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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): 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: 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): 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

La última década ha estado marcada por numerosas manifestaciones por parte de líderes brasileños y colombianos, en cuanto a la importancia y urgencia de la integración regional de los dos países…

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 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
Author(s): Kugler, Adriana

This paper surveys the macro and micro empirical evidence on the effects of different types of labor taxes (in particular, payroll and income taxes) on firm performance and worker behavior. There is…

Date issued: Aug 2011
Author(s): Dengel, Cristina;Horton, John

The IDB's strategy in Brazil seeks to promote and further the reform and modernization of the public sector, to support efforts to improve the competitiveness of Brazilian goods, to support the…

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

This documents contains Disaster Risk and Disaster Management indicators for Belize calculated according to the methodology developed by the Bank. This System of Indicators had three specific…