Listar06. Documentos de trabajo por tema "Ciudades"
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Income Segregation and Urban Spatial Structure: Evidence from Brazil
(CAF; Caracas, 2016-08-05)We estimate the effect of urban spatial structure on income segregation in Brazilian cities between 2000 and 2010. Our results show that, first, local density conditions increase income segregation: the effect is higher ... -
Integração das Fontes Renováveis Intermitentes na América Latina
(CAF; Caracas, 2017)Em vários países, a política energética é crescentemente conduzida para incrementar a participação de fontes renováveis de energia na geração de eletricidade, em função da necessidade de aumentar a segurança do abastecimento, ... -
Local economic development. Some cities develop more than others: specialization, human capital and institutions
(CAF; Caracas, 2009)Why does a certain metropolitan area grow more than another? The answer to this question has evaded much of the considerable body of scholarship on the topic. One problem may be that some of the frameworks that drive ... -
Measuring the Cost of Congestion in Highly Congested City: Bogotá
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-04)We provide a novel approach to estimate the deadweight loss of congestion. We implement it for road travel in the city of Bogotá using information from a travel survey and counterfactual travel data generated from Google ... -
Measuring the size and growth of cities using nighttime light
(CAF; Caracas, 2018-09-20)This paper uses high-resolution images of nighttime luminosity to estimate a globally comparable measure of the size of metropolitan areas around the world for the years 2000 and 2010. We apply recently-proposed methodologies ... -
Mecanismo para a Integração das Energias Renováveis Intermitentes: Armazenamento
(CAF; Caracas, 2017)Os combustíveis fósseis possuem duas características importantes, além de serem fontes de alta concentração energética: eles podem ser armazenados até o momento em que seu uso for necessário, e podem ser transportados para ... -
Mecanismo para a Integração das Energias Renováveis Intermitentes: Redes Elétricas Inteligentes/Respostas pelo Lado da Demanda
(CAF; Caracas, 2017)a redução das emissões estão impulsionando os governos a investir no uso de energias renováveis para geração de eletricidade. Apesar dos importantes benefícios oferecidos pela geração a partir de fontes renováveis, a ... -
Medición de los determinantes de la productividad en Ciudades de América Latina
(CAF; Caracas, 2021-12-14)El presente documento desarrolla un conjunto de indicadores para medir los determinantes de la productividad en las ciudades de América Latina. Su objetivo es caracterizar los determinantes que pueden ser intervenidos desde ... -
Medición de los niveles de productividad de las ciudades en América Latina
(CAF; Caracas, 2021-12-29)Este documento presenta datos sobre productividad a nivel de ciudad para 279 ciudades de 12 países de América Latina. Para esto se utilizan los datos de salario horario de las encuestas de hogares oficiales de los países. ... -
Moving Citizens and Deterring Criminals: Innovation in Public Transport Facilities
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2016-11)This paper explores the relationship between urban public transportation innovation and crime. In 2004, the city of Medellin in Colombia developed an innovative public transportation system based on cable cars (Metrocable) ... -
Portugal: Leapfrogging Digital Transformation
(CAF; Caracas, 2021-07-14)This report is structured as follow: Section 1 presents details about Portugal enabling or inhibiting its digital transformation. Section 2 analyzes the main motivations for the digital transformation strategy; Section 3 ... -
Principais mecanismos de viabilização das fontes intermitentes no sistema elétrico latino-americano: Medidas operacionais e Geração flexível
(CAF; Caracas, 2017)O grande desenvolvimento da energia hidrelétrica na América Latina colaborou para que a sua matriz elétrica pudesse ter a menor intensidade em carbono do mundo. Esta fonte renovável tem sido a mais importante, em termos ... -
The GovTech Index 2020 Unlocking the Potential of GovTech Ecosystems in Latin America, Spain and Portugal
(CAF, Oxford Insights; Caracas, 2020-06-02)The emergence of GovTech startups is probably one of the most promising trends in the public innovation landscape in recent years. GovTech ecosystems are made of a new brand of tech-based, data-driven startups with a public ... -
The pharmacological channel revisited: alcohol sales restrictions and crime in Bogotá
(CAF; Caracas, 2013)Our goal in this paper is twofold: First, evaluate the impact on crime of the restriction of latenight alcohol sales in Bogotá; and second, quantify the causal effect of problematic alcohol consumption on different crime ... -
Transit Infrastructure and Couples’ Commuting Choices in General Equilibrium
(CAF; Caracas, 2022-07-22)What is the impact of improving the transit infrastructure on the gender earnings gap? How does family structure matter to un‐derstand the impact of new transit infrastructure? Recent mod‐els on spatial economics hinge on ... -
Valuation of Public Amenities and Differences in Quality of Life among Latin American Cities
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2016-11)We use a life satisfaction approach for the valuation of public goods and amenities in Latin American cities. We apply a homogenous database of seventeen cities gathered by the Development Bank of Latin America CAF. Using ... -
What is the Role of Urban Growth on Inequality, and Segregation? The Case of Urban Argentina´s Urban Agglomerations
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2016-11)We analyze the relationship between urban sprawl and changing patterns of inequality and segregation in metropolitan areas of Argentina. The existing literature has endeavored to study the determinants of the expansion of ...