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Date issued: Aug 2011 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Arbeláez, María Angélica;Camacho, Carolina;Fajardo, Johanna

This paper explores the role played by policy instruments in access to housing finance by low-income households. It also analyzes the impact of housing credit and subsidies on both the quality of…

Date issued: Aug 2011 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Outes-Leon, Ingo;Porter, Catherine;Sánchez, Alan

This paper examines the causal link between early childhood nutrition and cognition, applying instrumental variables to sibling-differences for a sample of preschool aged Peruvian children. Child-…

Date issued: Aug 2011
Author(s): Gayá, Romina;Michalczewsky, Kathia

La presente nota técnica examina el salto exportador del MERCOSUR entre 2003 y 2008. Más allá del boom de las materias primas presenta un detallado análisis cuantitativo de la evolución de las ventas…

Date issued: Aug 2011
Author(s): Mesquita Moreira, Mauricio

A ultima década tem sido marcada por crescentes manifestações por parte de lideres do Brasil e da Colômbia sobre a importância e urgência da integração dos dois países sul-americanos. O ex-presidente…

Date issued: Aug 2011
Author(s): Muñoz, Rodrigo;López-Peña, Paula;Vivo, Sigrid;McCoy, Sandra

The study reports on a randomized trial of 1,200 young adults enrolled in an employment training program, to determine the most cost-effective and appropriate interview mode for measuring youth risk…

Date issued: Aug 2011
Author(s): Muñoz, Rodrigo;López-Peña, Paula;Vivo, Sigrid;McCoy, Sandra

Este trabajo busca contrastar la costo-efectividad de cuatro modos de administrar encuestas utilizadas para medir eficazmente los comportamientos de riesgo entre jóvenes. Se estudiaron dos modos…

Date issued: Aug 2011
Author(s): Inter-American Development Bank

This edition of IDEA draws from a forthcoming IDB book, Export Pioneers in Latin America, which analyzes a series of case studies of successful new export activities throughout the region to learn…

Date issued: Aug 2011
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

Este número de IDEA se basa en un libro del BID que saldrá próximamente, "Los pioneros de las exportaciones en América Latina", que analiza una serie de estudios de caso de nuevas…

Date issued: Jul 2011 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Aterido, Reyes;Hallward-Driemeier, Mary;Pagés, Carmen

Seguro Popular (SP) was introduced in 2002 to provide health insurance to the 50 million Mexicans without Social Security. This paper tests whether the program has had unintended consequences,…

Date issued: Jul 2011
Author(s): Esmeral Berrío, Roberto

Esta presentación fue realizada en la 2ª Reunión sobre Cambio Climático del Diálogo Regional de Política realizada en La Antigua, Guatemala en Julio de 2011. El ella se discute el papel de las…

Date issued: Jul 2011
Author(s): Meirovich, Hilen

Esta presentación fue parte de la II Reunión sobre cambio climático de la Red de Cambio Climático y Gestión de Riesgos de Desastres
del Diálogo Regional de Política realizada en Antigua,…

Date issued: Jul 2011
Author(s): Colston, Josh

Effective coverage is a measure of health system performance that combines three aspects of health care service delivery into a single measure: need, use, and quality. In this technical note, the…

Date issued: Jul 2011
Author(s): Yu, Bok-Keun;Miller, Sebastián J.

This paper surveys climate change funds related to LAC countries and attempts to derive some implications through performance analyses of these funds. The performance analyses show that the following…

Date issued: Jul 2011
Author(s): Lora, Eduardo

This presentation, made during the event Development Connections Conference in July 2011 in Kingston, Jamaica asks how well investments in information and communication technology (ICT) work to…

Date issued: Jul 2011 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Kaplan, David S.;Sadka, Joyce

We analyze the outcomes of 332 cases from a labor court in Mexico in which a judge awarded money to a plaintiff who claimed to have been fired by a firm without cause. The judgments were enforced in…

Date issued: Jul 2011 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Lefort, Fernando;Vargas, Miguel

Given the numerous and widely acknowledged benefits of a well-functioning housing market, it is vital to understand the degree of competition in that market, which is the starting point for…

Date issued: Jul 2011
Author(s): Feijóo, Erick;Cassar, Leslie;Luna, Jessica;Rebolledo, Andrés;Cornejo, Rafael;Lucenti, Krista;Corcuera-Santamaría, Sandra;Márquez Fariña, Manuel;Beitler, Ady;Eguíluz Zamora, Alejandra

The Integration and Trade Sector coordinated Bank efforts in LAC to respond to the joint WTO-OECD call for case stories in preparation for the Third Global Review of Aid-for-Trade. The IDB's…

Date issued: Jul 2011
Author(s): Parra Torrado, Mónica

El objetivo del presente documento es hacer un recuento de las políticas de incentivos tributarios existentes en América Latina y el Caribe a la luz de la experiencia internacional. Para esto se…

Date issued: Jul 2011
Author(s): Novoa, Raúl;Ketterer, Juan Antonio;Szarfer, Gabriela;Curat, Pablo;Gioja, Leonardo;Puerta, Marisú;Colabello, Carlos;Ramírez, Jorge;Prieto, Manuel;Sánchez Le Daca, Pablo;Matías Gago, Roxana;Lupano, Jorge A.

El presente documento se basa en la experiencia obtenida a través de la ejecución del Programa de Crédito para el Desarrollo de la Producción y el Empleo en la Provincia de San Juan, Argentina,…

Date issued: Jul 2011
Author(s): Faguet, Jean-Paul

This paper brings the proposal for a second round of reforms aimed to deep decentralization in Bolivia to light for a wider audience, and informs and enriches the current debate within Bolivia on how…

Date issued: Jun 2011
Author(s): Engle, Patrice;Cueto, Santiago;Ortíz, María Estela;Verdisco, Aimee

El presente documento entrega el marco conceptual y la fundamentación del Proyecto Regional de Indicadores de Desarrollo Infantil (PRIDI), una iniciativa del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID…

Date issued: Jun 2011
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

Esta presentación de la división de protección social y salud del BID trata sobre el índice de servicios de desarrollo infantil temprano (DIT) y el impacto de los programas DIT. También muestra una…

Date issued: Jun 2011 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Velásquez, Liliana

Este documento aplica un método diseñado por el BID para el monitoreo de la calidad urbana que se basa en la combinación de dos enfoques: precios hedónicos y satisfacción con la vida. Esta…

Date issued: Jun 2011
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

Esta presentación muestra los resultados de la Octava Conferencia Interamericana sobre Responsabilidad Social en la Empresa, realizada entre el 24 y 26 de Mayo de 2011 en Asunción, Paraguay. En esta…

Date issued: Jun 2011
Author(s): Nakamura, Keisuke

Esta presentación realizada en el 1er Taller Desarrollo Económico Local - Región Andina en el encuentro de la Subregión Andina espera profundizar el intercambio de experiencia entre los ejecutores…