Documentos e informes
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Firms and Climate Change in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (Inglés)
Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) face a disproportionate burden from climate change, potentially threatening the operations and profitability of firms. Simultaneously, firms in LMICs may contribute...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS10644 Fecha del documento: 13 de diciembre de 2023 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Goicoechea,Ana,Lang,Megan Elizabeth
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Competitiveness Policy Evaluation Lab : Testing Interventions to Address Firm Constraints to Growth (Inglés)
This report summarizes the lessons and achievements from the implementation of ComPEL (The Competitiveness Policy Evaluation Lab) in FY17-22. ComPEL is an umbrella impact evaluation program set up in partnership...
Tipo de documento: Informe Número del informe: 177792 Fecha del documento: 1 de noviembre de 2022 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Goicoechea,Ana,Srinivasan,Nithya
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Too Much of a Good Thing : The Effect of Monitoring Intensity on Inspector Performance in Business Safety Inspections - Impact Evaluation Policy Brief (Inglés)
In Peru, business safety inspections, related to the risk of fire and collapse, which affect all businesses in the country, are characterized by misaligned incentives and high transaction costs. This can...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 175203 Fecha del documento: 4 de agosto de 2022 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Barron Ayllon,Manuel Fernando,Bedoya Arguelles,Guadalupe,Garcia Montufar Garcia,Diego,Gertler,Paul J.,Goicoechea,Ana
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Too Much of a Good Thing : The Effect of Monitoring Intensity on Inspector Performance in Business Safety Inspections (Inglés)
In collaboration with the ministry of housing, construction, and sanitation and the municipality of Lima in Peru, the authors used a randomized experiment to test whether intensive monitoring of inspectors...
Tipo de documento: Informe Número del informe: 175198 Fecha del documento: 4 de agosto de 2022 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Barron Ayllon,Manuel Fernando,Bedoya Arguelles,Guadalupe,Garcia Montufar Garcia,Diego,Gertler,Paul J.,Goicoechea,Ana
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The Impact of Electronic Recording of Business Inspections on Compliance with Regulatory Standards and Inspectors’ Performance (Inglés)
In Peru, the business safety inspection process, a requirement to obtain an operating license, is characterized by misaligned incentives and high transaction costs. These inefficiencies disproportionally...
Tipo de documento: Informe Número del informe: 175199 Fecha del documento: 4 de agosto de 2022 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Barron Ayllon,Manuel Fernando,Bedoya Arguelles,Guadalupe,Garcia Montufar Garcia,Diego,Gertler,Paul J.,Goicoechea,Ana
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Bulgaria - Efficiency Analysis of STI Programs : Executive Summary (Inglés)
Transitioning to a more knowledge- and technology-based economy will be critical if Bulgaria is to achieve convergence with its European peers in terms of economic productivity and living standards. The...
Tipo de documento: Informe Número del informe: 168583 Fecha del documento: 23 de junio de 2022 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Marc,Lukasz Marek,Querejazu,Daniel Enrique,Georgieva,Teodora Marinova,Dimitrova,Lyubomira Stoilova,Goicoechea,Ana,Kilinc,Umut
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Bulgaria - Efficiency Analysis of STI Programs (Inglés)
Transitioning to a more knowledge- and technology-based economy will be critical if Bulgaria is to achieve convergence with its European peers in terms of economic productivity and living standards. The...
Tipo de documento: Informe Número del informe: 168583 Fecha del documento: 31 de octubre de 2021 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Marc,Lukasz Marek,Querejazu,Daniel Enrique,Georgieva,Teodora Marinova,Dimitrova,Lyubomira Stoilova,Goicoechea,Ana,Kilinc,Umut
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Coding Bootcamps for Female Digital Employment : Evidence from an RCT in Argentina and Colombia (Inglés)
This paper evaluates the short-term causal effects of a high-quality, intensive, part-time computer coding bootcamp for women on skill acquisition and employment outcomes. Spots were offered in an oversubscribed...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS9721 Fecha del documento: 29 de junio de 2021 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Aramburu,Julian,Goicoechea,Ana,Mobarak,Ahmed Mushfiq
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Coding Bootcamps for Female Digital Employment : Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Argentina and Colombia (Inglés)
The increase in female labor force participation is among the most salient economic and social transformations in the world over the last fifty years, and Latin America is no exception. In this regard...
Tipo de documento: Informe Número del informe: 157740 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2021 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Aramburu,Julian,Goicoechea,Ana
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Less Burden, More Transparency, and Higher Quality : Electronic System for Business Safety Inspections in Peru (Inglés)
Business safety inspections are commonly cited as one of the most important bureaucratic barriers to doing business around the developing world (World Bank 2019, 2020). In Peru, the business safety inspection...
Tipo de documento: Informe Número del informe: 151049 Fecha del documento: 21 de julio de 2020 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Barron Ayllon,Manuel Fernando,Bedoya Arguelles,Guadalupe,Garcia Montufar Garcia,Diego,Goicoechea,Ana
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Preparing surveys for urban upgrading interventions : prototype survey instrument and user guide (Inglés)
Slum upgrading projects are designed to provide a package of basic services aimed at improving the living conditions of residents in low-income communities. These typically involve a range of infrastructure...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo Número del informe: 44467 Fecha del documento: 1 de marzo de 2008 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Goicoechea,Ana
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Utilities reforms and corruption in developing countries (Inglés)
This paper shows empirically that "privatization" in the energy, telecommunications, and water sectors, and the introduction of independent regulators in those sectors, have not always had the expected...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS4081 Fecha del documento: 1 de diciembre de 2006 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Estache,Antonio,Goicoechea,Ana,Trujillo Castellano,Lourdes
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Telecommunications performance, reforms, and governance (Inglés)
The authors assess the effects of private capital and independent regulatory agencies on telecommunications performance by using cross-country panel data from 1990 to 2003. In general, they find that having...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS3822 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2006 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Estache,Antonio,Goicoechea,Ana,Manacorda,Marco
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A "research" database on infrastructure economic performance (Vol. 1 of 2) (Inglés)
The authors present an infrastructure database that was assembled from multiple sources. Its main purposes are: (1) to provide a snapshot of the sector as of the end of 2004; and (2) to facilitate quantitative...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS3643 Fecha del documento: 1 de junio de 2005 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Estache,Antonio,Goicoechea,Ana
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How widespread were private investment and regulatory reform in infrastructure utilities during the 1990s? (Inglés)
This note provides a snapshot as of 2004 of the share of countries with an independent regulatory agency and with at least some private sector financing of its sectoral investment needs for electricity...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS3595 Fecha del documento: 1 de mayo de 2005 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Estache,Antonio,Goicoechea,Ana