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Date issued: nov 2016
Author(s): Bueso-Merriam, Jacqueline;Demichelis, Francisco;Fernández Díez, María Carmen;Giuliodori, David;Rodríguez, Alejandro;Stucchi, Rodolfo

A shortcoming of the current empirical impact evaluation literature is the lack of studies that measure the effect of access to credit in the medium and long term, as well as the impact on…

Date issued: nov 2016
Author(s): Bueso-Merriam, Jacqueline;Demichelis, Francisco;Fernández Díez, María Carmen;Giuliodori, David;Rodríguez, Alejandro;Stucchi, Rodolfo

Una limitación de la literatura empírica actual sobre evaluación de impacto es la carencia de estudios que midan los impactos del crédito en el mediano y largo plazo, así como en los tipos de…

Date issued: okt 2016 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Barajas, Adolfo;Restrepo, Sergio;Steiner, Roberto;Medellín, Juan Camilo;Pabón, César

After building up foreign currency-denominated (FC) liabilities over several years, the balance sheets of Colombian firms might be particularly vulnerable to a shift in external conditions. This…

Date issued: okt 2016
Author(s): Salo, James

Micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) are major sources of natural resource consumption and environmental impacts such as greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. At the same time, MSMEs make up a…

Date issued: okt 2016
Author(s): Salo, James

Managing value chain environmental impacts and natural resource use has become an important consideration in the purchasing decisions of large publicly traded companies. Suppliers, including micro,…

Date issued: okt 2016 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Freund, Caroline;Pierola, Martha Denisse

This paper uses firm-level data on manufacturing trade from 40 developing countries to explore how the five largest exporters in a country contribute to export growth and diversification. The origins…

Date issued: okt 2016
Author(s): Stampini, Marco;Martinez-Cordova, Sofia;Insfran, Sebastian;Harris, Donna Oretha

We explored the hypothesis that the Programme of Advancement through Health and Education (PATH), Jamaica's conditional cash transfer program, contributes to breaking the inter-generational…

Date issued: okt 2016
Author(s): Stampini, Marco;Martinez-Cordova, Sofia;Insfran, Sebastian;Harris, Donna Oretha

Exploramos la hipótesis de que el Programa de Transferencia Monetaria Condicionada de Jamaica, Programa de Avance a través de la Salud y Educación (PATH, por sus siglas en inglés), contribuye a…

Date issued: okt 2016
Author(s): Bancalari, Antonella;Gertner, Gastón;Martinez, Sebastian

El acceso a soluciones de saneamiento mejorado y a fuentes de agua segura continúa siendo uno de los principales desafíos de política pública en Bolivia. Según la información del último censo de 2012…

Date issued: okt 2016
Author(s): Bustelo, Monserrat;Martinez, Sebastian;Pérez, Michelle;Rodríguez Silva, Julio

Ciudad Mujer (CM) es un programa liderado por el Gobierno de El Salvador a través de la Secretaría de Inclusión Social (SIS) con el apoyo del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID), que pretende…

Date issued: okt 2016 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Ellingstad, Paul;Love, Charmian

This briefing paper provides a look at corporate venturing-related activities underway specifically in the Caribbean, and opportunities in this area moving forward.

Date issued: okt 2016
Author(s): Shik, Olga;Boyce, Rachel;De Salvo, Carmine Paolo;Kim, Namho

Around the world, government agricultural policies often make the prices paid by consumers much higher or lower than they would be without policy interventions. Here is a look at the latest available…

Date issued: okt 2016
Author(s): Shik, Olga;Boyce, Rachel;De Salvo, Carmine Paolo;Kim, Namho

Around the world, government agricultural policies often make the prices paid by consumers much higher or lower than they would be without policy interventions. Here is a look at the latest available…

Date issued: okt 2016
Author(s): Shik, Olga;Boyce, Rachel;De Salvo, Carmine Paolo;Kim, Namho

Around the world, government agricultural policies often make the prices paid by consumers much higher or lower than they would be without policy interventions. Here is a look at the latest available…

Date issued: okt 2016
Author(s): Shik, Olga;Boyce, Rachel;De Salvo, Carmine Paolo;Kim, Namho

Around the world, government agricultural policies often make the prices paid by consumers much higher or lower than they would be without policy interventions. Here is a look at the latest available…

Date issued: okt 2016
Author(s): Shik, Olga;Boyce, Rachel;De Salvo, Carmine Paolo;Kim, Namho

Around the world, government agricultural policies often make the prices paid by consumers much higher or lower than they would be without policy interventions. Here is a look at the latest available…

Date issued: okt 2016
Author(s): Shik, Olga;Boyce, Rachel;De Salvo, Carmine Paolo;Kim, Namho

Around the world, government agricultural policies often make the prices paid by consumers much higher or lower than they would be without policy interventions. Here is a look at the latest available…

Date issued: okt 2016
Author(s): Shik, Olga;Boyce, Rachel;De Salvo, Carmine Paolo;Kim, Namho

Around the world, government agricultural policies often make the prices paid by consumers much higher or lower than they would be without policy interventions. Here is a look at the latest available…

Date issued: okt 2016
Author(s): Shik, Olga;Boyce, Rachel;De Salvo, Carmine Paolo;Kim, Namho

Around the world, government agricultural policies often make the prices paid by consumers much higher or lower than they would be without policy interventions. Here is a look at the latest available…

Date issued: okt 2016
Author(s): Shik, Olga;Boyce, Rachel;De Salvo, Carmine Paolo;Kim, Namho

Around the world, government agricultural policies often make the prices paid by consumers much higher or lower than they would be without policy interventions. Here is a look at the latest available…

Date issued: okt 2016
Author(s): Shik, Olga;Boyce, Rachel;De Salvo, Carmine Paolo;Kim, Namho

Around the world, government agricultural policies often make the prices paid by consumers much higher or lower than they would be without policy interventions. Here is a look at the latest available…

Date issued: okt 2016
Author(s): Sosa, Mariano;Powell, Andrew

The July 2016 surveys of expectations conducted by Central Banks with inflation targeting regimes indicate that the simple average growth rate expected for 2016 for the eight countries covered by…

Date issued: okt 2016
Author(s): Salazar, Lina;Balcázar, Fernando;Tarre, Alejandro;Aramburu, Julián;Serebrisky, Tomás;Ramirez, Maria Cecilia;Suárez-Alemán, Ancor

A través de esta serie de casos de estudio, el Departamento de Infraestructura y Energía del BID pretende dar a conocer su trabajo en la región, los problemas que aborda, los retos en la…

Date issued: okt 2016
Author(s): Gischler, Christiaan;Tarre, Alejandro;Serebrisky, Tomás;Ramirez, Maria Cecilia;Suárez-Alemán, Ancor

A través de esta serie de casos de estudio, el Departamento de Infraestructura y Energía del BID pretende dar a conocer su trabajo en la región, los problemas que aborda, los retos en la…

Date issued: okt 2016
Author(s): Mitnik, Oscar A.;Ripani, Laura;Rosas-Shady, David

The evidence on the effectiveness of youth training programs in Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC) tends to be encouraging regarding the quality of employment of beneficiaries (positive impacts…