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Mar 2025
La trata de personas es un delito y una grave violación de los derechos humanos que afecta a millones de niños, niñas, mujeres y hombres en todo el mundo. Este fenómeno, complejo y multicausal,…
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Mar 2025
Trafficking in persons is a crime and a grave violation of human rights that affects millions of children, women, and men worldwide. This complex and multi-causal phenomenon exploits an individual…
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Mar 2025
La trata de personas es un delito y una grave violación de los derechos humanos que afecta a millones de niños, niñas, mujeres y hombres en todo el mundo. Este fenómeno complejo y multicausal explota…
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Mar 2025
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Widening income disparities, higher corruption and larger informality in many emerging market and developing economies (EMDE) including Latin America, all with pressing and mounting fiscal problems,…
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Mar 2025
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We study how poorly-behaved children affect learning and other outcomes of their peers using data from a unique experiment in Ecuador. Within each school, students were randomly assigned to…
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Mar 2025
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Este estudio presenta una actualización y revisión del análisis de políticas públicas de apoyo al sector agropecuario de El Salvador en 2018-2022. Se emplea la metodología de Estimado de Apoyo al…
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Mar 2025
Care is essential work and a fundamental pillar for economic growth and well-being. Everyone will require care at some point in their life. Care includes healthcare, household care, care for…
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Mar 2025
El cuidado es una labor esencial y un pilar fundamental para el bienestar y el crecimiento económico. A lo largo de la vida, todas las personas lo requieren. Esto incluye atención médica, trabajo…
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Mar 2025
El propósito de este documento es recopilar historias de éxito en actividades de restauración forestal en bosques públicos, en el marco del Proyecto Manejo Sostenible de Bosques, desarrollado en la…
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Mar 2025
Este documento analiza las inversiones necesarias para que el sistema eléctrico peruano alcance la carbono neutralidad a 2050, a través del contraste de planes de expansión óptimos de generación y…
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Mar 2025
Infrastructure services - transport, energy, water and sanitation, and digital infrastructure - are central to the fight against global poverty. Yet, their ability to improve lives hinges on…
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Mar 2025
The future development of the countries of the Southern Cone - Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay - depends largely on the interventions made today to improve the prospects of young…
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Mar 2025
The availability of beneficial ownership information on legal persons and arrangements (legal entities) is a key requirement of tax transparency and a key instrument in the fight against tax evasion…
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Mar 2025
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In this paper, we analyze the competition in the Colombian banking sector using bank-level monthly balance sheet information. We estimate the changes in measures of market power due to the exogenous…
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Mar 2025
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Climate change presents both a critical threat and a unique opportunity for progress in Latin America and the Caribbean. This book delves into this dual reality, showing that climate action is…
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Mar 2025
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El cambio climático representa a la vez una amenaza decisiva y una oportunidad única para el progreso en América Latina y el Caribe. Este libro aborda esta realidad dual, y muestra que la acción…
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Mar 2025
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As mudanças climáticas representam tanto uma ameaça crítica quanto uma oportunidade única de progresso na América Latina e no Caribe. Este livro se aprofunda nessa dupla realidade, mostrando que a…
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Feb 2025
This document presents "Chiles Techno-Creative Landscape", an art exhibition that celebrates Chilean innovation and creativity, highlighting the country's contributions at the…
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Feb 2025
En la región amazónica, 1 de cada 3 niños, niñas y adolescentes vive a más de 2,5 km del centro educativo más cercano, lo que implica al menos una hora de caminata diaria. Los análisis muestran…
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Feb 2025
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This paper examines how the act of giving advice to others can serve as a tool for self-persuasion in high-stakes decisions. We tested this hypothesis in Perus nationwide teacher selection process,…
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Feb 2025
The purpose of this guide is to incorporate a gender perspective in the dispute resolution processes managed by MICI with respect to environmental and social grievances related to development…
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Feb 2025
Esta guía tiene como objetivo incorporar una perspectiva de género en los procesos de resolución de disputas gestionados por el MICI respecto a quejas ambientales y sociales vinculadas con los…
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Feb 2025
The Office of Evaluation and Oversight (OVE) is an independent office of the Inter-American Development Bank Group (IDB Group), reporting directly to the Boards of Executive Directors of the IDB and…
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Feb 2025
La Oficina de Evaluación y Supervisión (OVE) es una oficina independiente del Grupo Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (Grupo BID), que reporta directamente a los Directorios Ejecutivos del BID y de…
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Feb 2025
This report summarizes the 2024 results of the Office of Evaluation and Oversight's (OVEs) annual review of project performance at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Group. Every year,…
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Feb 2025
