La política en el campo de la mujer en el desarrollo señala la capacitación técnica, los servicios del mercado laboral y la formación profesional como áreas prioritarias de acción puesto que la mujer constituye un alto porcentaje de la población económicamente activa en América Latina...

The overall goal of the Bank's Women in Development (WID) Policy is to improve the socioeconomic situation of women in Latin America and the Caribbean and to improve the performance of Bank projects by enhancing women's contributions. To assist project officers in this task, gender guidelines,...

La política en el campo de la mujer en el desarrollo señala la capacitación técnica, los servicios del mercado laboral y la formación profesional como áreas prioritarias de acción puesto que la mujer constituye un alto porcentaje de la población económicamente activa en América Latina...

Este estudio intenta captar la dinámica del proceso en el cual los jóvenes pasan del desempleo a la escuela, al empleo no remunerado y al empleo no calificado de bajos salarios, y su repercusión en los factores determinantes y en las políticas de desempleo juvenil. Este análisis de...

his policy analysis looks at the economic relationships between sectors, where formal and informal sectors are intimately linked in terms of youth and adult workers, where skilled workers and their shortages exist throughout all sectors of the economy, and where downsizing and technical change...

his policy analysis looks at the economic relationships between sectors, where formal and informal sectors are intimately linked in terms of youth and adult workers, where skilled workers and their shortages exist throughout all sectors of the economy, and where downsizing and technical change...

Este estudio intenta captar la dinámica del proceso en el cual los jóvenes pasan del desempleo a la escuela, al empleo no remunerado y al empleo no calificado de bajos salarios, y su repercusión en los factores determinantes y en las políticas de desempleo juvenil. Este análisis de...

This paper investigates the effects of political (mis)alignment on public service delivery when mandates are shared between state and local governments. We analyze sewage treatment policies in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Relying on difference-in-differences estimations, we establish a...

This paper provides the first experimental evaluation of the participatory budgeting model showing that it increased public participation in the process of public decision making, increased local tax revenues collection, channeled larger fractions of public budgets to services stated as top...

This working paper advances research on inequality with unique, new data on income distribution in 61 countries, including 20 Latin American countries, to explore the effects of political parties on redistribution. First, consistent with a central, but still contested, assumption of the...