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Date issued: feb 2021 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Arbeláez, María Angélica;Benítez, Miguel;Steiner, Roberto;Valencia, Oscar

In order to enhance fiscal sustainability and regain “investment grade” credit rating, in 2011 Colombia implemented a fiscal rule (FR) on the Central Government's structural balance. Investment…

Date issued: feb 2021
Author(s): Savedoff, William D.;Pinto, Diana M.;Goyeneche, Laura

Las pruebas y el rastreo de contactos son la columna vertebral de una respuesta eficaz del sistema de salud ante una epidemia. Sin embargo, en el caso del COVID-19, aunque la comunidad científica…

Date issued: feb 2021
Author(s): Loukos, Panos;Arathoon, Leslie

Agriculture is an important source of employment in Latin America and the Caribbean. In rural areas, some 54.6 per cent of the labor force is engaged in agricultural production. Although much of the…

Date issued: feb 2021
Author(s): Loukos, Panos;Arathoon, Leslie

La agricultura es una fuente importante de trabajo en América Latina y el Caribe, en particular en zonas rurales en las que el 54,6 por ciento de la mano de obra está involucrada en la producción…

Date issued: feb 2021
Author(s): Scartascini, Carlos;Cruz, Cesi;Keefer, Philip

The Database of Political Institutions presents institutional and electoral results data such as measures of checks and balances, tenure and stability of the government, identification of party…

Date issued: feb 2021
Author(s): Gingerich, Daniel;Scartascini, Carlos

Anti-crime policy preferences can be swayed by the framing of crime rate information. Both framing information as an upward trend in crime or a downward trend in crime increased demands for punitive…

Date issued: feb 2021
Author(s): Gingerich, Daniel;Scartascini, Carlos

Las preferencias por las políticas contra la delincuencia pueden ser influidas por el encuadre de la información sobre las tasas de delincuencia. Tanto el encuadre de la información que describía una…

Date issued: feb 2021 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Martínez Villarreal, Déborah;Parilli, Cristina;Scartascini, Carlos;Simpser, Alberto

While effective preventive measures against COVID-19 are now widely known, many individuals fail to adopt them. This paper provides experimental evidence about one potentially important driver of…

Date issued: feb 2021 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): We Team;Consumer Goods Forum;GS1 Argentina

El objetivo de este estudio fue cuantificar el impacto de las pérdidas y desperdicios de alimentos en el canal de supermercados y autoservicios de Argentina. El estudio identificó que en 2019, el…

Date issued: feb 2021
Author(s): Carlsson, Mikael;Messina, Julián;Skans, Oskar Nordström

Permanent demand shocks are the main driver of labor adjustments. A one standard deviation demand shock increases the net employment rate by 6 percentage points in the long run, while a technology…