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Date issued: 5월 2022 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Berlinski, Samuel;Busso, Matías;Giannola, Michele

We exploit the randomized evaluation of a remedying education intervention that improved the reading skills of low-performing third grade students in Colombia, to study whether providing educational…

Date issued: 5월 2022
Author(s): Gibbons, Steve;Klinker, Marcella;Murray, Estefania

In November 2021, the Inter-American Development Banks (IDB) new Environmental and Social Policy Framework (ESPF) became effective. The IDB recognizes that human rights are central to its mission of…

Date issued: 5월 2022
Author(s): Muñoz Miranda, Andrés;Calderón, Ana Cristina;González, Ubaldo;Pessino, Carola;Calijuri, Mónica;Reyes-Tagle, Gerardo;Ardanaz, Martín;Nicaretta, Romina

Este documento discute cómo la transformación digital de la gestión fiscal puede contribuir para fortalecer la sostenibilidad de las finanzas públicas, impulsar el crecimiento, económico y fomentar…

Date issued: 5월 2022 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Barreix, Alberto Daniel;Bes, Martín;González, Ubaldo;Pineda, Emilio;Riccardi, Andrea

A finales de 2021, 137 países llegaron a un acuerdo para reformar aspectos internacionales del impuesto a la renta de sociedades (IS) y prevenir la erosión de la base imponible que permite la…

Date issued: 5월 2022
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo;Conservación Internacional Colombia;Colombia. Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible

Las regiones tropicales de alta montaña, como las que se encuentran en el Corredor Chingaza-Sumapaz-Guerrero (corredor CSG), y particularmente los páramos, se caracterizan por su excelente capacidad…

Date issued: 5월 2022 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Ghezzi, Piero;García Carpio, Juan Manuel

Este documento trata la dinámica y los determinantes del crecimiento de las unidades productivas de menor tamaño (MYPE) utilizando el marco conceptual de la “valla de la calidad”, el cual pone…

Date issued: 5월 2022 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Huneeus, Federico;Larrain, Borja;Larrain, Mauricio;Prem, Mounu

We use matched employer-employee data together with data on the ownership networks of Chilean firms to document a novel relationship between inequality in labor income and ownership structures.…

Date issued: 5월 2022
Author(s): Garde, María José;Manatta, Zayda;Pineda, Emilio;De Michele, Roberto

The availability of beneficial ownership information on legal persons and arrangements is a key requirement of tax transparency and a key instrument in the fight against tax evasion and other…

Date issued: 5월 2022
Author(s): Garde, María José;Manatta, Zayda;Pineda, Emilio;De Michele, Roberto

La disponibilidad de información sobre el beneficiario final de las personas e instrumentos jurídicos es un requisito fundamental de la transparencia fiscal y un instrumento clave en la lucha contra…

Date issued: 5월 2022
Author(s): Quirós, Daniel;Ulloa, David;Murillo, Catalina;Fernández, Olivia;Chaves, Luis;Porras, Santiago;Campbell Barr, Shirley;León, José Pablo;Schumacher, Camila;Porras, Leonardo;Macaya T., Emilia;Mora, Ana

Major changes demand exertions of the imagination. Costa Rica possesses significant challenges in its Nationally Determined Contribution presented in 2020 (NDC 2020), the National Decarbonization…

Date issued: 5월 2022
Author(s): Quirós, Daniel;Ulloa, David;Murillo, Catalina;Fernández, Olivia;Chaves, Luis;Porras, Santiago;Campbell Barr, Shirley;León, José Pablo;Schumacher, Camila;Porras, Leonardo;Macaya T., Emilia;Mora, Ana

Los grandes cambios exigen esfuerzos de la imaginación. Costa Rica se plantea grandes desafíos en su Contribución Nacionalmente Determinada presentada en 2020 (NDC 2020), el Plan Nacional de…

Date issued: 5월 2022 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Valencia, Oscar;Gomez-Gonzalez, Jose E.;Sánchez, Gustavo

