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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): 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): 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 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): 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): 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
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,…