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Apr 2024
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This document provides a guide for conducting behaviorally informed interventions to reduce businesses' carbon footprint. It draws insights from a pilot study within Colombia's textile…
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Apr 2024
Los ecosistemas de pagos minoristas de América Latina y el Caribe (ALC) son el resultado de décadas de construcción, que en los últimos años se han visto poblados con nuevos agentes, sujetos a nuevas…
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Apr 2024
Un servicio civil meritocrático, motivado y comprometido es esencial en la provisión de bienes y servicios públicos. ¿Cómo fortalecer las políticas y prácticas de gestión de personas, un aspecto…
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Apr 2024
This edition of Connexa presents the recent dynamic of trade in goods and services of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), along with the evolution of investment flows towards the region.…
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Apr 2024
Esta edição da Connexa apresenta os resultados do desempenho comercial de bens e serviços na América Latina e no Caribe (ALC), e a evolução dos fluxos de investimento para a região. Além disso, são…
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Apr 2024
This report presents the Inter-American Development Banks (IDB) results of the Review of Callable Capital exercise, initiated by a group of Multilateral Development Bank (MDB) shareholders, to…
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Apr 2024
En esta edición de Connexa se presentan los resultados del desempeño comercial reciente de América Latina y el Caribe (ALC) en bienes y servicios, y la evolución de los flujos de inversión hacia la…
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Apr 2024
Este Plan Estratégico Urbano y Territorial para el Desarrollo de Perito Moreno (PDPM), provincia de Santa Cruz, Argentina, es el resultado de un esfuerzo conjunto realizado entre marzo de 2019 y…
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Apr 2024
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Climate data governance is a key step in taking advantage of the opportunities offered by innovative financial mechanisms, based on the provision of data and indicators that can attest to the…
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Apr 2024
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La gobernanza de los datos climáticos es un paso clave para poder seguir aprovechando las oportunidades que brindan los mecanismos financieros innovadores, fundamentados en la provisión de datos e…
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Apr 2024
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The relationship between firms and inequality has been a focus of recent attention globally. This chapter summarizes basic facts about this relationship for Latin America. Unlike advanced economies…
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Apr 2024
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Latin America is widely acknowledged as one of the most unequal regions of the world (Sánchez-Ancochea 2021). But it is also one of the most democratic, certainly as compared to other developing…
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Apr 2024
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El desarrollo de infraestructura pública constituye una de las principales responsabilidades que tiene todo Gobierno, toda vez que congrega los fundamentos físicos que proveen acceso a servicios…
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Apr 2024
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The development of public infrastructure is one of the core responsibilities of any government, as it encompasses the physical foundations that provide access to essential public services such as…
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Apr 2024
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Covering the full population of applicants to the Jamaican Conditional Cash Transfer Program (PATH), we explore whether receiving PATH since childhood altered the academic gains from attending a more…
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Apr 2024
We examine the relationship between energy consumption and economic growth in Latin America and the Caribbean using panel data from 1971 to 2019. Employing both parametric and non-parametric methods…
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Apr 2024
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As the measurement of public opinion and attitudes toward gender issues has gained increasing attention in gender policy and research, the accurate design, implementation, and analysis of survey data…
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Apr 2024
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Behavioral biases often lead to suboptimal decisions, a vulnerability that extends to policymakers who operate under conditions of fatigue, stress, and time constraints and with significant…
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Apr 2024
In the wake of a robust economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021 and 2022, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) now face a less promising growth outlook for 2024, with slowing employment…
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Apr 2024
Luego de una sólida recuperación en 2021 y 2022 de la recesión económica causada por la pandemia de COVID-19, América Latina y el Caribe (ALC) enfrenta un escenario de crecimiento menos prometedor…
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Apr 2024
Persistent gender economic differences have led to an extensive amount of literature devoted to the gender wage gap. However, wages are only one component of income for women and men, and self-…
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Apr 2024
Assessing the development of countries relies on poverty rates as a key indicator. However, official poverty rates are derived from household surveys that often have limited frequency, unexpected…
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Apr 2024
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Though governments regularly implement fiscal adjustments to avert crisis, voter attitudes toward competing adjustment strategies are still poorly understood. A conjoint experiment with 8,000 survey…
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Apr 2024
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Climate change is an existential threat to the world economy, with complex, evolving and nonlinear dynamics that remain a source of great uncertainty. There is a bourgeoning literature on the…
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Apr 2024
During the year 2023, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) implemented permanent interinstitutional executive work tables in three states of Southern-Southeastern Mexico: Yucatán, Chiapas, and…