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Date issued: 8月 2018
Author(s): Toch, Eran

Este documento de trabajo fue elaborado por la División de Desarrollo Urbano y Vivienda (HUD, por sus siglas en inglés) del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID) en colaboración con el…

Date issued: 8月 2018
Author(s): Hanauer, Merlin

Protected areas are fundamental to reaching the goals laid out as a part of the recent Sustainable Development Goals. Recognition of the importance of protected areas from policy makers,…

Date issued: 8月 2018 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Beuermann, Diether;Jackson, C. Kirabo

Recent studies document that, in many cases, the schools that parents prefer over others do not improve student test scores. This could be because (a) parents cannot discern schools causal impacts,…

Date issued: 8月 2018
Author(s): Seco, Antonio;Muñoz Miranda, Andrés

El contexto nuevo y cambiante de la economía digital y la digitalización del sector público ofrecen a las administraciones fiscales de América Latina y el Caribe (ALC) un marco con necesidades e…

Date issued: 8月 2018
Author(s): Cathala, Corinne;Núñez, Anamaría;Rios, Ana R.

This policy brief examines these crises, explores successes and pitfalls in the response mechanisms, and extracts valuable lessons to assist decision makers in dealing with droughts, providing…

Date issued: 8月 2018
Author(s): Cathala, Corinne;Núñez, Anamaría;Rios, Ana R.

El cambio climático está acelerando la frecuencia y gravedad de las sequías, generando desafíos tanto para los encargados de políticas como para la población a nivel mundial. Este informe de…

Date issued: 8月 2018
Author(s): Cathala, Corinne;Núñez, Anamaría;Rios, Ana R.

A mudança climática está aumentando a frequência e intensidade das secas, o que impõe enormes desafios tanto para os formuladores de políticas como para os cidadãos em todo o mundo. Esta síntese de…

Date issued: 8月 2018
Author(s): Fondo Multilateral de Inversiones;BID Invest;Trujillo, Verónica;Navajas, Sergio;Fonseca, Camila

Esta base de datos contiene información sobre desempeño e inclusión financiera por institución regulada en la región. FINLAC data cubre siete años (2005, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014 y 2015) y…

Date issued: 8月 2018
Author(s): Gray, Cheryl;Alonso, Pablo;Schijman, Agustina;Ahumada, Alejandro;Alejandre, Florencia;Carpanelli, María del Mar;Crespo, Anna Risi Vianna;Elliott, Victoria;Florimon, Andrea;García, Juan Felipe;Gonzalez Diez, Verónica M.;Gwin, Catherine;Haarsager, Ulrike;Hernández, María José;Huppi, Monika;Khadr, Ali;Legarreta, Regina;Linares, Ana María;Michelitsch, Roland;Puerta, Juan Manuel;Putic, Melanie;Setien Santianez, Loreto;Soldano, Miguel;Soriano, Alejandro;Szwedzki, Roni;Wattenbach, Horst

In 2010 the IDB’s Board of Governors approved the 9th General Capital Increase (IDB-9), adding $70 billion in paid-in and callable capital to IDB’s existing $100 billion capital base. Governors tied…

Date issued: 8月 2018
Author(s): Gray, Cheryl;Alonso, Pablo;Schijman, Agustina;Ahumada, Alejandro;Alejandre, Florencia;Carpanelli, María del Mar;Crespo, Anna Risi Vianna;Elliott, Victoria;Florimon, Andrea;García, Juan Felipe;Gonzalez Diez, Verónica M.;Gwin, Catherine;Haarsager, Ulrike;Hernández, María José;Huppi, Monika;Khadr, Ali;Legarreta, Regina;Linares, Ana María;Michelitsch, Roland;Puerta, Juan Manuel;Putic, Melanie;Setien Santianez, Loreto;Soldano, Miguel;Soriano, Alejandro;Szwedzki, Roni;Wattenbach, Horst

