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Date issued: 11月 2019
Author(s): Acosta M., María Elena;Basani, Marcello;Solís, Helder

En Latinoamérica y el Caribe (LAC), la importancia de la organización comunitaria radica en la cercanía con las necesidades de la población, que construye, gestiona e implementa los servicios…

Date issued: 11月 2019
Author(s): Romis, Monica;Coslovsky, Salo

How do innovative green technologies emerge and diffuse throughout an economy, and how can public policy affect this process? This paper draws from two case studies to reverse engineer how certain…

Date issued: 11月 2019 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Corderi, David;Hori, Tsuneki;Yamín, Luis Eduardo

Existing and projected economic losses caused by floods all over the world have generated a growing consensus about the need for investment in flood risk mitigation. Most of the evidence on the…

Date issued: 11月 2019 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Musacchio, Aldo;Pineda, Emilio;Huber, John;Jara, Mauricio;Kim, Hyungon;Ter-Minassian, Teresa;Wagner, Rodrigo

The situation of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in Latin America and the Caribbean continues to be dire. This book uses an original database of SOE performance that shows that every year about one-…

Date issued: 11月 2019
Author(s): Giles Álvarez, Laura;Gomes, Zandra ;Schmid, Juan Pedro;Waithe, Kimberly

Barbados is a small tourism based economy accounting directly for 12 percent of real gross domestic product and over 40 percent of GDP when considering indirect spillovers to other sectors. It has…

Date issued: 11月 2019
Author(s): Duryea, Suzanne;Salazar Salamanca, Juan Pablo;Pinzon Caicedo, Mariana

Who are people with disabilities? For far too long the answer to this question has been to focus on the health conditions of a person, but what if a new conceptual framework facilitated inclusion?…

Date issued: 11月 2019
Author(s): Duryea, Suzanne;Salazar Salamanca, Juan Pablo;Pinzon Caicedo, Mariana

¿Quiénes son las personas con discapacidad? Por mucho tiempo, la respuesta se ha enfocado en las condiciones de salud de una persona, pero ¿qué pasa cuando se presenta un nuevo concepto que facilita…

Date issued: 11月 2019
Author(s): Duryea, Suzanne;Salazar Salamanca, Juan Pablo;Pinzon Caicedo, Mariana

Quem são as pessoas com deficiência? Durante muito tempo, a resposta se concentrou nas condições de saúde da pessoa, mas o que acontece quando surge um novo conceito que facilita a inclusão? Nesta…

Date issued: 11月 2019 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Trachtenberg, Danielle

This paper estimates the effects of NAFTA on labor and wages in Mexico using a local labor-markets approach. While NAFTA offered greater export opportunities to Mexican firms that may raise…

Date issued: 11月 2019 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Vera-Cossio, Diego A.

Decreases in labor supply among cash-aid recipients are often cited as potential drawbacks of cash-transfer programs. In developing countries, such concern might be misplaced: This paper documents…

Date issued: 11月 2019 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Elacqua, Gregory;Hincapie, Diana;Hincapié, Isabel;Montalva, Veronica

The extensive sorting of more talented teachers into the most advantaged schools contributes to the wide socioeconomic achievement gaps in Latin America. The Chilean Pedagogical Excellence Assignment…

Date issued: 11月 2019 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Keefer, Philip;Scartascini, Carlos;Vlaicu, Razvan

Voters would be better off if they removed politicians offering low-quality government by pursuing populist policies and re-elected those who improved government quality with sustainable policies. In…

Date issued: 11月 2019
Author(s): Salazar, Juan Carlos

Esta publicación es un aporte para que los países de Latinoamérica avancen, individualmente y como región, en la definición de los retos y las estrategias de política que −desde la perspectiva del…

Date issued: 11月 2019
Author(s): De Angelis, Jesica;De Azevedo, Belisario;Toscani, Verónica

Esta nota busca recabar las primeras reacciones del sector privado de los países del MERCOSUR ante el fin de las negociaciones del Acuerdo con la Unión Europea el 28 de junio de 2019. En líneas…

Date issued: 11月 2019 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Barreix, Alberto Daniel;Corrales, Luis Fernando;Benitez, Juan Carlos;Garcimartín, Carlos;Ardanaz, Martín;Díaz, Santiago;Cerda, Rodrigo;Larraín B., Felipe;Revilla, Ernesto;Acevedo, Carlos;Peña, Santiago;Agüero, Emmanuel;Mendoza Bellido, Waldo;Escobar Arango, Andrés

Este documento analiza los procesos de implementación de las reglas fiscales resilientes en América Latina. Los estudios incluyen una tipología, incluyendo sus ventajas y desventajas, así como sus…

Date issued: 11月 2019
Author(s): Pardo Abello, Rafael;Llorente Carreño, Blanca

La inclusión de personas con discapacidad es de gran interés para la región porque impacta retos para su desarrollo. Este tema destaca, por un lado, la situación de exclusión social y desigualdad que…

Date issued: 11月 2019 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): He, Zheli

Trade liberalization affects real-wage inequality through two channels: the distribution of nominal wages across workers and, if the rich and the poor consume different bundles of goods, the…

Date issued: 11月 2019 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Seminario, Bruno;Zegarra, Maria Alejandra;Palomino, Luis

El objetivo de esta investigación es estudiar la desigualdad regional en el Perú usando un concepto multifacético, es decir, incluyendo distintas dimensiones: Desigualdad, modalidad, convergencia y…

Date issued: 11月 2019
Author(s): Bosch, Mariano;Caballero, Gustavo;Cofré, Fabián;González, Stephanie;Hand, Anne;Keller, Lukas;Silva Porto, María Teresa

The objective of this document is to understand the potential that voluntary savings has to increase pension coverage for low-income and independent workers in Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru. It…

Date issued: 11月 2019
Author(s): Bosch, Mariano;Caballero, Gustavo;Cofré, Fabián;González, Stephanie;Hand, Anne;Keller, Lukas;Silva Porto, María Teresa

Este documento tiene como objetivo entender el potencial que tiene el ahorro voluntario para aumentar la cobertura previsional entre trabajadores de bajos ingresos e independientes en Chile, Colombia…

Date issued: 11月 2019
Author(s): Basco, Ana Inés;De Azevedo, Belisario;García, Pablo M.

La edición 45 de la revista “Integración y Comercio”, denominada El nuevo Factor del Comercio, pone en valor el trabajo de la alianza INTAL-Latinobarómetro, al analizar las voces de los…

Date issued: 11月 2019
Author(s): Banerjee, Onil

Rwanda has made strong progress in reducing poverty and enhancing economic growth in the last 15 years. Nonetheless, with the highest population density in Africa and its population projected to…

Date issued: 11月 2019
Author(s): Banerjee, Onil;Cicowiez, Martin;Moreda, Adela;Murguia, Juan M.

The Integrated Economic-Environmental Modeling (IEEM) Platform provides powerful insights into the potential impact of public policy and investment. This infographic highlights an application of the…

Date issued: 11月 2019
Author(s): Banerjee, Onil;Cicowiez, Martin;Moreda, Adela;Murguia, Juan M.

La Plataforma de Modelado Económico-Ambiental Integrada (IEEM) proporciona información poderosa sobre el impacto potencial de las políticas públicas y la inversión. Esta infografía destaca una…

Date issued: 11月 2019
Author(s): Banerjee, Onil;Cicowiez, Martin;Bagstad, Kenneth J.;Crossman, Neville;Dudek, Sebastian

The Integrated Economic-Environmental Modeling (IEEM) Platform linked with spatial ecosystem services modeling (IEEM-ESM) is an innovative decision-making framework for exploring complex public…