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Apr 2024
The new edition of the Better Jobs Index in Latin America and the Caribbean highlights that, although the quality of employment has reached its highest point since 2010, most of the working-age…
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Apr 2024
La nueva edición del Índice de Mejores Trabajos en América Latina y el Caribe destaca que, aunque la calidad del empleo ha alcanzado su punto más alto desde 2010, la mayoría de las personas en edad…
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Apr 2024
El Cambio Climático (CC) ha generado importantes impactos negativos para el sector transporte de América Latina y el Caribe (ALC) durante las últimas décadas. El incremento en la intensidad y…
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Apr 2024
In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the "Digital Hospital" project of Genexus Consulting was selected from 500 proposals in the call of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to…
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Apr 2024
En el año 2020, durante la pandemia de COVID-19, el proyecto "Hospital Digital" de Genexus Consulting fue seleccionado entre 500 propuestas en la convocatoria del Banco Interamericano de…
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Apr 2024
Compendium of health innovation startups in the region, complementing the report of a comprehensive analysis of health startups in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), delving into the challenges,…
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Apr 2024
Compendio de startups de innovación en salud en la región, complementando el informe de un análisis integral de startups de salud en América Latina y el Caribe, profundizando en los desafíos,…
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Apr 2024
The report offers a comprehensive analysis of health startups in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), delving into the challenges, trends, and investments in the region. It identifies major health…
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Apr 2024
El informe ofrece un análisis integral de las startups de salud en América Latina y el Caribe (LAC), profundizando en los desafíos, tendencias e inversiones en la región. Identifica los principales…
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Apr 2024
En Paraguay, en 2018, se inició un proyecto de transformación digital en salud (TDS) para mejorar la atención médica. Es así como se estableció la estrategia de Salud Digital "Paraguay…
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Apr 2024
El objetivo de este documento es presentar, de manera sintetizada y bajo un enfoque geográfico, información clave respecto a la infraestructura vial de Costa Rica, haciendo énfasis en los aportes que…
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Apr 2024
The Expansion of the OLAS Household Survey Data Set was a project implemented in collaboration between the OLAS and the Social Division (SCL) of the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) from…
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Apr 2024
La ampliación del conjunto de datos de encuestas de hogares de Observatorio de Datos de América Latina y el Caribe (OLAS) fue un proyecto implementado en colaboración con el Sector Social (SCL) del…
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Apr 2024
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Uruguay logró contener la expansión del virus SARS-CoV-2 con relativo éxito hasta la llegada de las vacunas, con una evolución de contagios similar a la de Corea del Sur durante los primeros nueve…
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Apr 2024
Este documento presenta un marco conceptual para la integración de tecnologías digitales en los sistemas educativos de América Latina y el Caribe, con el objetivo de mejorar la calidad de la…
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Apr 2024
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This paper studies the effects of changes in local public education budgets on individual schooling attainment and migration, as well as on local labor market outcomes. I leverage the introduction of…
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Apr 2024
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We examine whether highlighting streaks encourages 4th to 6th grade students in Peru to increase their use of an online math platform and improve learning. Sixty thousand students were randomly…
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Apr 2024
El turismo es uno de los principales sectores con gran potencial de crecimiento en las economías andinas. Frente al desafío de llevar a cabo un proceso de transformación productiva, varios países de…
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Apr 2024
El turismo es uno de los principales sectores con gran potencial de crecimiento en las economías andinas. Frente al desafío de llevar a cabo un proceso de transformación productiva, varios países de…
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Apr 2024
El turismo es uno de los principales sectores con gran potencial de crecimiento en las economías andinas. Frente al desafío de llevar a cabo un proceso de transformación productiva, varios países de…
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Apr 2024
This publication contains the stories of the five finalist teams of Development Superheroes 2023, the initiative that each year recognizes and disseminates the cases and lessons learned from projects…
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Apr 2024
Esta publicación recoge las historias de los cinco equipos finalistas de Superhéroes del Desarrollo 2023, la iniciativa que cada año reconoce y divulga los casos y lecciones aprendidas de proyectos…
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Apr 2024
Cette publication rassemble les histoires des cinq équipes finalistes de Development Superheroes 2023, l'initiative qui, chaque année, reconnaît et diffuse les cas et les leçons tirées de…
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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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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
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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
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…
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Apr 2024
Durante el año 2023, el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID) implementó mesas ejecutivas de trabajo interinstitucionales y permanentes en tres estados del Sur-Sureste de México: Yucatán, Chiapas…
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Apr 2024
This document details the experiences of mothers who were beneficiaries of the childcare subsidy for children under 5 years old, provided by the Program to Support Employment II (PAE II), as a…