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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 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): 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): 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): 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 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Elías, Julio;García Negro, Álvaro;Schling, Maja;Mount, Ian

This is a study on great innovators of Peruvian gastronomy. Through it, we want to bring the reader closer to each one of them, to the process that led Peruvian gastronomy to occupy a privileged…

Date issued: 10월 2022 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Elías, Julio;García Negro, Álvaro;Schling, Maja;Mount, Ian

Este es un estudio sobre grandes innovadores de la gastronomía del Perú. A través de él queremos acercar al lector a cada uno de ellos, al proceso que llevó a la gastronomía del Perú a ocupar un…

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…

Date issued: 10월 2022
Author(s): Arguello, Ricardo;Delgado, Ricardo;Espinosa Valderrama, Mónica;González, Tomás;Sandoval, José Manuel

This document presents a scenario of sectoral transformations that would allow Colombia to achieve carbon neutrality in 2050 and quantifies the associated costs and economic benefits derived from…

Date issued: 10월 2022
Author(s): Arguello, Ricardo;Delgado, Ricardo;Espinosa Valderrama, Mónica;González, Tomás;Sandoval, José Manuel

Este documento presenta un escenario de transformaciones sectoriales que permitiría a Colombia alcanzar la carbono neutralidad en el 2050 y cuantifica los costos asociados y los beneficios económicos…

Date issued: 10월 2022 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): De Simone, Francesco;Mejia, Camila;Martinez-Carrasco, José;Perez-Vincent, Santiago M.;Villalba, Harold

Family violence is a critical development challenge in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), carrying high health, social, and economic costs and increasing the risk of perpetuating the cycle of…

Date issued: 10월 2022 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): De Simone, Francesco;Mejia, Camila;Martinez-Carrasco, José ;Perez-Vincent, Santiago M.;Villalba, Harold

La violencia familiar es un desafío crítico para el desarrollo en los países de ingresos bajos y medios, ya que conlleva altos costos sanitarios, sociales y económicos, y aumenta el riesgo de…

Date issued: 10월 2022 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Alvarez Pagliuca, Claudia;Martínez Álvarez, Juan;Pereira Dos Santos, Pablo;Serebrisky, Tomás;Suárez-Alemán, Ancor

While the region displays enormous potential for public investment efficiency gains, in other words, getting more out of fewer resources it is critical to boost mechanisms that incentivize more…

Date issued: 10월 2022 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Alvarez Pagliuca, Claudia;Martínez Álvarez, Juan;Pereira Dos Santos, Pablo;Serebrisky, Tomás;Suárez-Alemán, Ancor

Mientras que la región presenta un amplio potencial de mejora de eficiencia en inversión pública (hacer más con menos recursos disponibles) resulta crucial potenciar mecanismos que incentiven a una…

Date issued: 10월 2022 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Alvarez Pagliuca, Claudia;Martínez Álvarez, Juan;Pereira Dos Santos, Pablo;Serebrisky, Tomás;Suárez-Alemán, Ancor

Embora a região tenha um grande potencial para melhorar a eficiência do investimento público (fazer mais com menos recursos disponíveis), é fundamental promover mecanismos que estimulem investimentos…

Date issued: 10월 2022
Author(s): Yaluk, Fernando;Sosa, Martín;Walder, Valeria;Laporte, Victoria

Las obras de infraestructura son esenciales para el desarrollo y crecimiento económico de un país, en especial, en países con una limitada red vial como Paraguay. Sin embargo, el desarrollo de estos…

Date issued: 10월 2022 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Balza, Lenin;De Los Rios, Camilo;Rivera, Nathaly M.