En 2010, la Asamblea de Gobernadores del BID aprobó el Noveno Aumento General de Capital, que incrementó la base de capital de US$100.000 millones con que contaba el BID en US$70.000 millones en…

Date issued: 8月 2018
Author(s): Rossi, José Luiz

This paper studies the predictive power of several proxies for liquidity in forecasting exchange rates for a set of countries from January 2001 to April 2013. The results indicate that changes in…

Date issued: 8月 2018
Author(s): Goñi Pacchioni, Edwin A.;Gonzales, Alessandra;Pardo, Francisco

Knowledge is transferred between firms explicitly or tacitly. While non-embedded knowledge can be transferred explicitly through patent citations, embedded knowledge is essentially transferred…

Date issued: 8月 2018 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Cravo, Tulio;Jacinto, Paulo;Schimanski, Caroline

The important debate about how economic fluctuations affect employment reallocation in heterogeneous businesses is currently open in the literature. This debate is relevant as it matters for the…

Date issued: 8月 2018
Author(s): Meltzer, Joshua P.

This report outlines a range of reforms needed to develop a digital economy and to take advantage of digital trade opportunities. Many of the recommended reforms are domestic in nature, such as…

Date issued: 8月 2018
Author(s): Hernaiz, Daniel;Miller, Sebastián J.;Pedroni, Peter

A number of policy discussions in macroeconomics have to do with the impact of commodity price fluctuations on fiscal policy in commodity exporting countries. Commodity price movements, however, have…

Date issued: 8月 2018
Author(s): Miller, Sebastián J.;Ruiz-Tagle V., Cristóbal

This paper examines the effect of exposure to air pollution on the probability of a pregnancy ending in a stillbirth delivery. We use official registry data of pregnancy outcomes and municipality-…

Date issued: 8月 2018
Author(s): Vera-Cossio, Diego A.

Decentralizing the allocation of resources to community members is an increasingly popular form of delivering public resources in developing countries. However, this approach is associated with the…

Date issued: 8月 2018 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Araujo, María Caridad;Rubio-Codina, Marta;Dormal, Marta

As home visiting programs continue to expand, it is crucial to develop cost-effective methods to monitor their quality that are feasible at-scale. This paper compares two instruments widely used…

Date issued: 8月 2018 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Araujo, María Caridad;Rubio-Codina, Marta;Dormal, Marta

A medida que los programas de visitas continúan expandiéndose, es crucial desarrollar métodos costo-efectivos de monitoreo de su calidad, que sean factibles de aplicación a escala. Este documento…

Date issued: 8月 2018
Author(s): Navajas, Fernando

Este estudio busca responder a la pregunta de cómo deberían los servicios públicos (domiciliarios) de infraestructura ser objeto de imposición, procediendo a revisar la literatura de imposición…

Date issued: 8月 2018
Author(s): Dalaison, Wilhelm;Camacho, Marcos

There are several modalities for the elaboration of social infrastructure designs: they can be carried out by the executing unit or other public institution of the borrowing country. Individual…

Date issued: 8月 2018
Author(s): Dalaison, Wilhelm;Camacho, Marcos

Para la elaboración de diseños de infraestructura social existen varias modalidades: pueden ser realizados por el propio personal de la unidad ejecutora o de otra institución pública del país…

Date issued: 8月 2018
Author(s): Dalaison, Wilhelm;Camacho, Marcos

Pour le développement de conceptions d'infrastructures sociales, il existe plusieurs modalités : elles peuvent tre réalisées par le personnel de l'unité d'exécution ou d'une autre…

Date issued: 8月 2018
Author(s): Dalaison, Wilhelm;Camacho, Marcos

Existem várias modalidades para a elaboraço de projetos de infraestrutura social: eles podem ser executados pela unidade executora ou outra instituiço pública do país mutuário, consultores…

Date issued: 8月 2018
Author(s): Dalaison, Wilhelm

The selection of the appropriate area for the location is one of the critical aspects that arise at the start of an infrastructure project and has implications throughout its life cycle. This…