This paper presents the evaluation of the Enterprise Restructuring Support Program in Argentina. The aim of the program was to increase the competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises by cofinancing technical assistance that can be classified as either support for process innovation or support for product innovation. Although these types of programs do not primarily aim to create jobs, they are implemented assuming that they do, or at least that they do not destroy jobs. This paper tests this assumption.

Social media has become an increasingly important means of communicating for governments, practitioners, and activists in the Inter-American Development Bank’s borrowing member countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.

In addition to the supply of an essential input for the operation of a building such as electricity, the use of photovoltaic solar energy can pursue economic objectives, by reducing the cost of energy and environmental supplies, by replacing a source of energy pollutant from a source of clean energy.

New technological trends, such as digitization, artificial intelligence and robotics, have the power to drastically increase economic output but may also displace workers. In this paper we assess the risk of automation for female and male workers in four Latin American countries Bolivia, Chile, Colombia and El Salvador. Our study is the first to apply a task-based approach with a gender perspective in this region.

Considerations that can facilitate dialogue and coordination among governments and indigenous populations in specific contexts regarding COVID-19 management. These considerations complement the guides and protocols prepared by health authorities -both nationally and subnationally-, with the purpose of improving the intervention of health agents through cost-effective actions and reducing stress over sanitary systems.

This document summarizes some of the actions taken by the indigenous peoples of Latin America to confront COVID-19. It aims to be a support for the communities and their authorities in decision-making and the implementation of virus prevention and containment actions from their community reality.

This Technical Note describes the process of designing a behavioral intervention to help reduce the prevalence of anemia in children in El Salvador. It first describes a traditional micronutrient distribution program for rural households. The analysis shows that although implementation was relatively successful, and take-up high, adherence to the full treatment of micronutrients was much lower.

The Venezuelan migration to Peru has been growing at fast speed since 2016 reaching a peak in 2018. Using a panel that allows us to control for individual effects, we study the heterogeneous short-term responses to the inflow of Venezuelan migrants in terms of employment, informality and earnings of Peruvian workers during 2008-2018.

Popular empirical strategies that examine the labor impacts of migrants, like the skill-cell approach, are frequently used to measure the effects of immigrants from a particular skill group on native-born workers with similar skills. I use an augmented version of the skill-cell approach to examine the impacts of immigrants on native workers with similar skills but also across skill groups. I apply this approach to the case of Nicaraguan immigrants in Costa Rica. I find large positive employment and wage effects on high-skilled women arising from low-skilled migrants.

Technology has comprehensively transformed societies. We work, interact, buy, and travel differently from what we did in the past decade. The speed with which changes will continue to alter our reality will only increase, so it is necessary if we want professionals trained for the Fourth Industrial Revolution and a solid business fabric that those of us in education face the current and future challenges head-on.