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Date issued: Feb 2025
Author(s): Dirección Nacional de Ciberseguridad de Israel;Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

Este documento propone prácticas para ayudar a los departamentos profesionales y técnicos de la organización, encargados del escenario de tecnología operativa (TO) y de los sistemas de control…

Date issued: Feb 2025
Author(s): Schlinger, Melissa;VanAusdal, Karen;Schonert-Reichl, Kimberly Anne;Yang, Hyeri Mel;Suarez Enciso, Sonia

Now more than ever, the overall health and well-being of students and educators alike become a global priority for health-care professionals, educators, and families. Socialemotional learning (SEL)…

Date issued: Feb 2025
Author(s): Schlinger, Melissa;VanAusdal, Karen;Schonert-Reichl, Kimberly Anne;Yang, Hyeri Mel;Suarez Enciso, Sonia

Hoy más que nunca, la salud y el bienestar general de estudiantes y educadores se ha convertido en una prioridad global para profesionales de la salud, educadores y familias. Las competencias de…

Date issued: Feb 2025
Author(s): De Michele, Roberto;Alvarez Bollea, María Cecilia;Pieth, Mark;Betz, Kathryn

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has identified the need to develop a set of transparency and integrity principles (TIPs) understood as a series of recommended guidelines or best practices…

Date issued: Feb 2025 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Alviarez, Vanessa;Pedroni, Peter;Powell, Andrew;Quevedo Rocha, Ingri Katherine

This study investigates the disconnect between falling agricultural commodity prices and persistent food inflation by applying a Heterogeneous Vector Autoregression (VAR) model to a panel of 203…

Date issued: Feb 2025 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Díaz, Lina M.;Martínez Villarreal, Déborah;Márquez, Karina;Scartascini, Carlos

Cervical cancer, primarily caused by persistent Human Papillomavirus (HPV) infection, remains one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths among women in developing countries. Although HPV…

Date issued: Feb 2025 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Casacuberta, Carlos;Gandelman, Néstor

This paper examines the relationship between wages and market power at the firm level. We derive firm-specific measures of labor market power and present a natural decomposition of wage changes into…

Date issued: Feb 2025 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Lluberas, Rodrigo

The functioning of the banking sector is key for economic growth. In this paper, we first gather banks' balance sheet monthly regulatory information in a consistent manner for seven Latin…

Date issued: Feb 2025 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Chauvin, Juan Pablo;Rubião, Rafael;Talamas Marcos, Miguel Ángel

Accurate demographic data are essential for effective policy design, yet private costs may deter individuals from truthfully reporting sensitive information. We examine this market failure and its…

Date issued: Feb 2025 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Martínez, Claudia;Smith, Raimundo ;Perticará, Marcela

This study employs an event study methodology to analyze the overall impact of childbirth, as well as the birth of a child with a disability, on the labor market outcomes of mothers and fathers. We…

Date issued: Feb 2025 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Córdoba Solano, Daniela;Gomez-Trejos, Felipe;Vindas Quesada, Alberto

Research about trade liberalization's impact on markups has focused on manufacturing due to data availability considerations. How do these effects vary across sectors? Which industries become…

Date issued: Feb 2025
Author(s): Katz, Raúl;Jung, Juan

El objetivo general de esta publicación es evaluar el impacto socioeconómico del desarrollo de la infraestructura de datos en Colombia. La infraestructura de datos se concibe como los componentes…

Date issued: Feb 2025
Author(s): Katz, Raúl;Jung, Juan

El objetivo de esta publicación es evaluar el impacto socioeconómico del desarrollo de la infraestructura de datos, concebida como los componentes necesarios, su almacenamiento, manipulación y…

Date issued: Feb 2025
Author(s): Beuermann, Diether;Cristia, Julian P.;Malamud, Ofer;Pardo, Francisco

El programa Una Laptop por Niño (OLPC, por sus siglas en inglés), implementado en Perú, no logró mejorar el rendimiento académico ni la trayectoria educativa de los estudiantes. En particular, se…

Date issued: Feb 2025
Author(s): Beuermann, Diether;Cristia, Julian P.;Malamud, Ofer;Pardo, Francisco

