The database allows estimating structural fiscal balances for 20 countries in the region under different assumptions regarding the output gap and commodity structural prices. It is a unique database of its kind since: 1) It takes into consideration the distinct responsiveness of different types of revenues to changes in the output gap: In order to adjust for the impact of the business cycle on revenues, we calculate individual elasticities for each source of revenue (i.e. direct taxes, indirect taxes, revenues from non-renewable resources, etc.). Since the different types of revenues in the region have different sensitivities to changes in the output gap, this disaggregated approach allows for a more fine-tuned adjustment. 2) It includes estimations of SFBs based on output gaps’ projections available in “real time”. In addition to giving estimations of the actual SFBs, we provide with estimations of the SFBs that would have resulted should the projections on output gaps available to policymakers at the time of designing fiscal policy (data in “real time”) have been correct. This is in contrast to much of the existing work on structural fiscal balances that makes only an “ex post” analysis using actual and revised information on the output gaps. 3) It allows assessing the response of fiscal policy to the business cycle. We provide with measures of the fiscal impulse, assessing not only the actual but also the intentional fiscal stance, as well as the degree of procyclicality of fiscal policy.

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The OECD/IDB indicators of employment protection legislation measure the procedures and costs involved in dismissing individuals or groups of workers and the procedures involved in hiring workers on fixed-term or temporary work agency contracts. The indicators have been compiled using IDB and OECD own reading of statutory laws, collective bargaining agreements and case law. The OECD Secretariat and the IDB equally share the responsibility of the interpretation of LAC countries’ statutory laws, collective bargaining agreements and case law.
This data base constitutes the first systematic approach to review and compare employment protection regulations in LAC, in a way that is also comparable with countries around the world.

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The survey dataset consolidates responses from central banks and banking supervisor authorities from 18 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. The main objective of the survey was to examine the adoption of Basel III standards across Latin American and Caribbean nations, focusing on capital and liquidity regulations, supervisory agency autonomy, and asset classification practices.

The survey covers nine topics:
1. Application of regulation and supervision
2. Concentration
3. Capital requirements
4. Liquidity requirements
5. Financial investment classification
6. Other prudential requirements
7. On supervision
8. On stress tests
9. Other

This database includes the technical efficiency scores derived from a stochastic frontier model for 63 container ports in Latin America and the Caribbean.

This dataset was created to support 2010 DIA - on the following topics: macroeconomics, productivity, services sectors

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Child well-being matters for both ethical and economic reasons as children who flourish in the early years are more likely to become healthy, productive citizens later in life. This year’s edition of Development in the Americas (DIA) focuses on the well-being of children from conception to 8 years of age and makes the case for public intervention in improving child outcomes. The process of child development—physical, communicational, cognitive, and socio-emotional— does not unfold on its own, but is shaped by the experiences children accumulate at home, in daycare centers, and at school. Parents, relatives, other caregivers, teachers, and government all have a hand in shaping those experiences. This book offers suggestions for public policy to improve those experiences in ways that would certainly shape children’s lives and the face of the societies they live in for years to come.

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This dataset was created to support 2006 IPES - The Politics of Policies on the following topics: macroeconomics, government and democracy.

Dataset related to the publication "Transformacao Digital dos Governos Brasileiros Satisfacao dos Cidados com os Serviços Públicos Digitais". The document summarizes the results of a new citizen satisfaction survey on digital public services in Brazil. It shows that the Brazilian population is connected and considers itself well adapted to the digital world, even with foreseeable inequalities of age, level of formal education and income. It aimed to collect information about the adaptation of citizens to the digital world, their level of perceived connectivity and internet use and their assessment of the quality of digital services in the public sector (focusing on the state level, but also with questions about the federal and municipal levels) and the private sector, among other topics.

El conjunto de datos se contextualiza en el marco regulatorio vigente de la educación superior en Bolivia. Se tiene información de la evolución del número de estudiantes de universidades públicas como privadas: nuevos, matriculados y titulados por área de conocimiento y carrera profesional, en los nueve departamentos del país a lo largo del periodo 2001-2016. La fuente de información es el Ministerio de Educación y el Comité Ejecutivo de la Universidad Boliviana (CEUB).