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Date issued: jan 2024
Author(s): Hallerberg, Mark;Scartascini, Carlos

Las crisis económicas pueden favorecer las reformas de las reglas fiscales, ya sea porque aumentan el costo de mantener los desequilibrios fiscales o porque estos desequilibrios están en el origen de…

Date issued: jan 2024 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Gomez-Gonzalez, Jose E.;Uribe, Jorge M.;Valencia, Oscar

This paper investigates how a country's economic complexity influences its sovereign yield spread with respect to the United States. Notably, a one-unit increase in the Economic Complexity Index…

Date issued: jan 2024
Author(s): Malamud, Ofer;Cueto, Santiago;Cristia, Julian P.;Beuermann, Diether

In Latin America and the Caribbean, there exists an important digital divide which can have important implications for children's educational development. In particular, many children in the…

Date issued: jan 2024
Author(s): Malamud, Ofer;Cueto, Santiago;Cristia, Julian P.;Beuermann, Diether

Proveer acceso a Internet en el hogar aumentó las habilidades de uso de computadoras e Internet de estudiantes de Perú. No se detectaron efectos significativos del acceso a Internet en rendimiento…

Date issued: jan 2024
Author(s): Latin American and Caribbean Public Debt Management Specialists Group

This database compiles current standardized statistics on sovereign debt issuances for the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region and contains biannual data starting in 2006 through June 2023.…

Date issued: jan 2024 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Ito, Rodrigo;Chavarro, Diego;Ciarli, Tommaso;Cowan, Robin;Visentin, Fabiana

Studying and working abroad, internationally mobile scientists meet foreign scientists and become carriers of knowledge. The benefits of international scientific mobility might extend to nonmobile…

Date issued: jan 2024 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Duryea, Suzanne;Martínez, Claudia;Smith, Raimundo

We study the effects of a new 1% employment quota enacted in Chile in 2018 using anonymized administrative data on monthly employer-employee linkages and disability certification records. Our firm-…

Date issued: jan 2024 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Estevez, Elsa;Janowski, Tomasz;Roseth, Benjamin

Government organizations worldwide are harvesting the transformative potential of digital technologies to automate interactions with citizens, businesses, and each other. Automation can bring…

Date issued: jan 2024
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank;IDB Lab;IDB Invest

Two of the development challenges that Belize has recently worked on, with support from the IDB Group, are vulnerability to climate change and educational quality. The measures implemented on both…

Date issued: jan 2024 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Martinez-Espiñeira, Roberto;Pérez Urdiales, María

Standard water affordability measures that only account for expenditure on piped water are unlikely to adequately capture the situation of all consumers in developing countries, who often experience…