Demographic Observatory Latin America and the Caribbean 2023. Population dynamics in Latin America and their effects on the labour force
In this edition of the Demographic Observatory, the impact of population dynamics is illustrated through an analysis of selected indicators of labour force estimates and projections by sex, age and area of residence for the 1980–2050 period in the 20 countries of Latin America
2024 Latin American and Caribbean Macroeconomic Report: Ready for Take-Off? Building on Macroeconomic Stability for Growth
Latin America and the Caribbean overcame significant economic challenges in 2023 and exceeded growth expectations thanks to the strong macroeconomic fundamentals it laid in recent years. The 2024 Latin America and Caribbean Macroeconomic Report analyzes the opportunities and challenges facing the region as it embarks on this journey.
Meanings of Public and the Future of Public Services
Critically assessing meanings of the term “public”, this book situates the emergence and expansion of “public services” within market-based forms of production and consumption. It highlights the potential for making public services more progressive within market societies, but underscores their ongoing capture by private interests and emphasises the inherent limits of reform within a “bourgeois public sphere”.
The Political Economy of Slum Growth: Evidence from Brazil
This paper provides evidence from
Brazil that local government actions can increase slum growth
without changes in poverty or immigration. Using a regression discontinuity design in close elections, I find that victories
by a center-left, pro-poor party in the 2000 municipal election
strongly increased the share of households living in slums in
2010 compared to 2000.
BCIE: Informe de coyuntura económica enero 2023
El informe mensual de coyuntura económica de enero presenta un análisis ad hoc del desempeño macroeconómico del mundo en general y de Centroamérica en particular, con información disponible al 14 de febrero de 2023. Algunos países reportaron un crecimiento mayor al esperado en el último trimestre de 2022, y existe un mayor optimismo sobre las perspectivas futuras reflejado en una posibilidad menor de recesión económica mundial en 2023.
Finance for an Equitable Recovery
The Finance for An Equitable Recovery Report is a new World Development Report prepared by the staff of The World Bank with external contributions. The report focuses on the interconnected economic risks that households, businesses, financial institutions, and governments around the world face as a result of the COVID-19 crisis. The Report presents new research findings on the interconnectedness of balance sheets and the potential spillover effects across sectors.
Financing for Development in the era of COVID-19 and beyond: Priorities of Latin America and the Caribbean in relation to the financing for development global policy agenda
The effects of the pandemic and the policies implemented in response have increased the liquidity needs of the countries of the region to confront the emergency phase. Within the current context of the pandemic, a financing for development agenda faces two interrelated challenges: short run and medium and long run challenges.
This report proposes a set of policy actions to address both challenges and then focuses on potential initiatives to build forward better.
Financing for Sustainable Development Report 2020
The report provides a comprehensive assessment of the state of sustainable finance. It brings together a wide range of expertise and perspectives, putting forward a set of policy recommendations to mobilize financing flows, and align them with economic, social and environmental priorities. The recommendations outlined in the report should assist Member States and all other stakeholders as they work toward fully implementing the Addis Ababa Action Agenda and achieve the SDGs.
Global Financial Development Report 2019/2020: Bank Regulation and Supervision a Decade after the Global Financial Crisis
This report examines these new data and both new and existing evidence on bank regulation and supervision to inform policy makers. The Global Financial Development Report 2019/2020 is the fifth of the World Bank series. It also tracks financial systems in more than 200 economies before and during the global financial crisis on an accompanying website (http://www.workdbank.org/en/publication/gfdr) and provides information on how banking systems are regulated and supervised around the world (http://www.worldbank.org/en/research/brief/BRSS)
Financing for Sustainable Development Report
The 2019 Financing for Sustainable Development Report, the fourth report of the Inter-agency Task Force on Financing for Development, provides a comprehensive assessment of the state of sustainable finance, four years after the adoption of the Addis Ababa Action Agenda. Prepared by more than 60 UN agencies, programmes and offices and other relevant international organizations, the report brings together a wide range of expertise and perspectives.