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Date issued: Dez 2018
Author(s): Carvalho Metanias Hallack, Michelle;Vazquez, Miguel;Mejdalani, Alexandre Novaes;López Soto, David Daniel;Mendes e Costa, Roberta

La electrificación escolar puede disminuir la brecha entre la educación rural y urbana. Los programas de electrificación rural, como Luz para Todos en Brasil, han tenido éxito en aumentar el acceso a…

Date issued: Dez 2018
Author(s): Hansz, Martín;Hernández, Diego;Rubinstein da Silva, Elias

La planificación del transporte urbano se ha desarrollado tradicionalmente sobre la base de modelos analíticos centrados en la movilidad observada, esto es, en los desplazamientos y sus…

Date issued: Dez 2018
Author(s): Verhulst, Stefaan G.;Young, Andrew

Across the world, significant time and resources are being invested in making government data accessible to all with the broad goal of improving people’s lives. Evidence of open data’s impact - on…

Date issued: Dez 2018 IA generativa habilitada
Author(s): Lema, Daniel;Gallacher, Marcos;Egas, Juan José;De Salvo, Carmine Paolo

Este informe analiza la política agrícola argentina, particularmente lo relacionado al nivel de apoyo brindado a los productores y consumidores. A manera de contexto, el informe comienza con un…

Date issued: Dez 2018 IA generativa habilitada
Author(s): Lema, Daniel;Gallacher, Marcos;Egas, Juan José;De Salvo, Carmine Paolo

This report analyzes agricultural policy in Argentina, in particular with respect to the degree of support producers and consumers receive. Available evidence suggests that: (i) as a result of export…

Date issued: Dez 2018
Author(s): Demaestri, Edgardo C.;Moskovits, Cynthia;Chiara, Jimena

This paper discusses the main issues concerning sovereign fiscal and financial risks from public–private partnerships (PPPs) with a focus on contingent liabilities (CLs). It is based on the…

Date issued: Dez 2018 IA generativa habilitada
Author(s): Banuri, Sheheryar;Keefer, Philip;Walque, Damien de

A booming literature has argued that mission-based motives are a central feature of mission-oriented labor markets. This paper shifts the focus to task-based motivation and finds that it yields…

Date issued: Dez 2018
Author(s): Schmid, Juan Pedro;Schwartz, Moises;Zegarra, Maria Alejandra;Wright, Allan;Giles Álvarez, Laura;Waithe, Kimberly;Gauto, Victor;Bollers, Elton;Mooney, Henry;Khadan, Jeetendra;Smets, Lodewijk

The divergence in the development of the countries that correspond to the Inter-American Development Bank’s Caribbean Country Department and the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS)…

Date issued: Dez 2018
Author(s): Pereira Dos Santos, Pablo

Guarantees are powerful tools to scale up private investment in infrastructure and enhance the catalytic role Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) play in mobilizing private resources to bridge the…

Date issued: Dez 2018 IA generativa habilitada
Author(s): Mitnik, Oscar A.;Sanchez, Raul;Yáñez-Pagans, Patricia

This paper quantifies the impacts of transport infrastructure investments on economic activity in Haiti, proxied by satellite luminosity data. Our identification strategy exploits the differential…

Date issued: Dez 2018
Author(s): Lotti, Giulia;Avellán, Leopoldo;Goncalves Cavalcanti, Vitor;Cossens, Shakirah

This Technical Note aims to analyze project characteristics associated with problems in execution as reported in the Progress Monitoring Report (PMR), a tool used by the Inter-American Development…

Date issued: Dez 2018
Author(s): Schmid, Juan Pedro;Waithe, Kimberly;Lorde, Kishmar

The Barbados economy has been challenged over the last decade by elevated fiscal deficits and a rapid build-up in debt. While the country has made efforts to address this challenge through revenue…

Date issued: Dez 2018
Author(s): Jaitman, Laura

This paper uses the crime economics framework to shed light on the main drivers of crime and proposes avenues for future research and action in the region to reduce crime and its social and economic…

Date issued: Dez 2018
Author(s): Caruso Bloeck, Martín;Galiani, Sebastián;Weinschelbaum, Federico

This paper studies the relative effectiveness of these and other mechanisms by way of a formal model in which workers choose between job opportunities in the formal and informal sectors. Although the…

Date issued: Dez 2018 IA generativa habilitada
Author(s): Martinez, Sebastian;Sanchez, Raul;Yáñez-Pagans, Patricia

This paper studies the effects of areal cable cars on mode of transport, time use and employment in the metropolitan area of La Paz, Bolivia. Using an instrumental variables approach, we estimate…

Date issued: Dez 2018
Author(s): Souto, Gonzalo;Tommasino, Humberto;Errea, Eduardo;Sáder, Mayid

En este volumen se realiza un relevamiento de las principals cadenas agroindustriales del país, enfatizando en los movimientos de cargas que se realizan a lo cadena de valor, la logística utilizada,…

Date issued: Dez 2018
Author(s): Antón, Arturo;Rasteletti, Alejandro

En este documento se presenta un modelo de equilibrio general estático de decisión ocupacional con heterogeneidad en habilidades laborales y empresariales, capaz de generar elevados niveles de…

Date issued: Dez 2018
Author(s): Bos, María Soledad;Vegas, Emiliana;Viteri, Adriana;Zoido, Pablo

Esta nota presenta los resultados de la evaluación PISA-D en Guatemala, incluye los resultados del estudio a escala nacional. Uno de cada tres jóvenes de 15 años abandonó el sistema escolar, y la…

Date issued: Dez 2018
Author(s): Muñoz Miranda, Andrés;Martínez-Vázquez, Jorge

This paper argues that the need for metropolitan-wide government is higher the larger the unrealized benefits from economies of scale and externalities. It contends that there is no trade-off between…

Date issued: Dez 2018 IA generativa habilitada
Author(s): Barnes, Douglas F.;Samad, Hussain

Impact evaluation has gained recognition over the last decade as an essential component of project development. Impact evaluation details how and to what extent policies and project interventions…

Date issued: Dez 2018
Author(s): Passos, Mauro;Alarcon Rodriguez, Arturo Daniel;Dalaison, Wilhelm

+ SOL + LUZ põe na mão de qualquer pessoa, numa linguagem e formato simples, as respostas a muitas das inquietudes em relação ao que são sistemas fotovoltaicos, como funcionam, por que utilizá-los,…

Date issued: Dez 2018 IA generativa habilitada
Author(s): Celhay, Pablo;Martinez, Sebastian;Vidal, Cecilia

This paper examines gaps in child development by socioeconomic status (SES) using a large nationally representative sample of children 0–59 months old in Bolivia and a rich set of child health and…

Date issued: Dez 2018
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

The 2018 third 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: Dez 2018
Author(s): Minoja, Livia;Fernández, Luz;Yurivilca, Rossemary

The guidelines, addressed to team leaders and executors, explain how buildings, both of social infrastructure and other sectors, can contribute to meeting the 30% goal of climate financing that the…

Date issued: Dez 2018
Author(s): Minoja, Livia;Fernández, Luz;Yurivilca, Rossemary

Los lineamientos, dirigidos a los jefes de equipo y los ejecutores, explican cómo los edificios, tanto de infraestructura social como de otros sectores, pueden contribuir al cumplimiento de la meta…