Este estudio es el resultado de una consultoría realizada en el segundo semestre de 2006, con la cual se busca definir y proponer una metodología para el cálculo de costos unitarios, la estimación de beneficios y la relación beneficio/costo de los proyectos entra 21. IYF seleccionó los dos...

Este estudio es el resultado de una consultoría realizada en el segundo semestre de 2006, con la cual se busca definir y proponer una metodología para el cálculo de costos unitarios, la estimación de beneficios y la relación beneficio/costo de los proyectos entra 21. IYF seleccionó los dos...

'Privatization in Latin America' evaluates the empirical evidence on privatization in a region that has witnessed an extensive decline in the state's share of production over the past 20 years. The book is a compilation of recent studies that provide a comprehensive analysis of the record of and...

We study the socio-economic gradient of child development on a representative sample of low- and middle-income children aged 6-42 months in Bogota, using the Bayley Scales of Infant Development, a high quality test based on direct observation of the child's abilities. We find a statistically...

Presents information about opportunity cost of attendance to school, touching on issues of the proper dimensioning of cash subsidies, the adequacy of the conditionality and operational issues associated with conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs. It then analyzes the challenge of increasing...

This discussion paper was presented in the seminar "First Meeting of the Social Policy Monitoring Network: Conditional Cash-Transfer Programs". In this paper the authors use an economic model to analyze data from a major randomized social experiment, namely PROGRESA in Mexico, and to evaluate...

Presents information about opportunity cost of attendance to school, touching on issues of the proper dimensioning of cash subsidies, the adequacy of the conditionality and operational issues associated with conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs. It then analyzes the challenge of increasing...