Jan 2020 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Carballo, Jerónimo;Marra de Artiñano, Ignacio;Volpe Martincus, Christian
Multinational production has become increasingly important in recent decades. Countries resort to different industrial policies to influence the geography of this production. In this paper, we focus…
Jan 2020 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Bobba, Matteo;Frisancho, Verónica
A growing body of evidence suggests that people exhibit large biases when processing information about themselves, but less is known about the underlying inference process. This paper studies belief…
Jan 2020 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Celhay, Pablo;Gallegos, Sebastián
This paper examines the effects of skill advantages at age six on different types of parental investments, and long-run outcomes up to age 27. We exploit exogenous variation in skills due to school…
Jan 2020 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Molina, Danielken
In this paper, I use Colombian data from 1996-2013 to construct two datasets that are used to assess whether the China Shock has affected the future growth rates of productivity, employment level,…
Jan 2020 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Blyde, Juan S.;Busso, Matías;Romero, Dario
We analyze how local labor markets in Mexico adjusted in response to an increase in Chinese import competition between 1998 and 2013. We exploit the spatial variation in import exposure arising from…
Jan 2020 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Cruz-Aguayo, Yyannu;Hincapie, Diana;Rodríguez, Catherine
Teacher evaluation is a key instrument to support the professional development of teachers and improve teacher effectiveness. This study analyzes teacher evaluation systems in Latin America and the…
Jan 2020 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Cruz-Aguayo, Yyannu;Hincapie, Diana;Rodríguez, Catherine
La evaluación docente es un instrumento fundamental para apoyar el desarrollo profesional de los maestros y mejorar la efectividad de la enseñanza. Este estudio analiza las evaluaciones docentes en…
Jan 2020 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Libertun de Duren, Nora Ruth;Guerrero Compeán, Roberto;Álvarez, Patricia;Campanella, Jorge;Gutiérrez Poisat, Sandra;Mendive, Carlos;Pando, Eduardo;David, Louise;Ramírez Arbeláez, Rubén Darío;Coulomb, Daniel;León, Estela;Martínez, Rosalva;Morán, Stephanie;Orihuela, Héctor;Gutiérrez, Lola;Presno, Lorena;Mazzini, Pablo;Corbo, Gabriel;Palomeque, Alejandro;Laria, Margarita;Zambrana, Cristian;Montero, Teresa;Morales, Paula;Narváez, Oscar;Herrera Sormano, Teresa
El Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo BID ejecutó varios Programas de Mejoramiento Integral de Barrios PMIB en ciudades de Latinoamérica y el Caribe. Estos programas incluyen estrategias para mejorar…
Jan 2020 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Khadan, Jeetendra
This paper provides long- and short -run tax buoyancy estimates for a group of 12 Caribbean countries over the period 1991-2017. By using panel regressions, this paper finds that the long- and short-…
Jan 2020 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Suárez-Alemán, Ancor;Astesiano, Gastón;Ponce de León, Oscar
Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) have been an essential tool in airport development in Latin America and the Caribbean, with regards to investment volume, number of airports developed by or…
Jan 2020 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Suárez-Alemán, Ancor;Astesiano, Gastón;Ponce de León, Oscar
Las Asociaciones Público-Privadas (APP) han constituido una herramienta esencial en el desarrollo aeroportuario de América Latina y el Caribe, atendiendo al volumen de inversión, números de…
Dec 2019 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Graterol Matute, Eduardo;Pulver, Edward;Jaramillo Cardona, Santiago;Urioste Daza, Sergio Alejandro;Labarta, Ricardo;Arana Salazar, J. A.;Reyes, Byron;Obando, Miguel;Moreno, Carlos
Esta publicación es una contribución clave a la generación de nuevo conocimiento que permita mejorar la capacidad de adaptación de algunos sectores agroalimentarios más importantes de la región del…
Dec 2019 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Castellanos, Sebastián;De la Lanza, Iván;Bray Sharpin, Anna;Lleras, Natalia;Lo Re, Luca;Amezola Rodríguez, Diana
La publicación está dirigida a tomadores de decisiones públicas que estén en las etapas iniciales de planeación de un sistema de bicicletas compartidas (SBC). Se basa en las lecciones aprendidas…
Dec 2019 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Rivas, María Eugenia;Suárez-Alemán, Ancor;Serebrisky, Tomás
Policy innovations are needed to break the vicious cycle in urban transport in LAC. The ultimate objective should be reliable, efficient, high-quality, and sustainable urban transport. The study…
Dec 2019 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Rivas, María Eugenia;Suárez-Alemán, Ancor;Serebrisky, Tomás
Se necesitan políticas innovadoras para romper el círculo vicioso del transporte urbano en LAC. El objetivo final debe ser un transporte urbano confiable, eficiente, de calidad y sostenible. El…
Nov 2019 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Mesquita Moreira, Mauricio;Stein, Ernesto H.;Li, Kun;Merchán, Federico;Volpe Martincus, Christian;Blyde, Juan S.;Trachtenberg, Danielle ;Cornick, Jorge;Frieden, Jeffry;Rodríguez Chatruc, Marisol;Vlaicu, Razvan;Zuluaga, Víctor;Bril-Mascarenhas, Tomás;Ardila, Sergio;Ghezzi, Piero;Reardon, Thomas
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…
Nov 2019 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Mesquita Moreira, Mauricio;Stein, Ernesto H.;Li, Kun;Merchán, Federico;Volpe Martincus, Christian;Blyde, Juan S.;Trachtenberg, Danielle ;Cornick, Jorge;Frieden, Jeffry;Rodríguez Chatruc, Marisol;Vlaicu, Razvan;Zuluaga, Víctor;Bril-Mascarenhas, Tomás;Ardila, Sergio;Ghezzi, Piero;Reardon, Thomas
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…
Nov 2019 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Mesquita Moreira, Mauricio;Stein, Ernesto H.;Li, Kun;Merchán, Federico;Volpe Martincus, Christian;Blyde, Juan S.;Trachtenberg, Danielle;Cornick, Jorge;Frieden, Jeffry;Rodríguez Chatruc, Marisol;Vlaicu, Razvan;Zuluaga, Víctor;Bril-Mascarenhas, Tomás;Ardila, Sergio;Ghezzi, Piero;Reardon, Thomas
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…
Nov 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-…
Jul 2019 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Manzano, Osmel;Ruiz-Arranz, Marta;Rivera, Luis;Trejos, Alberto;Prat, Jordi;Rojas-Romagosa, Hugo;Guevara, Porfirio;Auguste, Sebastián;Linares, Jennifer;Abuelafia, Emmanuel;Lagarda, Guillermo;Salman, Danial M.;López, Arnoldo;Pagliacci, Carolina;Brizuela, María Eugenia;Guzmán, Rolando M.
En los últimos 30 años, la región de Centroamérica y la República Dominicana ha vivido un periodo de estabilidad y progreso económico en donde le ha apostado a la integración comercial, a la…