Hacia Economias De Aprendizaje En America Latina Y El Caribe
Latin America has lost a century of growth due to its inability to learn: to identify, adapt, and implement new technologies emerging from the Second Industrial Revolution. Building learning economies will require increasing the demand for knowledge, facilitating new ideas, and supporting the ongoing process of experimentation.
Climate change is the defining development challenge of our time. More than a global environmental issue, climate change and variability threaten to reverse recent progress in poverty reduction and economic growth. Both now and over the long run, climate change and variability threatens human and social development by restricting the fulfillment ......
This report argues that resilience to climate change will ultimately depend on the adaptation decisions of millions of individual households, farms, and firms. The report offers several broad principles to guide policy and proposes specific policy actions to build resilience.
Objectives, Behavioral Responses, and Technological Advances
This report re-evaluates taxation in Latin America and the Caribbean, expanding the focus from collection efficiency and equity to include economic growth as a key objective. It examines how taxpayer behavior and technological advancements affect the effectiveness and trade-offs of core taxes, and calls for a nuanced, context-specific approach.
Objectives, Behavioral Responses, and Technological Advances
This report re-evaluates taxation in Latin America and the Caribbean, expanding the focus from collection efficiency and equity to include economic growth as a key objective. It examines how taxpayer behavior and technological advancements affect the effectiveness and trade-offs of core taxes, and calls for a nuanced, context-specific approach.
This book reviews existing risk mitigation instruments--guarantee and insurance products--primarily focusing on those offered by multilateral and bilateral official agencies, and presents with case transactions recent trends and developments that make these instruments conducive in securing financing for infrastructure projects in developing ......
Developing East Asia has shown how rapid and broadly shared growth can lift millions out of poverty. But inclusive growth is not assured. This book is about how countries in the region can confront challenges such as a growing concentration of income and wealth, limited access to social services, and rapid aging to achieve inclusive growth.
Robots, artificial intelligence, and digital platforms are affecting growth and jobs by creating new tasks, enhancing labor productivity, and displacing workers. To adapt, the region needs to enhance skills, facilitate mobility, remove factor price distortions, and provide social insurance for workers in the new digital ecoomy.
