Listar06. Documentos de trabajo por tema "Ciudades"
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10 Propostas para a Cidade Latino-americana Pós-COVID-19
(CAF; Caracas, 2021-04-28)O CAF, por meio de sua iniciativa “Cidades com Futuro”, busca promover ações que fortaleçam o acesso às oportunidades oferecidas pelas cidades latino-americanas, melhorando os níveis de inclusão social nas mesmas, ... -
10 Propuestas para la Ciudad Latinoamericana Pos-COVID-19
(CAF; Caracas, 2021-04-28)CAF, a través de su iniciativa Ciudades con Futuro, busca promover acciones que fortalezcan el acceso a las oportunidades que brindan las ciudades latinoamericanas, mejorando en ellas los niveles de inclusión social; ... -
Asociación Público-Privada en Infraestructuras Energéticas: Experiencias en América Latina
(CAF; Caracas, 2017)Las infraestructuras energéticas en América Latina merecen un estudio particular en lo que se refiere a la APP. Sus distintos marcos regulatorios y grados de madurez institucional y operacional, la hacen contar con un mapa ... -
Bimodal Transport Infrastructure and Regional Development: Evidence from Argentina, 1960 - 1991
(CAF; Caracas, 2021-04-13)We estimate the impact of railroad and road infrastructure on local economic development through the study of massive transport infrastructure changes in Argentina. Following a World Bank study, 10,000 kilometers of railroads ... -
Characterizing Fuel Choices and Fuelwood Use for Residential Heating and Cooking in Urban Areas of Central-Southern Chile: the Role of Prices, Income, and the Availability of Energy Sources and Technology
(CAF; Caracas, 2017-04-24)This paper analyzes empirically the determinants of fuel choices and intensity of fuelwood use for residential heating and cooking in central-southern Chile. By using information from a sample of 2,761 households in nine ... -
City Size, Distance and Formal Employment Creation
(CAF; Caracas, 2016-10-09)Cities thrive through the diversity of their occupants because the availability of complementary skills enables firms in the formal sector to grow, delivering increasingly sophisticated products and services. The appearance ... -
Crime under Lockdown: The Impact of COVID-19 on Citizen Security in the City of Buenos Aires
(CAF; Caracas, 2021-08-18)This paper studies the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdown on criminal activity in the City of Buenos Aires, Argentina. We find a large, significant, robust, and immediate decline in crime following ... -
Un desarrollo urbano sostenible con más inclusión y productividad
(CAF; Caracas, 2021-08-18)Frente a la tragedia que han significado las muertes, la destrucción de puestos de trabajo y pérdidas económicas causadas por el COVID-19, los problemas históricos de las ciudades de América Latina han cobrado una mayor ... -
Determinants of Slum Formation: The Role of Local Politics and Policies
(CAF; Caracas, 2018-01)One-third of the developing world’s population lives in urban slums and the absolute number of slum residents grew from 650 million in 1990 to 863 million in 2012. Although negative impacts of slum living conditions on ... -
Effect of Socio-Economic Stratification on House Value in Bogotá
(CAF; Bogotá, 2016-12-24)This paper investigates the impact of urban fiscal policies on housing value. We use a focalization system in Bogotá where certain subsidies and taxes are targeted based on a classification of houses according to external ... -
Encuestas de movilidad, oportunidades, dilemas técnicos, institucionales y de política pública. El caso de la encuesta de movilidad del área metropolitana de Montevideo
(CAF; Montevideo, 2016-11-11)Las encuestas de movilidad juegan un rol central para la planificación de los sistemas de movilidad urbana. Tienen por tanto una incidencia significativa en una de las políticas urbanas con mayor trascendencia en la vida ... -
Estados ágiles en América Latina: la transformación digital y la simplificación de trámites del sector público de Argentina
(CAF; Caracas, 2020-11-12)Argentina inició en diciembre de 2015 un ambicioso proyecto de digitalización del sector público federal. Como consecuencia de dicho proceso, se pasó de una administración basada en papel a una gestión pública ... -
Evaluating the Impact of Buenos Aires’s Metrobus on Within-City Spatial Sorting
(CAF; Caracas, 2022-06-14)How do improvements in the urban transport infrastructure affect the spatial sorting of residents with different levels of in-come and education within a city? What are the welfare effects of improving urban transit once ... -
Exploring the Potential of Machine Learning for Automatic Slum Identification from VHE Imagery
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2016-11-23)Slum identification in urban settlements is a crucial step in the process of formulation of propoor policies. However, the use of conventional methods for slums detection such as field surveys may result time consuming and ... -
Govtech e o futuro do governo: o caso da Gove no Brasil
(CAF; Caracas, 2020-07-06)Este estudo apresenta a experiência de criação e implementação da Gove, plataforma de decisão para e ciência de governos criada em 2016 para municípios brasileiros de diferentes portes. O estudo de caso, desenvolvido ... -
High-skilled workers´ segregation and productivity in Latin American cities
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2016-12)The aim of this work is to study the relationship between high-skilled workers’ segregation and productivity in Latin American cities. This relationship is not clear at first sight. On the one hand high-skilled workers’ ... -
How infrastructure shapes comparative advantage
(CAF; Caracas, 2022-06-30)This paper provides evidence that domestic trade costs are a source of comparative advantage. First, I build an international trade and internal geography model with transportation features and input-output linkages. Then, ... -
Income Segregation and Urban Spatial Structure: Evidence from Brazil
(CAF; Caracas, 2016-08-05)We estimate the effect of urban spatial structure on income segregation in Brazilian cities between 2000 and 2010. Our results show that, first, local density conditions increase income segregation: the effect is higher ... -
Integração das Fontes Renováveis Intermitentes na América Latina
(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, ... -
Local economic development. Some cities develop more than others: specialization, human capital and institutions
(CAF; Caracas, 2009)Why does a certain metropolitan area grow more than another? The answer to this question has evaded much of the considerable body of scholarship on the topic. One problem may be that some of the frameworks that drive ...
