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Date issued:
11月 2020
Access to piped sewage in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) cities has been on the rise in recent decades. Yet achieving high rates of end-user connection between dwellings and sewage pipelines…
Date issued:
11月 2020
La crisis del COVID-19 ha dejado al descubierto que los empleos informales no solo son peor remunerados y menos productivos que los formales, no generan ingresos fiscales y no tienen mecanismos de…
Date issued:
11月 2020
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Generative AI enabled
In village economies, insurance networks are key to smoothing shocks, while production networks can propagate them. The interplay of these networks is crucial. We show that a significant health…
Date issued:
11月 2020
Digital government and citizen oversight initiatives have increased in number in recent years. Governments have increased the numbers of virtual platforms that display data on public works, and…
Date issued:
11月 2020
Las iniciativas de gobierno digital y control ciudadano han aumentado en los últimos años. Sin embargo, la literatura sobre su efectividad es escasa. En este estudio se busca presentar evidencia…
Date issued:
11月 2020
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Generative AI enabled
We develop and estimate a model of child care markets that endogenizes both demand and supply. On the demand side, families with a child make consumption, labor supply, and child-care decisions…
Date issued:
11月 2020
As of 2017, 8.3 billion metric tons of plastic had been produced worldwide. Since about 40% is used in things that are thrown away relatively quickly (packaging and single use items), 6.4 billion…
Date issued:
11月 2020
En base a los datos de la encuesta de la alianza INTAL-Latinobarómetro del año 2018, este estudio se propone analizar las diferentes opiniones entre mujeres y hombres acerca de la integración en…
Date issued:
11月 2020
Expanding small-scale interventions without lowering quality and attenuating impact is a critical policy challenge. Community monitoring overs a low-cost quality assurance mechanism by making service…
Date issued:
11月 2020
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Generative AI enabled
Latin American governments swiftly implemented income assistance programs to sustain families' livelihoods during COVID-19 stay-at-home orders. This paper analyzes the potential coverage and…