The OLPC program, designed by a team at the MIT Media Lab, aimed to improve educational outcomes among low-income primary students around the world by providing affordable personal laptops. The…

Date issued: Feb 2025
Author(s): Juarez, Leticia;Bernini, Federico;García-Lembergman, Ezequiel

Non-Automatic Import Licenses (NAILs) significantly reduce firm imports, leading firms reliant on these imported inputs to decrease exports and employment. In markets where a firm is relatively large…

Date issued: Feb 2025
Author(s): Juarez, Leticia;Bernini, Federico;García-Lembergman, Ezequiel

Las licencias de importación no automáticas (LNA) reducen significativamente las importaciones de las empresas, lo que hace que las empresas que dependen de estos insumos importados reduzcan tanto…

Date issued: Feb 2025
Author(s): Carrasco, Rafael;Fontecilla, Marcelo ;De Padua, Elisa ;Flores, Magdalena

Latin America and the Caribbean are several years behind the learning results of the OECD countries evaluated by PISA. A closer look at educational processes shows an long road ahead towards a…

Date issued: Feb 2025
Author(s): Carrasco, Rafael;Fontecilla, Marcelo ;De Padua, Elisa ;Flores, Magdalena

América Latina y el Caribe están varios años por detrás de los resultados de aprendizaje de los países de la OCDE evaluados por PISA. Una mirada más cercana a los procesos educativos muestra un…

Date issued: Feb 2025
Author(s): Pinto Bernal, Marisol ;Salazar Cota, Adriana;Emendabili, Julia Vieira De Andrade Dias;Rodriguez Paredes, Elizabeth Jesenia;Sanchez Romero, Luis Antonio;Gutierrez, Mariana;Urquijo Vanegas, Lee Harvey;Casco, Mario

This technical note covers the critical aspects of open-source software (OSS) procurement, including general procurement principles and best practices aligned with the policies for the procurement of…

Date issued: Feb 2025
Author(s): Pinto Bernal, Marisol ;Salazar Cota, Adriana;Emendabili, Julia Vieira De Andrade Dias;Rodriguez Paredes, Elizabeth Jesenia;Sanchez Romero, Luis Antonio;Gutierrez, Mariana;Urquijo Vanegas, Lee Harvey;Casco, Mario

A medida que los gobiernos adoptan cada vez más el software de código abierto (OSS) como parte de sus estrategias de transformación digital, la necesidad de una comprensión técnica clara y de…

Date issued: Feb 2025
Author(s): Pinto Bernal, Marisol ;Salazar Cota, Adriana;Emendabili, Julia Vieira De Andrade Dias;Rodriguez Paredes, Elizabeth Jesenia;Sanchez Romero, Luis Antonio;Gutierrez, Mariana;Urquijo Vanegas, Lee Harvey;Casco, Mario

La présente note technique couvre les aspects essentiels de la passation des marchés de logiciels libres, y compris les principes généraux de passation des marchés et les meilleures pratiques…

Date issued: Feb 2025
Author(s): Pinto Bernal, Marisol ;Salazar Cota, Adriana;Emendabili, Julia Vieira De Andrade Dias;Rodriguez Paredes, Elizabeth Jesenia;Sanchez Romero, Luis Antonio;Gutierrez, Mariana;Urquijo Vanegas, Lee Harvey;Casco, Mario

Esta nota técnica cobre aspectos críticos da aquisição de software de código aberto (OSS), incluindo princípios gerais de aquisição e melhores práticas alinhadas com as políticas de aquisição de bens…

Date issued: Feb 2025
Author(s): Latorre, Lucia;Cerrato, Ignacio;De Leo, Lorenzo

At the heart of quantum computing is the quantum bit or qubit, a quantum analog of the classical bit, which can exist in multiple states simultaneously due to a phenomenon known as superposition.…

Date issued: Feb 2025
Author(s): Latorre, Lucia;Cerrato, Ignacio;De Leo, Lorenzo

La base de la informática cuántica es el bit cuántico, o cúbit, un análogo cuántico del bit clásico, que puede existir en múltiples estados simultáneamente gracias a un fenómeno conocido como…