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Date issued: apr 2016
Author(s): Näslund-Hadley, Emma;Ramos, María Clara;Paredes, Juan Roberto;Bolivar, Ángela;Wilches-Chaux, Gustavo

El cambio climático y sus implicaciones para la vida en el planeta presenta enormes desafíos para la humanidad. Hay mucho por hacer y con estos retos también surgen también una serie de oportunidades…

Date issued: apr 2016
Author(s): Ketterer, Juan Antonio;Andrade, Gabriela

Innovations in digital payment technologies and digital currencies suggest that extending access to central bank money (CBM) to firms and individuals is now feasible. This paper focuses on a recent…

Date issued: apr 2016 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Díaz, Juan José;Rosas-Shady, David

This paper brings new evidence on the impact of The Peruvian Job Youth Training Program (Projoven). Compared with prior evaluations of the program, this one has several advantages. This is the first…

Date issued: apr 2016
Author(s): Fondo Multilateral de Inversiones;IE Business School

Los emprendedores y las pequeñas y medianas empresas juegan un rol fundamental en la creación de valor compartido, como protagonistas,pero también como fuentes de información, liderando las nuevas…

Date issued: apr 2016
Author(s): Cruz-Aguayo, Yyannu;Martinez, Sebastian

Development programs that use financial incentives to motivate better performance are increasingly used by governments, multilaterals and private donors as alternatives to traditional input-based…

Date issued: apr 2016 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Eguino, Huáscar;Provedello, Maysa

O objetivo desta publicação é a disseminação dos aprendizados extraídos das operações de desenvolvimento urbano financiadas pelo Banco Interamericano de Desenvolvimento mediante o mecanismo…

Date issued: apr 2016
Author(s): Rivas, Axel;Delgado, Lucas Esteban

Este documento es una guía de las innovaciones educativas que están surgiendo en América Latina a partir del uso intensivo de nuevas tecnologías. Es un mapa que hace posible avistar el futuro, o al…

Date issued: apr 2016 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Molina, Danielken;Heuser, Cecilia;Mesquita Moreira, Mauricio

This document contains the appendices to the study "Infrastructure and Export Performance in the Pacific Alliance". It includes: a) Theoretical Setup, b) Estimation Strategy, c) Transport…

Date issued: apr 2016 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Molina, Danielken;Heuser, Cecilia;Mesquita Moreira, Mauricio

Este documento recoge los apéndices del estudio "Infraestructura y desempeño de las exportaciones en la Alianza del Pacífico". Incluye: a) Marco teórico, b) Estrategia de estimación, c)…

Date issued: apr 2016
Author(s): Lerner, Josh;Tighe, James;Dew, Steve;Bosiljevac, Vladimir;Leamon, Ann;Díez-Amigo, Sandro;Garcia-Robles, Maria Susana

In April 2015, the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF), a member of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Group, commissioned the research team to prepare a report on the effectiveness of some…

Date issued: apr 2016
Author(s): Lerner, Josh;Tighe, James;Dew, Steve;Bosiljevac, Vladimir;Leamon, Ann;Díez-Amigo, Sandro;Garcia-Robles, Maria Susana

In April 2015, the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF), a member of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Group, commissioned the research team to prepare a report on the effectiveness of some…

Date issued: apr 2016
Author(s): Lerner, Josh;Tighe, James;Dew, Steve;Bosiljevac, Vladimir;Leamon, Ann;Díez-Amigo, Sandro;Garcia-Robles, Maria Susana

In April 2015, the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF), a member of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Group, commissioned the research team to prepare a report on the effectiveness of some…

Date issued: apr 2016
Author(s): Lerner, Josh;Tighe, James;Dew, Steve;Bosiljevac, Vladimir;Leamon, Ann;Díez-Amigo, Sandro;Garcia-Robles, Maria Susana

In April 2015, the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF), a member of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Group, commissioned the research team to prepare a report on the effectiveness of some…

Date issued: apr 2016
Author(s): Cruz-Aguayo, Yyannu

The Technical Note "Setting Targets for Results-Based Financing Programs: A Simple Cost Benefit Framework" is accompanied by this Excel tool for the calculation of targets according to the…

Date issued: apr 2016 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Molina, Danielken;Heuser, Cecilia;Mesquita Moreira, Mauricio

The launch of negotiations over the Pacific Alliance (PA) in 2011 gave new life to regional integration in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). With more pragmatic, market-oriented expectations and…

Date issued: apr 2016 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Molina, Danielken;Heuser, Cecilia;Mesquita Moreira, Mauricio

El inicio de las negociaciones sobre la Alianza del Pacífico (AP) en 2011 dio nueva vida al proceso de integración regional de América Latina y el Caribe (ALC). Con expectativas más pragmáticas y…

Date issued: apr 2016 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Gibbons, María Amelia;Maffioli, Alessandro;Rossi, Martín

This paper evaluates the impact of two programs that provide public and private goods, in the form of irrigation canals and materials (such as hail nets). Using a twelve-year panel of wine producers…

Date issued: apr 2016
Author(s): Berstein, Solange;Bosch, Mariano;Oliveri, María Laura

This note, originally prepared as an appendix for the 2016 Development in the Americas Report, Saving for Development, surveys the methodology and assumptions used in the discussion of replacement…

Date issued: apr 2016
Author(s): Riquelme, Rodrigo;Méndez, Paola;Smith, Ianthe

This publication looks into the Solid Waste Sector situation in nine Caribbean countries: The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Jamaica, Guyana, Haiti, Suriname, St Lucia and Trinidad and Tobago. Adequate…

Date issued: apr 2016
Author(s): Dávila Lárraga, Laura G.

The Social Inclusion Program PROSPERA is the Mexico's conditional cash transfer (CCT) program, launched in 2014 after its predecessors: the Program for Human Development Oportunidades, and the…

Date issued: apr 2016
Author(s): Dávila Lárraga, Laura G.

El Programa de Inclusión Social PROSPERA es el programa de transferencias monetarias condicionadas (PTMC) de México, que comenzó en 2014 a partir de sus predecesores: el Programa de Desarrollo Humano…

Date issued: apr 2016
Author(s): Busso, Matías;Fernandez, Andres;Rud, Juan Pablo

This technical note considers whether low savings in Latin America and the Caribbean may result from low productivity rather than vice versa. Economies with low TFP growth tend to be economies in…

Date issued: apr 2016
Author(s): Näslund-Hadley, Emma;Ramos, María Clara;Paredes, Juan Roberto;Bolivar, Ángela;Wilches-Chaux, Gustavo

Once upon a time, there was a place with good soil for plants and good sources of water for wild animals. Many, many plants grew there, and many wild animals made it their home. People liked it too.…

Date issued: apr 2016
Author(s): Näslund-Hadley, Emma;Ramos, María Clara;Paredes, Juan Roberto;Bolivar, Ángela;Wilches-Chaux, Gustavo

Había una vez un lugar con buena tierra para las plantas y abundante agua para los animales salvajes. Muchas plantas y animales vivían y crecían allí. La gente también lo disfrutaba, tanto así que…

Date issued: apr 2016 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): González-Velosa, Carolina;Rosas-Shady, David

Este documento examina el sistema de formación para el trabajo en Colombia. Su definición de formación para el trabajo incorpora distintasmodalidades que se ofrecen actualmente en el país. En primer…