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Feb 2024
A pesar del potencial de las mypes para contribuir a la productividad y al empleo de calidad, muchas de ellas permanecen en un estado intermedio, sin lograr una modernización sustancial. Están…
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Feb 2024
The Caribbean region has made considerable progress in educational outcomes, achieving a secondary enrollment above 80 percent. However, there are still significant challenges in learning results, as…
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Feb 2024
En América Latina y el Caribe (ALC), los resultados educativos son desiguales y se sitúan por debajo de otras regiones. Una jornada escolar limitada puede aumentar estas brechas. La evidencia muestra…
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Jan 2024
This report provides estimates of Latin America and the Caribbeans international trade flows for 2023. It was prepared by the Integration and Trade Sector (INT) at the Inter-American Development Bank…
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Jan 2024
Esta nota presenta las estimaciones de los flujos comerciales internacionales de América Latina y el Caribe para el año 2023. Las cifras fueron elaboradas por el Sector de Integración y Comercio (INT…
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Jan 2024
El Grupo BID ha contribuido a que El Salvador aborde dos de sus mayores desafíos: hacer del turismo un sector más competitivo y mitigar los impactos del cambio climático en la industria cafetera.…
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Jan 2024
Las zonas más apartadas y vulnerables de Nicaragua han sido particularmente afectadas por la falta de acceso a servicios de salud y al suministro de energía eléctrica. Ambos son desafíos en los que…
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Jan 2024
Este documento resume algunas de las intervenciones y resultados del Grupo BID en Panamá, tras respaldar proyectos dirigidos a dos asuntos puntuales: uno, mejorar la eficiencia de las transferencias…
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Jan 2024
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We examine the efficiency gains in health systems generated after the national roll out of basic healthcare in El Salvador between 2010 and 2013. Using data from over 120 million consultations and…
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Jan 2024
Economic crises may favor reforms in fiscal rules, either because they increase the cost of maintaining fiscal imbalances or because these imbalances are behind the origin of the crises. Banking…
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Jan 2024
Las crisis económicas pueden favorecer las reformas de las reglas fiscales, ya sea porque aumentan el costo de mantener los desequilibrios fiscales o porque estos desequilibrios están en el origen de…
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Jan 2024
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This paper investigates how a country's economic complexity influences its sovereign yield spread with respect to the United States. Notably, a one-unit increase in the Economic Complexity Index…
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Jan 2024
In Latin America and the Caribbean, there exists an important digital divide which can have important implications for children's educational development. In particular, many children in the…
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Jan 2024
Proveer acceso a Internet en el hogar aumentó las habilidades de uso de computadoras e Internet de estudiantes de Perú. No se detectaron efectos significativos del acceso a Internet en rendimiento…
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Jan 2024
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We study the effects of a new 1% employment quota enacted in Chile in 2018 using anonymized administrative data on monthly employer-employee linkages and disability certification records. Our firm-…
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Jan 2024
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Government organizations worldwide are harvesting the transformative potential of digital technologies to automate interactions with citizens, businesses, and each other. Automation can bring…
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Jan 2024
This database compiles current standardized statistics on sovereign debt issuances for the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region and contains biannual data starting in 2006 through June 2023.…
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Jan 2024
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Studying and working abroad, internationally mobile scientists meet foreign scientists and become carriers of knowledge. The benefits of international scientific mobility might extend to nonmobile…
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Jan 2024
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The push for adopting digital modes of payment rests on three promises: increased efficiency of transactions, increased financial inclusion, and improvements in the financial well-being of low-income…
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Jan 2024
Two of the development challenges that Belize has recently worked on, with support from the IDB Group, are vulnerability to climate change and educational quality. The measures implemented on both…
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Jan 2024
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Standard water affordability measures that only account for expenditure on piped water are unlikely to adequately capture the situation of all consumers in developing countries, who often experience…
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Jan 2024
The technical note "Water Footprint Estimation in Latin America" analyzes the water footprint of Brazil, Colombia, and Costa Rica. The document describes the harmonization of databases and…
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Jan 2024
A nota técnica "Estimativa da Pegada Hídrica na América Latina" analisa a pegada hídrica do Brasil, Colômbia e Costa Rica. O documento descreve a harmonização de bases de dados e destaca…
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Jan 2024
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Uno de los mayores desafíos que enfrenta la humanidad es hacer que el planeta sea habitable para las próximas generaciones. Para ello, se requiere el rápido paso hacia economías descarbonizadas y que…
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Jan 2024
Las tensiones en torno a la actividad minera en el Perú son indicativas de muchos de los problemas que resultan del insuficiente diálogo intercultural en el diseño e implementación de políticas y…