Do resource-extraction booms crowd out postsecondary education? We explore this question by examining the higher education-related decisions of Chilean high school graduates during the 2000s…

Date issued: 10월 2022
Author(s): Libra, Jesse Madden;Baquero, María Alejandra

Universal access to safely managed drinking water by 2030 is a key goal under the 2030 UN Agenda. This fact sheet describes definitions related to safely managed drinking water as defined by the…

Date issued: 10월 2022
Author(s): Libra, Jesse Madden;Baquero, María Alejandra

El acceso universal al agua potable gestionada de manera segura a 2030 es un objetivo clave de la Agenda 2030 de la ONU. Esta hoja informativa incluye las definiciones relacionadas con el agua…

Date issued: 10월 2022
Author(s): Moore, Winston;Chueca, J. Enrique;Prado, Veronica R.;Carvalho Metanias Hallack, Michelle;Giles Álvarez, Laura

Barbados, through its Barbados National Energy Policy (BNEP) 2019-2030, announced its commitment to achieving 100 percent renewable energy and carbon neutrality by 2030. This commitment creates an…

Date issued: 9월 2022
Author(s): Perdomo Rico, Juan Camilo

Structural changes in migratory flows in recent years have led to important demographic changes in the Latin American and Caribbean region. These changes have generated the need to increase the…

Date issued: 9월 2022
Author(s): Perdomo Rico, Juan Camilo

Los cambios estructurales en los flujos migratorios en los últimos años llevan a cambios demográficos importantes en la región de América Latina y el Caribe. Estos cambios han generado la necesidad…

Date issued: 9월 2022
Author(s): Garganta, Santiago;Pinto, María Florencia;Zentner, Joaquín

Este trabajo investiga el posible impacto de una extensión en la jornada escolar sobre la fecundidad adolescente. En particular, se estudia el caso del programa “Jornada Escolar Extendida” (JEE) en…

Date issued: 9월 2022
Author(s): Garganta, Santiago;Pinto, María Florencia;Zentner, Joaquín

Este trabajo investiga el posible impacto de una extensión en la jornada escolar sobre la fecundidad adolescente. En particular, se estudia el caso del programa “Jornada Escolar Extendida” (JEE) en…

Date issued: 9월 2022
Author(s): Rossi, José Luiz;Piccioni, Carlos;Rossi, Marina;Cajueiro, Daniel

We investigated the predictability of the Brazilian exchange rate at High Frequency (1, 5 and 15 minutes), using local and global economic variables as predictors. In addition to the Linear…

Date issued: 9월 2022
Author(s): Pompeu, Gustavo;Rossi, José Luiz

The study of the predictability of exchange rates has been a very recurring theme on the economics literature for decades, and very often is not possible to beat a random walk prediction,…

Date issued: 9월 2022 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Viollaz, Mariana;Salazar-Saenz, Mauricio;Flabbi, Luca;Bustelo, Monserrat;Bosch, Mariano

We study the labor supply impact of the COVID-19 pandemic by gender in four Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries: Brazil, Chile, Dominican Republic, and Mexico. To identify the impact, we…

Date issued: 9월 2022 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Dumas, Patrice;Wirsenius, Stefan;Searchinger, Tim;Andrieu, Nadine;Vogt-Schilb, Adrien

Eleven countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have committed to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. Changes in the food system are critical to achieving these carbon neutrality goals, as…

Date issued: 9월 2022 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Dumas, Patrice;Wirsenius, Stefan;Searchinger, Tim;Andrieu, Nadine;Vogt-Schilb, Adrien

Once países en América Latina y el Caribe se han comprometido a alcanzar cero emisiones netas hacia el 2050. Los cambios en el sistema alimentario son fundamentales para alcanzar dichos objetivos de…

Date issued: 9월 2022
Author(s): Laguyás, Natalia;Vivanco, Fermín;Carrasco, Carolina;Piedrafita, Carolina;De Ferrari, Camila

Recognizing the widespread concern that disruptions created by technology have not yet benefited middle- and low-income households, this study explores the potential of PropTech to positively impact…

Date issued: 9월 2022
Author(s): Laguyás, Natalia;Vivanco, Fermín;Carrasco, Carolina;Piedrafita, Carolina;De Ferrari, Camila

Reconociendo la preocupación generalizada de que las disrupciones creadas por la tecnología aún no han beneficiado a los hogares de ingresos medios y bajos, este estudio explora el potencial de las…

Date issued: 9월 2022
Author(s): Villalobos Dintrans, Pablo;Oliveira, Déborah;Stampini, Marco

El acelerado proceso de envejecimiento poblacional que experimenta América Latina y el Caribe implicará un aumento en el número de personas mayores con dependencia de cuidados. En este contexto, uno…

