This book describes the leading role the IDB played in Central America's development in the 1990s, which was a time of redefining the role of the State, building new relationships with the private sector and civil society, and launching social programs to address the alarming levels of poverty...

El presente documento muestra los resultados de una revisión selectiva de las operaciones del BID destinadas a la creación, desarrollo y/o fortalecimiento de capacidades institucionales en países de la región. Se consideraron ejemplos de Argentina, Colombia, El Salvador y Perú, y se...

This report provides systematized information to guide Regional Dialogue efforts. It emphasizes the efforts Southern Cone countries should undertake to consolidate environmental administration and sustainable development. The report is based on three central themes: 1) identification and...

El propósito de esta nota técnica es reseñar el marco conceptual y metodológico de la EASE y presentar los resultados obtenidos en la aplicación de esa herramienta de planificación en el Grupo 2 de Proyectos del Eje del Sur. Como se desprende de la lectura de esta nota, el ejercicio...

This report provides systematized information to guide Regional Dialogue efforts. It emphasizes the efforts Southern Cone countries should undertake to consolidate environmental administration and sustainable development. The report is based on three central themes: 1) identification and...

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...