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Date issued:
apr 2017
Conexión INTAL informa sobre desarrollos en las áreas de integración y comercio en las regiones de América Latina y el Caribe. Esta edición se dedica al coloquio y presentación del libro “…
Date issued:
apr 2017
Hay aquí diez historias relacionadas con, entre otras cosas, la innovación, la educación, la ciencia y la tecnología en América Latina, contadas por algunos de los mejores periodistas de la región…
Date issued:
mrt 2017
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Earnings inequality declined rapidly in Argentina, Brazil and Chile during the 2000s. A reduction in the experience premium is a fundamental driver of declines in upper-tail (90/50) inequality,…
Date issued:
mrt 2017
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The Gini coefficient of labor earnings in Brazil fell by nearly a fifth between 1995 and 2012, from 0.50 to 0.41. The decline in earnings inequality was even larger by other measures, with the 90-10…
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mrt 2017
So much of our daily business can be done with a swipe or a mouse click. Citizens have come to expect and rely on a certain amount of convenience in their daily lives as technology evolves to suit…
Date issued:
mrt 2017
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Do quality at entry assessments enhance the delivery of development projects? In this paper we take advantage of approval and execution systems in place at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)…
Date issued:
mrt 2017
The 2017 first quarter edition of the Quarterly Business Review (QBR) provides management with a status of the Bank's performance. The QBR reports on outputs, lending program priorities and…
Date issued:
mrt 2017
The 2017 Macroreport considers recent developments in the global economy and how they may affect Latin America and the Caribbean. It reviews how countries are adapting to external conditions and how…
Date issued:
mrt 2017
El Informe Macroeconómico 2017 considera acontecimientos recientes en la economía global y cómo podrían afectar a América Latina y el Caribe. Analiza la forma en que los países se están adaptando a…
Date issued:
mrt 2017
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This paper uses seven nationally representative time use surveys in Latin America to identify key stylized facts regarding the quantity and quality of parental time investment on the skill formation…
Date issued:
mrt 2017
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In-firm training is a crucial innovative activity in modern knowledge-based economies which face increasing global competition and rapidly changing technology. Nevertheless, there are few studies…
Date issued:
mrt 2017
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Twenty years have passed since conditional cash transfer programs were first implemented in Latin America and the Caribbean. This book takes the opportunity to critically review the design options…
Date issued:
mrt 2017
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Los programas de transferencias monetarias condicionadas cumplen veinte años de implementación en América Latina y el Caribe. Este libro aprovecha dicha ocasión para revisar críticamente las opciones…
Date issued:
mrt 2017
This Caribbean Region Quarterly Bulletin explores constraints to private sector development in the Caribbean. With economic growth weak and dependent on only a few sectors -either tourism or…
Date issued:
mrt 2017
The Board of Executive Directors of the Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC) requested that the Office of Evaluation and Oversight (OVE) produce this technical study to inform IIC's…
Date issued:
mrt 2017
El Directorio Ejecutivo de la Corporación Interamericana de Inversiones (CII) pidió a la Oficina de Evaluación y Supervisión OVE que preparara este estudio técnico en apoyo del interés renovado de la…
Date issued:
mrt 2017
Not since the end of World War II have supply chains been as highly exposed to risks as they are now. The Fourth Industrial Revolution poses unprecedented challenges for production and distribution…
Date issued:
mrt 2017
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The effects of capital requirements on risk-taking and welfare are studied in a stochastic overlapping generations model of endogenous growth with banking, limited liability, and government…
Date issued:
mrt 2017
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This paper explores families' investment in skills development through education in a high-inequality, low-education quality country such as Mexico, comparing it to a lower-inequality, higher-…
Date issued:
mrt 2017
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This paper characterizes household spending in education using microdata from income and expenditure surveys for 12 Latin American and Caribbean countries and the United States. Bahamas, Chile and…
Date issued:
mrt 2017
This report highlights the Inter-American Development Bank's sustainability performance in 2016, both in the operations it finances and at its own facilities. It includes examples of Bank-…
Date issued:
mrt 2017
El informe destaca el desempeño del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo en materia de sostenibilidad en 2016, tanto en las operaciones que financia como en sus propias instalaciones. Incluye ejemplos…
Date issued:
mrt 2017
Este informe describe y presenta los resultados del Índice de Desarrollode la Banda Ancha (IDBA) en América Latina y el Caribe (ALC). El principal objetivo del IDBA es medir la brecha digital en la…
Date issued:
mrt 2017
Since the end of the great crisis of 2007-10, the financial services industry began a process of accelerating change. New business models based on convergent technological developments are…
Date issued:
mrt 2017
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To mitigate climate change, some governments opt for instruments focused on investment, like performance standards or feebates, instead of carbon prices. We compare these policies in a Ramsey model…