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Date issued: 8月 2020
Author(s): Rossi, Martín;Vázquez, Antonia;Vieyra, Juan Cruz

This paper provides experimental evidence about the causal impact of disclosing information related to public investment projects on the performance of these projects. Specifically, it analyzes the…

Date issued: 8月 2020
Author(s): Rossi, Martín;Vázquez, Antonia;Vieyra, Juan Cruz

Esta publicación proporciona evidencia experimental sobre el impacto causal que la divulgación de información relacionada con proyectos de inversión pública tiene en el desempeño de estos proyectos.…

Date issued: 8月 2020 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Ajzenman, Nicolás;Bertoni, Eleonora;Elacqua, Gregory;Marotta, Luana;Méndez, Carolina

Inequality in access to high-quality teachers is an important driver of student socioeconomic achievement gaps. We experimentally evaluate a novel nation-wide low-cost government program aimed at…

Date issued: 8月 2020
Author(s): Balza, Lenin;Brearley, Emily;Clarke, Dillon;Gauto, Victor

New oil-producing countries face the daunting challenge of transforming expected revenue windfalls into sustainable and inclusive economic development. Record discoveries and growing hydrocarbon…

Date issued: 8月 2020
Author(s): Abuelafia, Emmanuel;Saboin, José Luis

The collapse of the Venezuelan economy is unprecedented. If the expected reduction in economic activity of 2020 (around 30%) is added to the 70% contraction between 2013 and 2019, the Venezuelan…

Date issued: 8月 2020
Author(s): Abuelafia, Emmanuel;Saboin, José Luis

El colapso en que se encuentra la economía venezolana no tiene precedentes. La economía se contrajo un 70% entre 2013 y 2019, a lo que se suma una reducción esperada del 30% en 2020, lo que la ubica…

Date issued: 8月 2020
Author(s): Ikeda, John;Basani, Marcello;De Kervenoael, Mathieu;Murthy, Sudhir

Massive amounts of investment are needed to meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for water supply and sanitation. However, several challenges have limited the ability to mobilize…

Date issued: 8月 2020
Author(s): Támola, Alejandro;Fernández Díez, María Carmen

The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered the largest global economic contraction since the Great Depression. Governments are faced with the daunting task of devising policy responses in an environment of…

Date issued: 8月 2020
Author(s): Támola, Alejandro;Fernández Díez, María Carmen

La pandemia del COVID-19 ha desencadenado la mayor contracción económica mundial desde la Gran Depresión. Los gobiernos se enfrentan a la abrumadora tarea de diseñar políticas públicas en un entorno…

Date issued: 8月 2020
Author(s): Elacqua, Gregory;Marotta, Luana;Bertoni, Eleonora;Méndez, Carolina;Westh Olsen, Anne Sofie;Román, Alonso;Soares, Sammara

Amid the economic crisis triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic, there is a risk that the inequality of opportunity in education may increase in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries unless well…