Este informe sintetiza los resultados de 2024 de la revisión anual de la Oficina de Evaluación y Supervisión (OVE) sobre el desempeño de los proyectos en el Grupo del Banco Interamericano de…
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Feb 2025
In the past few years, the evidence-base regarding the inclusion of people with disabilities has advanced considerably, both in high- and low-to-mid income countries. This policy brief focuses on the…
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Feb 2025
En los últimos años, la base de evidencia sobre la inclusión de las personas con discapacidad ha avanzado en gran medida en países de ingresos ambos altos y bajo-medios. Este resumen de política se…
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Feb 2025
Ecuador's economic performance has lagged behind its potential and the broader Latin American region since 2010. Despite rising public debt and financial support from international institutions…
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Feb 2025
The following report delves into the essential components that make up IoT systems, illustrative examples of the IoT in action, and its broad spectrum of applications spanning multiple industries,…
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Feb 2025
Este informe profundiza en los componentes clave que integran los sistemas IoT, ofrece ejemplos representativos de su funcionamiento y destaca las diversas aplicaciones del IoT en distintos sectores…
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Feb 2025
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In a context of fiscal constraints, citizen distrust, and accelerating technological change, the third edition of the regional civil service study, Better Governments for Better Lives, assesses the…
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Feb 2025
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En un contexto de restricciones fiscales, desconfianza ciudadana y cambios tecnológicos acelerados, la tercera edición del estudio "Mejores gobiernos para mejores vidas” evalúa el estado del…
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Feb 2025
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Num contexto de restrições fiscais, desconfiança dos cidadãos e mudanças tecnológicas aceleradas, a terceira edição do estudo "Melhores Governos para Melhores Vidas" avalia o estado do…
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Feb 2025
Women and girls use water for domestic activities and home-caring for vulnerable family members, as well as taking care of small cattle and agricultural production. Given their active use of water,…
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Feb 2025
En este estudio investigamos la relación entre el sobreendeudamiento y las condiciones de salud en Costa Rica y México. Para hacerlo se utilizan encuestas de ingresos y gastos a nivel de país y se…
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Feb 2025
El objetivo general de este estudio es formular sugerencias para continuar fortaleciendo el marco fiscal de Uruguay e incorporar tanto las lecciones aprendidas en la etapa de implementación, como las…
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Feb 2025
Este documento propone prácticas para ayudar a los departamentos profesionales y técnicos de la organización, encargados del escenario de tecnología operativa (TO) y de los sistemas de control…
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Feb 2025
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has identified the need to develop a set of transparency and integrity principles (TIPs) understood as a series of recommended guidelines or best practices…
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Feb 2025
Now more than ever, the overall health and well-being of students and educators alike become a global priority for health-care professionals, educators, and families. Socialemotional learning (SEL)…
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Feb 2025
Hoy más que nunca, la salud y el bienestar general de estudiantes y educadores se ha convertido en una prioridad global para profesionales de la salud, educadores y familias. Las competencias de…
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Feb 2025
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This study investigates the disconnect between falling agricultural commodity prices and persistent food inflation by applying a Heterogeneous Vector Autoregression (VAR) model to a panel of 203…
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Feb 2025
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This paper examines the relationship between wages and market power at the firm level. We derive firm-specific measures of labor market power and present a natural decomposition of wage changes into…
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Feb 2025
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The functioning of the banking sector is key for economic growth. In this paper, we first gather banks' balance sheet monthly regulatory information in a consistent manner for seven Latin…
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Feb 2025
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Accurate demographic data are essential for effective policy design, yet private costs may deter individuals from truthfully reporting sensitive information. We examine this market failure and its…
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Feb 2025
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Cervical cancer, primarily caused by persistent Human Papillomavirus (HPV) infection, remains one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths among women in developing countries. Although HPV…
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Feb 2025
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This study employs an event study methodology to analyze the overall impact of childbirth, as well as the birth of a child with a disability, on the labor market outcomes of mothers and fathers. We…
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Feb 2025
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Research about trade liberalization's impact on markups has focused on manufacturing due to data availability considerations. How do these effects vary across sectors? Which industries become…
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Feb 2025
El objetivo general de esta publicación es evaluar el impacto socioeconómico del desarrollo de la infraestructura de datos en Colombia. La infraestructura de datos se concibe como los componentes…
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Feb 2025
El objetivo de esta publicación es evaluar el impacto socioeconómico del desarrollo de la infraestructura de datos, concebida como los componentes necesarios, su almacenamiento, manipulación y…