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Date issued: apr 2017
Author(s): United Nations;World Bank;New Development Bank;Islamic Development Bank;Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank;Asian Development Bank;African Development Bank;Inter-American Development Bank;European Investment Bank;European Bank for Reconstruction and Development;International Finance Corporation

Closing the world's infrastructure gap would take $1 to $1.5 trillion annually. The Global Infrastructure Forum aims to discuss opportunities to harness public and private resources to close…

Date issued: apr 2017
Author(s): Mercer;Inter-American Development Bank

The world needs more infrastructure, particularly in developing countries. But not just any infrastructure. To achieve the economic, social and environmental objectives embodied by the Paris…

Date issued: apr 2017 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Rivera León, Lorena;Mairesse, Jacques;Cowan, Robin

This paper provides evidence of the existence and determinants of the publication productivity gender gap in Mexico at the individual level, and its consequences for the Mexican scientific system and…

Date issued: apr 2017 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Buonanno, Paolo;Vargas, Juan F.

Estimating the effect of inequality on crime is challenging due to reversecausality and omitted variable bias. This paper addresses these concerns by exploiting the fact that, as suggested by recent…

Date issued: apr 2017 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): López, César Augusto;Salazar, Lina;De Salvo, Carmine Paolo

It is a well-known fact that a great majority of countries implement agricultural input subsidies as a tool to boost agricultural productivity and output. However, even though this practice is widely…

Date issued: apr 2017 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): López, César Augusto;Salazar, Lina;De Salvo, Carmine Paolo

Es sabido que una gran mayoría de países implementan subsidios a los insumos agrícolas como una herramienta para estimular la productividad y producción agrícola. Sin embargo, a pesar de que esta es…

Date issued: apr 2017
Author(s): Agüero, Jorge M.;Frisancho, Verónica

Violence against women takes place mainly in the private sphere and isperpetrated by people close to the victim. These features can introduce large
biases into its reporting in specialized…

Date issued: apr 2017 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Carrillo, Paul E.;Castro, Edgar;Scartascini, Carlos

This paper evaluates the effect of positive inducements on tax behavior by exploiting a natural experiment in which a municipality of Argentina randomly selected 400 individuals among more than 72,…

Date issued: apr 2017 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Carlino, Hernán;Netto, Maria;Cabrera, María Margarita

El BID se encuentra apoyando a la Agencia Financiera de Desarrollo de Paraguay (AFD) en su rol de promoción de una transición hacia una economía verde y sostenible en el Paraguay, en particular en el…

Date issued: apr 2017 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Carlino, Hernán;Netto, Maria;Cabrera, María Margarita

El BID se encuentra apoyando a la Agencia Financiera de Desarrollo de Paraguay (AFD) en su rol de promoción de una transición hacia una economía verde y sostenible en el Paraguay, en particular en el…