Metanias Hallack, Michelle;Vazquez, Miguel;Mejdalani, Alexandre Novaes;López Soto, David Daniel;Mendes e Costa, Roberta

La electrificación escolar puede disminuir la brecha entre la educación rural y urbana. Los programas de electrificación rural, como Luz para Todos en Brasil, han tenido éxito en aumentar el acceso a…

Date issued: 12月 2018
Author(s): Hansz, Martín;Hernández, Diego;Rubinstein da Silva, Elias

La planificación del transporte urbano se ha desarrollado tradicionalmente sobre la base de modelos analíticos centrados en la movilidad observada, esto es, en los desplazamientos y sus…

Date issued: 12月 2018 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Lema, Daniel;Gallacher, Marcos;Egas, Juan José;De Salvo, Carmine Paolo

This report analyzes agricultural policy in Argentina, in particular with respect to the degree of support producers and consumers receive. Available evidence suggests that: (i) as a result of export…

Date issued: 12月 2018 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Lema, Daniel;Gallacher, Marcos;Egas, Juan José;De Salvo, Carmine Paolo

Este informe analiza la política agrícola argentina, particularmente lo relacionado al nivel de apoyo brindado a los productores y consumidores. A manera de contexto, el informe comienza con un…

Date issued: 12月 2018
Author(s): Pereira Dos Santos, Pablo

Guarantees are powerful tools to scale up private investment in infrastructure and enhance the catalytic role Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) play in mobilizing private resources to bridge the…

Date issued: 12月 2018
Author(s): Demaestri, Edgardo C.;Moskovits, Cynthia;Chiara, Jimena

This paper discusses the main issues concerning sovereign fiscal and financial risks from public–private partnerships (PPPs) with a focus on contingent liabilities (CLs). It is based on the…

Date issued: 12月 2018 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Banuri, Sheheryar;Keefer, Philip;Walque, Damien de

A booming literature has argued that mission-based motives are a central feature of mission-oriented labor markets. This paper shifts the focus to task-based motivation and finds that it yields…

Date issued: 12月 2018
Author(s): Schmid, Juan Pedro;Schwartz, Moises;Zegarra, Maria Alejandra;Wright, Allan;Giles Álvarez, Laura;Waithe, Kimberly;Gauto, Victor;Bollers, Elton;Mooney, Henry;Khadan, Jeetendra;Smets, Lodewijk

The divergence in the development of the countries that correspond to the Inter-American Development Bank’s Caribbean Country Department and the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS)…

Date issued: 12月 2018
Author(s): Jaitman, Laura

This paper uses the crime economics framework to shed light on the main drivers of crime and proposes avenues for future research and action in the region to reduce crime and its social and economic…