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Date issued:
Apr 2015
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Between 2000 and 2013, Latin America has considerably reduced poverty (from 46.3% to 29.7% of the population). In this paper, we use synthetic panels to show that, despite progress, the region…
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Apr 2015
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Entre 2000 y 2013, la pobreza disminuyó considerablemente en América Latina ¿ del 46,3% al 29,7% de la población. En este documento, utilizamos paneles sintéticos para demostrar que, a pesar de los…
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Apr 2015
This document presents the codebook for a novel database of tax reforms for Latin America between 1990 and 2004 using the Worldwide Tax Summaries of PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC). The constraint we…
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Apr 2015
This file contains the distribution of firm size at the industry level for formal firms in Brazil.
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Apr 2015
The Database of Political Institutions presents institutional and electoral results data such as measures of checks and balances, tenure and stability of the government, identification of party…
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Apr 2015
This paper presents a new dataset on electoral systems and outlines its potential uses in further research exploring the connections between electoral systems and economic outcomes. The dataset…
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Apr 2015
Medium Term Fiscal Frameworks (MTFs) have become one of the most popular reforms to the budgetary process in Latin America during the last decade, and introducing MTFs seemed to be the magic solution…
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Apr 2015
Database from the Research Department on Social Exclusion and Experiments in Six Cities of Latin America
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Apr 2015
This dataset compiles publicly available data that proxies for the quality of the public policies that affect productivity at the national level, along with proxies for the articulation and…
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Apr 2015
Macro bilateral trade data. This dataset was created to support Trade Intensity and Business Cycle Synchronization.
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Apr 2015
Commonly used datasets on the level of public debt provide incomplete country and period coverage. This paper presents a new dataset that includes complete series of central government debt for 89…
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Apr 2015
Most countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have been growing slowly for a long time and see themselves still poor relative to the rest of the world, both advanced countries and peer…
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Apr 2015
The February 2015 surveys of expectations conducted by Central Banks with inflation targeting regimes indicate that the simple average growth expectations for 2015 for the eight countries covered has…
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Apr 2015
No existe actualmente un método o instrumento que permita medir y evaluar el uso de las estadísticas para el diseño de las políticas públicas. La evaluación del desarrollo estadístico de los países…
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Apr 2015
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This paper studies the effect of mandated employer-provided child care on the wages of women hired in large firms in Chile. We use a unique employer-employee database from the country's…
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Apr 2015
This Technical Note identifies climate change risk management options that can be incorporated into IDB investments and presents considerations for monitoring and evaluation strategies to track the…
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Apr 2015
The 2015 first quarter edition of the Quarterly Business Review (QBR) provides management with a status of the Bank's performance. The QBR reports on outputs, lending program priorities and…
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Apr 2015
Este libro es un homenaje del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo a la memoria de Gabriel García Márquez, especialmente a su esposa Mercedes Barcha, -incansable compañera de vida-, y a esa infinita…
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Apr 2015
The INTAL Monthly Newsletter reports on developments in integration and trade across Latin American and the Caribbean. It also serves as a forum for discussing the IDB's activities related to…
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Apr 2015
La carta mensual del INTAL informa sobre desarrollos en las áreas de integración y comercio en las regiones de América Latina y el Caribe. También es el medio para difundir las actividades realizadas…
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Apr 2015
A carta mensal do INTAL informa sobre os desenvolvimentos nas áreas de integração e comércio nas regiões da América Latina e do Caribe. É também um meio de difusão das atividades do BID sobre estes…
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Mar 2015
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This paper investigates the effects of political (mis)alignment on public service delivery when mandates are shared between state and local governments. We analyze sewage treatment policies in the…
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Mar 2015
El análisis muestra que los programas de transferencias directas (a veces también llamados programas sociales), en general, se concentran mayormente en los hogares con menores ingresos, pero que,…
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Mar 2015
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate interdisciplinary research on vulnerability indexes to climate change. The paper presents a systematized analysis of recent literature on agriculture, coastal…
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Mar 2015
The Caribbean Region Quarterly Bulletin discusses recent economic developments in the 6 IDB-member Caribbean countries, as well as the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS). Being the first…