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Date issued: 9月 2016 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Alva-Hart, Viviana;Hardoy, Jorgelina;Almansi, Florencia;Amanquez, Carlos;Cutts, Ana;Lacambra Ayuso, Sergio;Di Paola, Vanina;Celis, Alejandra

Este documento contiene aportes de la mesa temática de riesgo de desastres -terremotos, inundaciones, entre otras amenazas naturales enfocada en la construcción de estrategias y en la identificación…

Date issued: 8月 2016 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Heracleous, Maria;González, Mario;Winters, Paul

Using administrative data from the urban Mexican Oportunidades program, this paper analyzes why poor households choose less education for their children, even when offered financial compensation for…

Date issued: 8月 2016
Author(s): Obando, Nataly;Andrian, Leandro Gaston

This paper analyzes the change in poverty between 2002 and 2013 in Colombia. We find that more than 90 percent of the reduction in poverty is explained by economic growth, and that wages are the…

Date issued: 8月 2016 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Rubio-Codina, Marta;Araujo, María Caridad;Attanasio, Orazio P.;Grantham-McGregor, Sally

In low- and middle-income countries (LIMCs) measuring early childhood development (ECD) with standard tests in large scale surveys (i.e. evaluations of interventions) is difficult and expensive.…

Date issued: 8月 2016 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Rubio-Codina, Marta;Araujo, María Caridad;Attanasio, Orazio P.;Grantham-McGregor, Sally

Medir el desarrollo infantil temprano (DIT) mediante pruebas estándar de diagnóstico en estudios a gran escala resulta difícil y costoso. Por esto, con frecuencia se utilizan pruebas de tamizaje…

Date issued: 8月 2016
Author(s): Pailhé, Cristina

At the global level, efforts to measure and monitor financial inclusion indicators have been increasing. However, there is still a substantial lack of sexdisaggregated data, particularly from the…

Date issued: 8月 2016
Author(s): Pailhé, Cristina

A nivel mundial se observan esfuerzos crecientes para medir y monitorear indicadores de inclusión financiera. No obstante, existe aún una brecha sustancial de datos segregados por sexo,…

Date issued: 8月 2016
Author(s): Monge-González, Ricardo;Torres-Carballo, Federico;Torrentes-García, Laura;Coto Hernández, Sergio

Este documento presenta una descripción y evaluación tanto cualitativa como cuantitativa del Sistema Nacional para la Calidad (SNC) de Costa Rica. En particular, se lleva a cabo una evaluación…

Date issued: 8月 2016
Author(s): Vilalta Perdomo, Carlos J.;Castillo, José G.;Torres, Juan A.

In the last two decades, Latin America has been describes as an unsafe and violent region. Nonetheless, such picture is mostly based on homicide rates. Even though homicide is considered the best…

Date issued: 8月 2016
Author(s): Vilalta Perdomo, Carlos J.;Castillo, José G.;Torres, Juan A.

En las dos últimas décadas se ha descrito a América Latina como una región insegura y violenta. Sin embargo, dicha caraterización está basada prácticamente en la tasa de homicidios. Si bien el…