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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…