Historia e investigación de un modelo para recuperar y empoderar vidas
Feb 2024 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Berenzon Gorn, Shoshana;Prado Hernández, Patricia;Fuentes A., Patricia María del Carmen;Rodríguez, Eva Ma.;Galván, Jorge;López, Arnoldo;Méndez Rolón, Emmanuel;Rodríguez Caballero, Carlos Vladimir;Ruíz, Eunice;Vega, Leticia
Se presenta un modelo de atención integral para rehabilitar y reincorporar a la sociedad y a una vida sana y productiva a jóvenes sobrevivientes de trata con fines de explotación sexual comercial. El…
Financial Development, Growth, and Inequality: The Role of Institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean
Feb 2024 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Beck, Thorsten;Fernández Díez, María Carmen;Támola, Alejandro
This publication explores the relationships between institutions, financial development, and income inequality. It assesses the extent of reforms that can promote financial development and argues…
Desarrollo financiero, crecimiento y desigualdad: el rol de las instituciones en América Latina y el Caribe
Feb 2024 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Beck, Thorsten;Fernández Díez, María Carmen;Támola, Alejandro
Esta publicación explora las relaciones entre instituciones, desarrollo financiero y desigualdad del ingreso. Evalúa el alcance de las reformas que pueden promover el desarrollo financiero y sostiene…
Rumbo a una inversión pública resiliente y descarbonizada: prácticas de integración de la acción climática en la gestión de la inversión pública
Feb 2024 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Eguino, Huáscar;Delgado, Raúl;Buttazzoni, Marco;Alvarenga, Marcio;Palomo, Lorena;Cartes, Fernando;Salinas, Marcela;Ruiz, Laura;Aguilar, Juan Carlos
La inversión pública puede ser un instrumento poderoso para enfrentar los desafíos de la mitigación y adaptación al cambio climático, apoyar la transición hacia economías bajas en carbono y…
What Works to Improve Lives?: What Works to Foster Productive Sector Development
Feb 2024 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Crespi, Gustavo;Gerardino, María Paula;Goñi Pacchioni, Edwin A.;Mitnik, Oscar A.;Stucchi, Rodolfo;Volpe Martincus, Christian
This publication is one of a series of five monographs produced by the Inter-American Development Bank to take stock of the lessons learned from impact evaluations of investments supported by the IDB…
¿Qué funciona para mejorar vidas?: qué funciona para promover el desarrollo del sector productivo
Feb 2024 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Crespi, Gustavo;Gerardino, María Paula;Goñi Pacchioni, Edwin A.;Mitnik, Oscar A.;Stucchi, Rodolfo;Volpe Martincus, Christian
Esta publicación es una serie de cinco monografías producidas por el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo para hacer inventario de las lecciones aprendidas de las evaluaciones de impacto de las…
Taxation when Markets are not Competitive: Evidence from a Loan Tax
Feb 2024 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Brugués, Felipe;De Simone, Rebeca
We study the interaction of market structure and tax-and-subsidy strategies utilizing pass-through estimates from the unexpected introduction of a loan tax in Ecuador, a quantitative model, and a…
Impacto de la conectividad digital en hogares liderados por mujeres, individuos de pueblos indígenas o afrodescendientes en Perú
Feb 2024 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Katz, Raúl;Barrantes, Roxana;Agüero, Aileen;Valencia, Ramiro;Burneo, José;Soberón, Alexandra;Duffó, Ana;Callorda, Fernando;Puig Gabarró, Pau;García Zaballos, Antonio;Iglesias Rodriguez, Enrique;Dalio, Maribel
El objetivo de este documento es presentar el efecto socioeconómico de las tecnologías digitales (uso de Internet o computadora y tenencia de celular) en Perú, abordando el análisis tanto desde un…
The Interaction of Economic and Political Inequality in Latin America
Feb 2024 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Fergusson, Leopoldo;Robinson, James;Torres, Santiago
We investigate how economic inequality can persist in Latin America in the context of radical falls in political inequality in the last decades. Using data from Colombia, we focus on a critical facet…
BIDeconomics El Salvador: panorama de oportunidades
Feb 2024 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Contreras, Diana;Ochoa, Elizabeth;Zentner, Joaquín
El Salvador continúa superando desafíos estructurales en su camino hacia el desarrollo. Entre 2019 y 2022, la economía mostró un crecimiento promedio modesto del 2,1%, destacando barreras como baja…
BIDeconomics Panamá: panorama de oportunidades
Feb 2024 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Barrios, Juan José;Rodríguez, Rubilú;Bermudez, Tomas
Panamá es un referente de crecimiento para América Latina y el Caribe. Cerca de 6 por ciento ha sido el incremento promedio anual de su PIB entre 2000 y 2019. Incluso, pese a los desafíos…
Increasing Road Safety in Latin America and the Caribbean: Lessons from Behavioral Economics
Feb 2024 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Ramírez, Indhira;Scartascini, Carlos
Road crashes are a significant public health issue in Latin America and the Caribbean, resulting in a staggering toll of approximately 110,000 fatalities and over 5 million injuries annually. These…
Cómo aumentar la seguridad vial en América Latina y el Caribe: lecciones de la economía del comportamiento
Feb 2024 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Ramírez, Indhira;Scartascini, Carlos
Los accidentes de tráfico son un problema de salud pública importante en América Latina y el Caribe, que se cobra la increíble cifra de aproximadamente 110.000 víctimas mortales y más de 5 millones…
An Ounce of Prevention for a Pound of Cure: Basic Health Care and Efficiency in Health Systems
Jan 2024 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Bancalari, Antonella;Bernal, Pedro;Celhay, Pablo;Martinez, Sebastian;Sánchez, María Deni
We examine the efficiency gains in health systems generated after the national roll out of basic healthcare in El Salvador between 2010 and 2013. Using data from over 120 million consultations and…
Sovereign Risk and Economic Complexity
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…
When Does Automation in Government Thrive or Flounder?
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…
Disability Employment Quotas: Effects of Laws and Nudges
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-…
Connecting the Dots: The Role of Internationally Mobile Scientists in Linking Nonmobile with Foreign Scientists
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…
Water Affordability Measures Under Multiple and Non-Exclusive Sources in Latin America and the Caribbean
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…
The Promises of Digital Bank Accounts for Low-income Individuals
Jan 2024 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Hernández Romero, Karla;Vera-Cossio, Diego A.;Hoffmann, Bridget;Pecha, Camilo
The push for adopting digital modes of payment rests on three promises: increased efficiency of transactions, increased financial inclusion, and improvements in the financial well-being of low-income…