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Aug 2018
In 2010 the IDB’s Board of Governors approved the 9th General Capital Increase (IDB-9), adding $70 billion in paid-in and callable capital to IDB’s existing $100 billion capital base. Governors tied…
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Aug 2018
En 2010, la Asamblea de Gobernadores del BID aprobó el Noveno Aumento General de Capital, que incrementó la base de capital de US$100.000 millones con que contaba el BID en US$70.000 millones en…
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Aug 2018
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The important debate about how economic fluctuations affect employment reallocation in heterogeneous businesses is currently open in the literature. This debate is relevant as it matters for the…
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Aug 2018
This report outlines a range of reforms needed to develop a digital economy and to take advantage of digital trade opportunities. Many of the recommended reforms are domestic in nature, such as…
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Aug 2018
A number of policy discussions in macroeconomics have to do with the impact of commodity price fluctuations on fiscal policy in commodity exporting countries. Commodity price movements, however, have…
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Aug 2018
This paper examines the effect of exposure to air pollution on the probability of a pregnancy ending in a stillbirth delivery. We use official registry data of pregnancy outcomes and municipality-…
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Aug 2018
This paper studies the predictive power of several proxies for liquidity in forecasting exchange rates for a set of countries from January 2001 to April 2013. The results indicate that changes in…
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Aug 2018
Knowledge is transferred between firms explicitly or tacitly. While non-embedded knowledge can be transferred explicitly through patent citations, embedded knowledge is essentially transferred…
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Aug 2018
Decentralizing the allocation of resources to community members is an increasingly popular form of delivering public resources in developing countries. However, this approach is associated with the…
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Aug 2018
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A medida que los programas de visitas continúan expandiéndose, es crucial desarrollar métodos costo-efectivos de monitoreo de su calidad, que sean factibles de aplicación a escala. Este documento…
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Aug 2018
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As home visiting programs continue to expand, it is crucial to develop cost-effective methods to monitor their quality that are feasible at-scale. This paper compares two instruments widely used…
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Aug 2018
Este estudio busca responder a la pregunta de cómo deberían los servicios públicos (domiciliarios) de infraestructura ser objeto de imposición, procediendo a revisar la literatura de imposición…
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Aug 2018
There are several modalities for the elaboration of social infrastructure designs: they can be carried out by the executing unit or other public institution of the borrowing country. Individual…
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Aug 2018
Para la elaboración de diseños de infraestructura social existen varias modalidades: pueden ser realizados por el propio personal de la unidad ejecutora o de otra institución pública del país…
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Aug 2018
Pour le développement de conceptions d'infrastructures sociales, il existe plusieurs modalités : elles peuvent tre réalisées par le personnel de l'unité d'exécution ou d'une autre…
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Aug 2018
Existem várias modalidades para a elaboraço de projetos de infraestrutura social: eles podem ser executados pela unidade executora ou outra instituiço pública do país mutuário, consultores…
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Aug 2018
The selection of the appropriate area for the location is one of the critical aspects that arise at the start of an infrastructure project and has implications throughout its life cycle. This…
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Aug 2018
La selección del sitio adecuado para la ubicación de un edificio es uno de los aspectos críticos que surge en el inicio de un proyecto de infraestructura, y tiene incidencia en el ciclo de vida del…
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Aug 2018
En 2017, les directions des secteurs de l'infrastructure et de l'énergie (INE / INE) et du secteur social (SCL / SCL) ont décidé de créer l'unité "Infrastructures sociales"…
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Aug 2018
A seleção da localização apropriada para a construção de um edifício é um dos aspectos críticos que surge no início de um projeto de infraestrutura e tem implicações ao longo do ciclo de vida do…
A Community-Based Intervention to Prevent Violence against Women and Girls in Haiti: Lessons Learned
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Aug 2018
Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is highly prevalent in Haiti and constitutes a serious public health problem. Social norms promoting power imbalance between women and men and condoning VAWG…
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Aug 2018
Gender segmentation in the labor market is widespread. However, most existing studies of the effects of labor demand shocks on local economies assume away gender. In this paper, I show that local…
Public Education Investment and Local Labor Markets: Evidence from a Large Federal Program in Brazil
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Aug 2018
Do education investments improve regional labor market outcomes? In principle, education could lead to higher local productivity, but potential benefits to local economies could be muted if the…
Date issued:
Aug 2018
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We exploit a hidden Markov model where inflation is determined by government deficits financed through money creation and/or by destabilizing expectations dynamics (expectations can potentially…
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Aug 2018
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This publication covers PPPs with a focus on the implications for public finances in developing economies. Chapter 1 seeks to answer the question of whether PPPs are the “genie in the bottle” for…