Documentos e informes

Policies for Aspirations. And Opportunities (Inglés)

Policy interventions that foster aspirations, such as those using role models, are increasingly being implemented so that students, women, microentrepreneurs, farmers, and poor individuals can achieve...

The Power and Roots of Aspirations : A Survey of the Empirical Evidence (Inglés)

Aspirations have become a common theme in empirical economics studies, but there is no unified understanding of the range of outcomes they influence, the factors that shape them, and how to measure them...

What Do 50 Years of Census Records and Household Survey Data Tell Us about Human Opportunities and Welfare in Latin America ? (Inglés)

To comprehend how development really happens, it is necessary to understand the evolution of its drivers and their relationship with individuals' income. This paper analyzes the expansion of access to...

Behavioral Science Around the World: Profiles of 10 Countries (Inglés)

With an increasing number of public bodies became interested in leveraging behavioral insights for improving policies and services, questions have emerged around how best to integrate this function into...

The changing way governments talk about poverty and inequality : evidence from two centuries of Latin American presidential speeches (Inglés)

This study uses text mining techniques on almost 900 presidential "state-of-the-union"--type speeches from 10 Latin American countries from 1819 to 2016. The paper documents a sharp increase in recent...

Winners never quit, quitters never grow : using text mining to measure policy volatility and its link with long-term growth in Latin America (Inglés)

Although there is wide recognition of the negative consequences of policy volatility for countries' long-term economic growth, there is limited empirical work on this subject. One of the reasons is the...

How is the slowdown affecting households in Latin America and the Caribbean ? (Inglés)

This paper shows evidence that suggests the economic slowdown in Latin America and the Caribbean has already translated into slowing social gains, including decelerating poverty reduction, stagnating growth...

The World Bank Economic Review 31 (2) (Inglés)

The World Bank Economic Review is a professional journal used for the dissemination of research in development economics broadly relevant to the development profession and to the World Bank in pursuing...

How is the slowdown affecting households in Latin America and the Caribbean? (Inglés)

This paper shows evidence that suggests the economic slowdown in Latin America and the Caribbean has already translated into slowing social gains, including decelerating poverty reduction, stagnating growth...

When Winners Feel Like Losers : Evidence from an Energy Subsidy Reform (Inglés)

In 2011 the Government of El Salvador implemented a reform to the liquefied gas (LPG) subsidy that increased the welfare of households in all but the top two deciles of the income distribution. However...

Behavioral insights for development : Cases from Central America (Inglés)

Behavioral Insights for Development: Cases from Central America brings together a set of experiences that applied behavioral insights to different areas of public policy—in some cases through randomized...

El Salvador - Systematic country diagnostic : building on strengths for a new generation (Inglés)

Since the end of the Civil War in 1992, El Salvador has advanced on both the social and political fronts. Despite this progress and the recent reductions in income inequality, poverty remains high, largely...

A behavioral approach to water conservation: evidence from Costa Rica (Inglés)

This paper presents the design a set of three simple and replicable behavioral interventions, which use stickers that can be added to water bills at low cost, and test their impact on water consumption...

When winners feel like losers : evidence from an energy subsidy reform (Inglés)

In 2011 the Government of El Salvador implemented a reform to the gas subsidy that increased the welfare of households in all but the top two deciles of the income distribution. However, the reform turned...

El Salvador - Systematic country diagnostic : building on strengths for a new generation : El Salvador - Diagnóstico sistemático de país : construyendo sobre las fortalezas para una nueva generación (Español)

Since the end of the Civil War in 1992, El Salvador has advanced on both the social and political fronts. Despite this progress and the recent reductions in income inequality, poverty remains high, largely...

Growth Volatility in Paraguay : Sources, effects, and options (Vol. 1 of 2) (Inglés)

Costa Rica - Five years after CAFTA-DR assessing early results for the Costa Rican economy (Vol. 2 of 2) : Costa Rica - A cinco años del CAFTA-DR : evaluación de los resultados iniciales en la economía costarricense (Español)

The Dominican Republic - Central America - United States Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR) has been fundamental in creating a stable framework for Costa Rica's trade with the United States. For Costa Rica...

Costa Rica - Five years after CAFTA-DR assessing early results for the Costa Rican economy (Vol. 1 of 2) (Inglés)

The Dominican Republic - Central America - United States Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR) has been fundamental in creating a stable framework for Costa Rica's trade with the United States. For Costa Rica...

Growth Volatility in Paraguay : Sources, effects, and options (Vol. 2 of 2) : Supplementary volume with selected background papers (Inglés)

Public expenditures for decentralized governance in Honduras : towards restoring fiscal consolidation : Honduras - Analisis del gasto publico : hacia el restablecimiento de la consolidacion fiscal (Español)

Fiscal consolidation remains the central challenge facing Honduras, mainly due to increasing current expenditures. The widening fiscal deficit has been driven by a significant increase in current expenditures...