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Date issued:
May 2017
INTAL Connection informs on developments on integration and trade in Latin America and the Caribbean. This issue focuses on the seminar “Artificial meat: innovation in the era of production 4.0”,…
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May 2017
Conexión INTAL informa sobre desarrollos en las áreas de integración y comercio en las regiones de América Latina y el Caribe. Esta edición se dedica al seminario “Carne artificial: la innovación en…
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Apr 2017
This report describes some innovative financing products for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and entrepreneurs, with a special focus on “micro investment crowdfunding,” in Japan where a…
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Apr 2017
This document complements “Empathy Driven Funding: New frontier of financing small businesses,” presenting three cases where micro investment crowdfunding platform has been employed by local…
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Apr 2017
This annex complements “Empathy Driven Funding: New frontier of financing small businesses,” providing detailed information on non-financial additionalities, fee structures, regulatory framework and…
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Apr 2017
The objective of the evaluation is to analyze the production, use and influence of the Impact Evaluations (IE) included in IDB loan, technical cooperation (TC), and economic and sector work (ESW)…
Date issued:
Apr 2017
El objetivo de la evaluación es analizar la producción, el uso y la influenciade las evaluaciones de impacto contempladas en las operaciones de
préstamo y de cooperación técnica y las…
préstamo y de cooperación técnica y las…
Date issued:
Apr 2017
This policy brief answers three main questions with respect to the no-user-fee policy adopted across public health centres in Jamaica: (i) Has the policy improved health status among working age…
Date issued:
Apr 2017
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We study the determinants of math achievement among children in early elementary school using data from a unique experiment. We find steep socioeconomic gradients and a substantial boy-girl gap in…
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Apr 2017
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This paper evaluates whether fiscal and foreign exchange policy shocks canexplain both credit and credit supply in Venezuela. Empirical evidence suggests that between 65 and 90 percent of credit…
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Apr 2017
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This study analyzes the effects of "financial stress" on the Uruguayan macroeconomy in the 1998Q3-2016Q2 period with the underlying idea that financial shocks propagate differently during…
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Apr 2017
En este documento se describen intervenciones de política pública en el sector agroalimentario y en el sector rural orientadas a mejorar el acceso al financiamiento, como factor clave para lograr los…
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Apr 2017
Las APP son una modalidad de ejecución complementaria con los esquemas tradicionales, por lo que deben ser consistentes con los sistemas de planificación y preparación de proyectos de inversión…
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Apr 2017
Graduate XXI explora iniciativas y tendencias innovadoras en educación para enfrentar el abandono escolar y las desigualdades sociales que azotan América Latina. Este documento forma parte de esa…
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Apr 2017
This paper assesses the LAC's import substitution response to the recent wave of currency devaluations. For this purpose, this document uses both descriptive data and a simple econometric model…
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Apr 2017
Closing the world's infrastructure gap would take $1 to $1.5 trillion annually. The Global Infrastructure Forum aims to discuss opportunities to harness public and private resources to close…
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Apr 2017
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Estimating the effect of inequality on crime is challenging due to reversecausality and omitted variable bias. This paper addresses these concerns by exploiting the fact that, as suggested by recent…
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Apr 2017
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This paper provides evidence of the existence and determinants of the publication productivity gender gap in Mexico at the individual level, and its consequences for the Mexican scientific system and…
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Apr 2017
The world needs more infrastructure, particularly in developing countries. But not just any infrastructure. To achieve the economic, social and environmental objectives embodied by the Paris…
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Apr 2017
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It is a well-known fact that a great majority of countries implement agricultural input subsidies as a tool to boost agricultural productivity and output. However, even though this practice is widely…
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Apr 2017
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Es sabido que una gran mayoría de países implementan subsidios a los insumos agrícolas como una herramienta para estimular la productividad y producción agrícola. Sin embargo, a pesar de que esta es…
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Apr 2017
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This paper evaluates the effect of positive inducements on tax behavior by exploiting a natural experiment in which a municipality of Argentina randomly selected 400 individuals among more than 72,…
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Apr 2017
Violence against women takes place mainly in the private sphere and isperpetrated by people close to the victim. These features can introduce large
biases into its reporting in specialized…
biases into its reporting in specialized…
Date issued:
Apr 2017
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Generative AI enabled
El BID se encuentra apoyando a la Agencia Financiera de Desarrollo de Paraguay (AFD) en su rol de promoción de una transición hacia una economía verde y sostenible en el Paraguay, en particular en el…
Date issued:
Apr 2017
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Generative AI enabled
El BID se encuentra apoyando a la Agencia Financiera de Desarrollo de Paraguay (AFD) en su rol de promoción de una transición hacia una economía verde y sostenible en el Paraguay, en particular en el…