Date issued: 9월 2022
Author(s): Gutiérrez, Marta;Sucre, Carlos

Esta nota hace una revisión sistemática de los mecanismos competitivos de adjudicación de áreas geográficas con potencial minero a ser exploradas y/o explotadas que usan países de América Latina y el…

Date issued: 9월 2022 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Mesquita Moreira, Mauricio;Dolabella, Marcelo;Ko, Kwanghee;Choi, Hankyeung;Em, Honggi;Choi, Sungkyu;Kim, Yongseok;Lee, Da Sol;Chicola, Erica

The relationship between Korea and Latin American and the Caribbean has come a long way. As the two economies embraced trade with one another in the early 1990s, their connection went from being…

Date issued: 9월 2022 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Mesquita Moreira, Mauricio;Dolabella, Marcelo;Ko, Kwanghee;Choi, Hankyeung;Em, Honggi;Choi, Sungkyu;Kim, Yongseok;Lee, Da Sol;Chicola, Erica

La relación entre Corea y América Latina y el Caribe ha evolucionado mucho. Ambas economías se abrieron a comerciar entre sí a principios de la década de 1990, y sus vínculos pasaron de ser…

Date issued: 9월 2022 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Mesquita Moreira, Mauricio;Dolabella, Marcelo;Ko, Kwanghee;Choi, Hankyeung;Em, Honggi;Choi, Sungkyu;Kim, Yongseok;Lee, Da Sol;Chicola, Erica

The relationship between Korea and Latin American and the Caribbean has come a long way. As the two economies embraced trade with one another in the early 1990s, their connection went from being…

Date issued: 9월 2022
Author(s): Alarcon Lopez, Luis Guillermo;Ayala Roa, Mauricio;Marques da Costa Jacomassi, Eduardo

Uncertainty in measuring digital gaps is a major obstacle that prevents the extension of digital connectivity in rural areas. This document describes a new methodology that, through crowdsourcing,…

Date issued: 9월 2022
Author(s): Alarcon Lopez, Luis Guillermo;Ayala Roa, Mauricio;Marques da Costa Jacomassi, Eduardo

La incertidumbre al medir las brechas digitales representa un obstáculo importante que impide la extensión de la conectividad digital en zonas rurales. Este documento describe una nueva metodología…

Date issued: 9월 2022
Author(s): Alarcon Lopez, Luis Guillermo;Ayala Roa, Mauricio;Marques da Costa Jacomassi, Eduardo

Les incertitudes existant au moment de mesurer les fractures numériques constituent lun des obstacles majeurs empchant lextension de la connectivité numérique en zones rurales. Ce document propose…

Date issued: 9월 2022
Author(s): Alarcon Lopez, Luis Guillermo;Ayala Roa, Mauricio;Marques da Costa Jacomassi, Eduardo

A incerteza na medição das lacunas digitais constitui um grande obstáculo à expansão da conectividade digital para as zonas rurais. Este documento descreve uma nova metodologia que, por meio do…

Date issued: 9월 2022
Author(s): Kaleagasi, Bartu;McCarthy, Sean;Beaumont, Peter

This publication presents six case studies of public policies that promote the development and use of geospatial technologies and applications, which can be categorized in five layers: institutions,…

Date issued: 9월 2022
Author(s): Kaleagasi, Bartu;McCarthy, Sean;Beaumont, Peter

Las tecnologías y aplicaciones geoespaciales han evolucionado rápidamente en la última década. El impulso de dicha evolución proviene de reconocer que es fundamental saber dónde se encuentran las…

Date issued: 9월 2022 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Elacqua, Gregory;Gómez, Leidy;Krussig, Thomas;Marotta, Luana;Méndez, Carolina;Neilson, Christopher

This paper studies the potential of personalized "smart" information interventions to improve teacher assignment results in the context of a centralized choice and assignment system (CCAS)…

Date issued: 9월 2022
Author(s): Elías, Alison;Granada, Isabel;Näslund-Hadley, Emma;Ortiz, Paola;Romero, Jimena;Dávalos, Adela

In recent decades, many countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have experienced large movements of people fleeing from extreme poverty, situations of violence or socioeconomic, political…