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Date issued:
May 2015
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This paper studies the impact of access to electricity via solar-powered home systems (SHSs) in rural communities in Peru. Applying propensity score matching at the community as well as at the…
Date issued:
May 2015
Los indicadores de riesgo de desastres y gestión de riesgos del BID permitirá a los países evaluar mejor el riesgo que afrontan los países en casos de desastre, y sirven como una guía útil para…
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May 2015
Educational spaces, apart from their functionality and efficient use of natural resources, should be conducive to learning and offer comfort and security to the people entering them. This requires…
Date issued:
May 2015
Los espacios educativos, además de ser funcionales y de hacer un uso eficiente de los recursos naturales, deben ser propicios para el aprendizaje y ofrecerles seguridad y confort a todas las personas…
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May 2015
Take a look at the garbage bin in your school or home. Have you ever wondered what makes its content garbage? If you look inside, you may see that the waste at the bottom of the bin is made up of…
Date issued:
May 2015
Te invito a echar una mirada al recipiente de basura de tu escuela o de tu casa. ¿Te has preguntado qué hace que su contenido sea basura? Si nos asomamos, podemos ver que los desperdicios del fondo…
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May 2015
The World Health Organization says that all cities and towns should have a minimum of 9 square meters (m2) of green space per person. In Latin America there are 3.5 m2 per capita. What is it like in…
Date issued:
May 2015
La Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) establece que todas las ciudades y pueblos deben tener un área mínima de 9 m2 de áreas verdes por habitante.En América Latina esta proporción es de 3,5 m2…
Date issued:
Apr 2015
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This paper follows two strategies to address whether the rich save more. First, the paper implements a two-stage procedure in which the household's lifetime income is instrumented with the…
Date issued:
Apr 2015
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This paper explores the qualitative and quantitative implications of taxation for growth and savings in three Latin American countries: Brazil, Chile and Mexico, studying a small open economy in the…
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Apr 2015
Los proyectos de inversión en salud, especialmente aquellos relacionados con hospitales, presentan un conjunto de requisitos que deben ser identificados y gestionados de manera adecuada y oportuna.…
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Apr 2015
Este documento es el segundo número de la serie de "Innovaciones en la prestación de servicios públicos" del BID, dedicada a la identificación y el análisis de experiencias innovadoras de…
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Apr 2015
Have you thought about what your life will be like in 10 or 15 years? Surely you have imagined yourself being happy, moving around your favorite spaces, working on what you like, and enjoying…
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Apr 2015
¿Has pensado cómo será tu vida dentro de diez o quince años? Seguramente te has imaginado feliz, transitando por tus espacios preferidos, trabajando en lo que te gusta, admirando bellas plantas y…
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Apr 2015
There is nothing more stimulating than deciding to improve the space in which one lives and. In so doing, one can change the way one lives. Doing this alone, while possible, is extremely difficult.…
Date issued:
Apr 2015
Nada más estimulante que decidirse a mejorar el espacio de trabajo, la forma de vivirlo, el modo de asumirlo. Es posible hacerlo de manera individual pero conlleva muchas dificultades. ¡Hacerlo en…
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Apr 2015
How much energy do you think is needed to light and mobilize all the machines and devices operating on the planet? Have you ever thought that by turning on a light in your house or school you are…
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Apr 2015
¿Cuánta energía crees que se necesita para alumbrar y movilizar las máquinas y aparatos que funcionan en el planeta? ¿Alguna vez has pensado que cuando enciendes una luz en tu casa o escuela estás…
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Apr 2015
Even though there is plenty of water on earth, not all of it is suitable for consumption. One out of every five people does not have access to safe drinking water, and 40 percent of the planet's…
Date issued:
Apr 2015
A pesar de que en la tierra hay gran cantidad de agua, no toda está disponible y en condiciones para abastecer a los seres humanos: una de cada cinco personas no tiene acceso a agua potable y el 40%…
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Apr 2015
Thousands of children and young people who attend schools every day (on schedules ranging from 4 to 10 hours) consume large amounts of natural resources (water, trees made into paper, fossil fuels…
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Apr 2015
En las escuelas se utilizan grandes cantidades de recursos naturales (agua, árboles transformados en papel, petróleo convertido en electricidad, entre otros), no sólo por los millones de niños y…
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Apr 2015
Climate change poses new hazards to schools and heightens preexisting ones. Every day we hear news of some community in the world being adversely affected by natural phenomena such as excess water (…
Date issued:
Apr 2015
El cambio climático genera nuevas amenazas para las escuelas e incrementa las ya existentes. A diario vemos en las noticias que alguna comunidad ha resultado afectada por fenómenos ligados al exceso…
Date issued:
Apr 2015
The Office of Mediation serves all IDB Group Employees (Staff and Contractuals) who are dealing with work-related issues and or grievances. The Office of Mediation is managed by the Mediation…