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Date issued: Oct 2023
Author(s): Alvarez Alonso, Oliverio;Díaz Echeverría, Alberto;Afonso, Noé;Sánchez Campos, Alfonso;Bordiu Garcia-Ovies, Cecilia

La transformación digital del sector energético en América Latina y el Caribe es un proceso profundo que va más allá de la tecnología. Implica actualizar activos, sistemas y cultura organizativa.…

Date issued: Oct 2023
Author(s): Alvarez Alonso, Oliverio;Díaz Echeverría, Alberto;Afonso, Noé;Sánchez Campos, Alfonso;Bordiu Garcia-Ovies, Cecilia

A transformação digital do setor energético na América Latina e no Caribe é um processo profundo que vai além da tecnologia. Implica na atualização de ativos, sistemas e cultura organizacional. Esta…

Date issued: Oct 2023
Author(s): Serafini, Verónica

Este reporte destaca la importancia de la población joven en Paraguay, que representa el 27% de la población uno de los pesos relativos más elevados en la historia del país-, y la oportunidad de…

Date issued: Oct 2023 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Cabezas, Eduardo;Navarro, Fabián;Pérez, Danny;Torres, Gina

La presente investigacion desarrolla una metodologa para la estimacion de las especies monetarias en circulacion (EMC) para el caso de una economa dolarizada como la ecuatoriana.Este enfoque se basa…

Date issued: Oct 2023 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Robalino, Juan;Mullan, Katrina;Piaggio, Matías;Guzmán, Marisol

We evaluate whether floods and landslides are more likely when rain falls inside versus outside protected areas (PAs). We use monthly municipality data for the period 2000-2015 in Guatemala and…

Date issued: Oct 2023 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Cavalcanti, Tiago;Kaboski, Joseph P.;Martins, Bruno;Santos, Cezar

Most aggregate theories of financial frictions model credit available at a cost of financing equal to the savings rate but rationed. However, using a comprehensive firm-level credit registry, we…

Date issued: Oct 2023
Author(s): Sabogal-Cardona, Orlando;Oviedo, Daniel;Scholl, Lynn

App-based ride-hailing is no longer a new transportation phenomenon. Yet much remains unknown about its influence on user behaviors associated with the decarbonization of urban mobility, such as the…

Date issued: Oct 2023 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Brunori, Paolo;Ferreira, Francisco H. G.;Neidhöfer, Guido

How strong is the transmission of socio-economic status across generations in Latin America? To answer this question, we first review the empirical literature on intergenerational mobility and…

Date issued: Oct 2023 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Menezes-Filho, Naercio Aquino;Narita, Renata

This paper describes the patterns of worker turnover in selected Latin American countries and their implications for wage inequality. It documents a higher positive annual wage growth rate for job to…

Date issued: Oct 2023 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Alvaredo, Facundo;Bourguignon, François;Ferreira, Francisco H. G.;Lustig, Nora

Drawing on a comprehensive compilation of quantile shares and inequality measures for 34 countries, including over 5,600 estimated Gini coefficient, we review the measurement of income inequality in…