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Date issued: 10월 2022 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Alviarez, Vanessa

Global value chains (GVCs) provide countries with opportunities to diversify trade, and boost productivity and growth by specializing in one stage of the production process. However, for the most…

Date issued: 10월 2022 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Fuentes, Nelson;Aguilar, Gonzalo;Trillos, Camila

Using an impact evaluation methodology for interrupted time-series and the IDB Pension Projection Model, this study estimates that the COVID-19 pandemic could have notably effects on the private…

Date issued: 10월 2022
Author(s): Arias, Karla;Camino-Mogro, Segundo;Weiss, Mariana;Matías, David;Daltro, Yuri;Carvajal, Franco;Carvalho Metanias Hallack, Michelle

This study identifies and analyzes the evolution of efficiency in providing services and in the financial performance of the LAC electricity distribution companies between 2014-2020. In addition, it…

Date issued: 10월 2022
Author(s): Arias, Karla;Camino-Mogro, Segundo;Weiss, Mariana;Matías, David;Daltro, Yuri;Carvajal, Franco;Carvalho Metanias Hallack, Michelle

Este estudio identifica y analiza la evolución de la eficiencia en la prestación de servicios y en el desempeño financiero de las empresas distribuidoras de electricidad de ALC entre 2014-2020.…

Date issued: 10월 2022
Author(s): Féry, Guillaume

This discussion paper provides a foundation for digital transformation of water and sanitation utilities and illustrates how emerging technologies, new types of organizations, and forms of working…

Date issued: 10월 2022
Author(s): García Zaballos, Antonio;Dalio, Maribel;Garran, Jesús;Iglesias Rodriguez, Enrique;Puig Gabarró, Pau;Martínez Garza Fernández, Ricardo

El desarrollo de la tecnología 5G nos permitirá descubrir cosas que hasta ahora no podíamos hacer tecnológicamente. Y habilitará la fusión del mundo físico (operational technology, OT) con el mundo…

Date issued: 10월 2022
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

Environmental journalists have worked for decades to increase awareness of the imminent climate crisis. They did so long before the issue ever made the front page, or companies had sustainability…

Date issued: 10월 2022
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

Desde hace décadas, los periodistas ambientales trabajan para aumentar la visibilidad de la crisis climática que enfrentamos. Ya lo hacían cuando el tema todavía no llegaba a las portadas de los…

Date issued: 10월 2022 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Trachtenberg, Danielle

This document uses responses from a questionnaire to examine whether tax policy is a barrier to information technology (IT) services imports in Latin America and the Caribbean. The responses show…

Date issued: 10월 2022 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Castro, Rubén;González, Leonardo;Schiappacasse, Ignacio;Tapia, Juan

The Chilean pension system was hit hard during 2020-2021 by the withdrawal of 25 per cent of the individual pensions funds accumulated by 2019, an amount equivalent to 20 per cent of Chiles GDP. We…

Date issued: 10월 2022 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Frisancho, Verónica;Pappa, Evi;Santantonio, Chiara

Every day, three women are murdered in the United States by a current or former partner. Yet policy action to prevent gender-based violence has been limited. Previous studies have highlighted the…

Date issued: 10월 2022 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Álvarez Marinelli, Horacio;Berlinski, Samuel;Busso, Matías;Martínez Correa, Julián

Teachers are the most fundamental input of students' learning. For this reason, developing teaching skills is a policy priority for most governments around the world. We experimentally evaluate…

Date issued: 10월 2022 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Bedoya-Maya, Felipe;Calatayud, Agustina;González Mejia, Vileydy

Road congestion and air pollution are key challenges for quality of life in urban settings. This research leverages highly disaggregated crowdsourced data from Latin America to study the effect of…

Date issued: 10월 2022 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Alberti, Juan;Beltrán Real, Óscar Mauricio;Juárez, Rodrigo;Pereyra, Andrés

El Metro de Medellín es el resultado de un largo proceso de planificación llevado a cabo en la ciudad de Medellín ubicada en el Valle de Aburrá, en el departamento de Antioquia, en Colombia. La…

Date issued: 10월 2022 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Rofman, Rafael;Baliña, Joaquín;López Méndez, Emanuel

This paper presents a first approximation to assess the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on Argentinas pension system in both the short and medium/long-term. To this end, we have used the Pension…

Date issued: 10월 2022
Author(s): Minatta, Alejandro;Basani, Marcello

El fomento de la innovación en el sector agua, saneamiento y residuos sólidos (AyS) resulta esencial para, entre otros objetivos, contribuir a la efectiva consecución, de forma rápida y eficiente, de…

Date issued: 10월 2022
Author(s): Alaimo, Veronica;Alarcón, Valente;Hernández Ramírez, José Pablo;Kaplan, David S.;Novella, Rafael;Chaves, María Noel

The COVID-19 pandemic marked a turning point in the way we work. The work flexibility that first emerged in Europe in the 1990s to facilitate the balance between personal and professional life is now…

Date issued: 10월 2022
Author(s): Alaimo, Veronica;Alarcón, Valente;Hernández Ramírez, José Pablo;Kaplan, David S.;Novella, Rafael;Chaves, María Noel

La pandemia del COVID-19 marcó un punto de inflexión en la manera de trabajar. La flexibilidad laboral que surgió por primera vez en Europa en los años 90 para facilitar el balance entre la vida…

Date issued: 10월 2022
Author(s): Alaimo, Veronica;Alarcón, Valente;Hernández Ramírez, José Pablo;Kaplan, David S.;Novella, Rafael;Chaves, María Noel

A pandemia de COVID-19 marcou um ponto de virada na forma como trabalhamos. A flexibilidade no trabalho, que surgiu pela primeira vez na Europa nos anos 90 para facilitar o equilíbrio entre a vida…

Date issued: 10월 2022
Author(s): African Development Bank;Asian Development Bank;Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank;Council of Europe Development Bank;European Bank for Reconstruction and Development;European Investment Bank;Inter-American Development Bank;Islamic Development Bank;New Development Bank;World Bank

The Joint Report on Multilateral Development Banks Climate Finance is an annual collaborative effort to publish multilateral development bank climate finance figures, together with a clear…

Date issued: 10월 2022
Author(s): De la Peña, Maria Eugenia;Larrea, Christian J.;Sasaki, Keisuke;Smith, David

El crecimiento acelerado de la población así como los efectos del cambio climático contribuyen a la profundización de las desigualdades en el acceso a agua y saneamiento en la región de América…

Date issued: 10월 2022
Author(s): Bogado, Eduardo;Cuppens, Arnoud;Manjarrés, José Francisco

El presente documento tiene como objetivo realizar un análisis exhaustivo de la situación de la prestación de los servicios de agua potable y saneamiento en Paraguay, mediante la verificación de los…

Date issued: 10월 2022
Author(s): Talamas Marcos, Miguel Ángel

In Mexico, a grandmothers death, through its impact on childcare availability, reduces mothers employment rate by 12 percentage points but does not affect fathers employment rate. This equals half of…

Date issued: 10월 2022
Author(s): Talamas Marcos, Miguel Ángel

En México, la muerte de una abuela, a través de su impacto en la disponibilidad de cuidados infantiles, reduce la tasa de empleo de las madres en 12 puntos porcentuales, pero no influye en la tasa de…

Date issued: 10월 2022
Author(s): Grasso, Diego Ignacio;Castillo Leska, Ana;Castillo, Fausto;Castro Blandón, Carmen

Desde BID Lab creemos que el uso de soluciones tecnológicas en la agricultura y las cadenas de valor agropecuaria ayudarán a reducir las brechas de productividad de forma más sostenible, apoyar a…