• Integração das Fontes Renováveis Intermitentes na América Latina: Brasil, Chile e Uruguai 

      Tomalsquim, Mauricio (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, ...
    • Integrating Early-life Shocks and Human Capital Investments on Children´s Education 

      Duque, Valentina; Rosales-Rueda, María; Sánchez, Fabio (CAF; Colombia, 2016-10-04)
      This study investigates how early-life conditions interact with subsequent human capital investments to influence future educational outcomes. To provide causal evidence, we exploit two sources of exogenous variation: i) ...
    • Integration in the Caribbean 

      Allub, Lian; Schliesser, Reinier (CAF-Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean; Caracas, 2023-07)
      Trade and economic integration improve welfare and productivity through several channels. Trade increases market size to export and import, promotes gains from specialization and economies of scale, and foster innovation ...
    • Inteligencia artificial para la recuperación pospandemia 

      Gustavo Corvalán, Juan; Rodríguez, Martha (Claudia Flores, Nathalie Gerbasi, María Isabel Mejía, Martha Rodríguez y Antonio Silveira; Caracas, 2022)
      La inteligencia artificial (IA) se ha convertido en una de las herramientas más utilizadas por las autoridades y comunidades para actuar ante la crisis ocasionada por la pandemia del COVID-19. Este documento presenta ...
    • Inteligencia artificial para la recuperación pospandemia. Informe 3 

      Corvalán, Juan Gustavo (CAF; Caracas, 2022-06-30)
      Este estudio continúa con la serie sobre el uso e impacto de la IA en el sector público en América Latina, y analiza la evolución y enseñanzas del uso de inteligencia artificial (IA) previo, durante y después del pico de ...
    • Inteligencia artificial y telemedicina en el sector de la salud - Oportunidades y desafíos 

      De Cecco, Carlo; Van Assen, Marly (Claudia Flores, Nathalie Gerbasi, María Isabel Mejía, Martha Rodríguez y Antonio Silveira; Caracas, 2022)
      La inteligencia artificial (IA) permite la automatización de tareas y ayuda a la planificación de la atención, el diagnóstico y el pronóstico de pacientes. La telemedicina y la IA aplicada al diagnóstico y tratamiento de ...
    • Inteligencia artificial y telemedicina en el sector de la salud - Oportunidades y desafíos. Informe 4 

      De Cecco, Carlo; Van Assen, Marly (CAF; Caracas, 2022-06-30)
      Este cuarto estudio se enfoca en las oportunidades y desafíos que presenta el uso de la inteligencia artificial y la telemedicina en el sector de la salud. Incluye además una visión sobre la forma en que la universidad de ...
    • Inter-generational Persistence in the Ownership of Real Assets: Evidence from Latin America 

      Álvarez-Parra, Fernando; Carbonari, Victoria (CAF, 2023-05-19)
      We explore inter-generational mobility in assets ownership for Latin America. Our findings confirm the strong correlation between parents and offspring ownership, even after controlling for education and labor outcomes. ...
    • Inter-jurisdictional coordination in the management of natural resources: evidence from water basin committees in Brazil 

      Mobarak Mushfiq, Ahmed; Lipscomb, Molly (CAF; Caracas, 2009)
      Decentralized management of public goods creates the potential for spillovers across jurisdictions. These spillovers may be particularly large in the case of river management where the river has little value to upstream ...
    • Intergenerational earnings mobility and macroeconomic shocks: Evidence based on administrative records 

      Leites, Martín; Pérez, Tatiana; Ramos, Xavier; Santín, Sofía; Vilá, Joan (CAF; Caracas, 2022-04-26)
      This paper provides novel evidence on trends in intergenerational earnings mobility in a developing country and explores some transmission mechanisms associated with the characteristics of the labor market. Using a novel ...
    • Intergenerational mobility in education in Latin America 

      Neidhöfer, Guido; Ciaschi, Matías; Gasparini, Leonardo (CAF; Caracas, 2021-12-15)
      This document provides a comprehensive analysis of intergenerational mobility in Latin America, focusing on the association between parental education and the education of their children. It updates the estimates provided ...
    • Intergenerational transmission of teen childbearing in Latin America 

      Machado, Matilde P.; Mora, Ricardo; Olivo, Karen (CAF; Caracas, 18/07/2023)
      Using DHS data for six Latin American countries, we estimate the relation between a mother’s teenage childbearing status and that of her daughter. Restricting the estimating sample to mother-daughter matches in the data ...
    • International negotiations and agreements on climate change 

      Stevenson, Hayley (CAF; Caracas, 2023-05)
      This paper analyzes the political economy of international climate change negotiations, with emphasis on the perspectives of countries in this region. It offers an overview of the historical and recent negotiations and ...
    • Internet and Labor Income: Places and Activities in Colombia 

      Martin, Diego A. (CAF; Bogotá, 2016-12-21)
      Despite the literature in the richest countries about the positive correlation between Internet and income, there is still an open question about the utility of this technology the developing world. This paper uses Propensity ...
    • Interoperabilidad de datos entre reguladores y regulados como principal apuesta de la transformación digital en regulación 

      López Azumendi, Sebastián; Pagani, Patricio; Perea Tobón, Tomás (CAF-Banco de Desarrollo de América Latina y el Caribe; Caracas, 2023-07)
      Basado en una reciente experiencia con ocho reguladores económicos gubernamentales de la región, este Policy Brief propone comenzar con pequeños pasos destinados a lograr la integración de datos entre reguladores y ...
    • Intra-bloc tariffs and preferential margins in trade agreements 

      Ornelas, Emanuel; Tovar, Patricia (CAF; Caracas, 2022-07-11)
      We study how countries choose intra-bloc tariffs and preferential margins in Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs). Our model indicates that countries should set systematically lower prefer-ential margins when the bloc takes ...
    • Invertir para la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional en América Latina y el Caribe 

      CAF-GERENCIA DE DESARROLLO SOCIAL Y HUMANO. Dirección de proyectos de desarrollo social (CAF - banco de desarrollo de América Latina y el Caribe -; Caracas, 2024-03)
      En respuesta a los desafíos crecientes de inseguridad alimentaria y malnutrición en América Latina y el Caribe (ALC), CAF —banco de desarrollo de América Latina y el Caribe— delineó una estrategia integral. Esta ...
    • Índice Govtech de ciudades Iberoamericanas 2023 

      Zapata, Enrique; Rogerson, Annys; Mbayo, Horlane; Ilda, Kate; Trim, Kirsty; Fuentes, Pablo; Escarlata, Jorge; Pasquarelli, Walter (CAF- banco de desarrollo de América Latina y el Caribe; Distrito Capital, 2023-09)
      Durante décadas, tanto los gobiernos nacionales como locales se han centrado en transformar la oferta de sus servicios ciudadanos de formatos tradicionales, presenciales y análogos hacia nuevos procedimientos digitales. ...
    • Job training, selection and self discovery 

      Ortega, Daniel; Mata, Adriana (CAF; Caracas, 2013)
      We randomly assign 1250 unemployed men and women to be invited once or twice to a specific-skills training program offered by a large multinational firm as part of its social responsibility efforts. Individuals with the ...
    • Jobs’ amenability is not enough: The role of household inputs for safe work under social distancing in Latin American cities 

      Berniell, Lucila; Fernandez, Daniel (CAF; Caracas, 2020-06-01)
      The recent literature has emphasized the role of occupations in quantifying the amount of telework possible under social distancing measures during the COVID-19 outbreak. However, telework requires not only a teleworkable ...