This paper studies the effect of fiscal rules on debt affordability in a large set of developed and emerging market economies, using a panel data model which allows the inclusion of weakly exogenous…

Date issued: 5월 2022 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Gomez-Gonzalez, Jose E.;Uribe, Jorge M.;Valencia, Oscar

This paper studies volatility spillovers in credit default swaps (CDS) between the corporate sectors and Latin American countries. Daily data from October 14, 2006, to August 23, 2021, are employed.…

Date issued: 5월 2022
Author(s): BID Lab;Foro Económico Mundial

Entre el primer y el segundo trimestre de 2020, el tráfico de los sitios web de comercio electrónico de cinco de los principales mercados de la región creció más de un 150%. La pandemia de COVID-19…

Date issued: 5월 2022
Author(s): IDB Lab;World Economic Forum

Between the first and second quarters of 2020, e-commerce website traffic from five of the regions major markets increased by over 150%. The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed and pulled tens of thousands…

Date issued: 5월 2022 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Acuna, Julio;Balza, Lenin;Gómez Parra, Nicolás

To study the causal impact of oil royalties on human capital, we exploit quasi-experimental variation arising from a law in Ecuador that transfers resources to municipalities regardless of their oil-…

Date issued: 5월 2022
Author(s): Manzano, Osmel;Saboin, José Luis

This paper provides evidence of a positive effect of institutions and reforms in initiating investment booms. We constructed an unbalanced panel of 178 countries for the period 19502019 that…

Date issued: 5월 2022
Author(s): Murguia, Juan M.;Ordoñez, Pablo;Corral, Leonardo;Navarrete-Chacón, Gilmar

Several countries have implemented payment-for-ecosystem-services (PES) programs, buoyed by the promise of these programs as a win-win strategy that would allow both the conservation of natural…

Date issued: 5월 2022
Author(s): Navia Díaz, María del Rosario;Aguilera, Julio Cesar;Bohórquez, Juan Fernando

Esta publicación incluye los principales resultados de la evaluación del desempeño de 32 empresas prestadoras de los servicios de acueducto y alcantarillado en Colombia, con base en la aplicación del…

Date issued: 5월 2022
Author(s): Aranco, Natalia;Ibarrarán, Pablo;Stampini, Marco

The rapid aging of the population will cause a sharp increase in the demand for dependency care services in Latin America and the Caribbean. In order to inform policy-making, in this study we present…

Date issued: 5월 2022
Author(s): Aranco, Natalia;Ibarrarán, Pablo;Stampini, Marco

El rápido envejecimiento de la población provocará un fuerte aumento de la demanda de servicios de atención a la dependencia en América Latina y el Caribe. Con el fin de informar la elaboración de…

Date issued: 5월 2022
Author(s): Hernández, Juan;Santaella, Juan;Wills, Daniel

The COVID-19 pandemic produced a shock to public finances throughout the world. In the case of Colombia, the public debt to GDP ratio increased from 39.8% to 65.0%. We use a two-country neoclassical…

Date issued: 5월 2022 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Ardanaz, Martín;Bonet, Jaime Alfredo;Garson, Sol;Huanqui Valcárcel, Silvana;Muñoz Miranda, Andrés;Pérez, Gerson Javier;Slack, Enid

Cities are important drivers of productivity, innovation, and economic growth. To achieve their full economic potential, cities must deliver high-quality public services to their residents and…

Date issued: 5월 2022
Author(s): Mohnen, Pierre

This paper reviews the empirical evidence on the effects of tax incentives on R&D, innovation, and productivity and on the effects of the tax burden on the relocation of R&D facilities. It…

Date issued: 5월 2022 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Ackermann, María Noel;Costa, Nicolás;Román, Natalia;Muñoz, Gonzalo;De Salvo, Carmine Paolo

Entre 2017 y 2020, el total de apoyos anuales debidos a políticas públicas que recibió el sector agropecuario de Uruguay promedió casi USD 430 millones, lo que equivale al 0,76% del PIB de la…