The objective of this effort is to produce a sub-regional exchange that can support the development of a frame of reference for the analysis that needs to be carried out on the topic. Rather than provide complete answers, the study seeks to present material for reflection, and although still...

The objective of this effort is to produce a sub-regional exchange that can support the development of a frame of reference for the analysis that needs to be carried out on the topic. Rather than provide complete answers, the study seeks to present material for reflection, and although still...

This presentation was commissioned by the Education Network of the Regional Policy Dialogue for the VIII Hemispheric Meeting celebrated on November 7th and 8th, 2005.

Este informe se basa en un estudio limitado, realizado a través de un cuestionario y de entrevistas con importantes funcionarios de los Ministerios de Educación en seis países del Caribe. El estudio fue limitado debido al corto tiempo disponible, y al escaso contacto que fue posible...

Esta presentación fue comisionada por la Red de Educación del Diálogo Regional de Política para la VIII Reunión Hemisférica celebrada los días 7 y 8 de noviembre de 2005.

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...

In the last decades, countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have experienced a dramatic increase in the levels of higher education enrollment. Using administrative data from Chile and Colombia, we find that this phenomenon is not always associated with higher private individual returns. In...

This paper develops a semiotic-inferential model of verbal communication for incomplete information games: a language is seen as a set of conventional signs that point to types, and the credibility of a message depends on the strategic context. Formally, there is an encoding-decoding step where...