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  • Tables and Figures for: Salaried Labor Costs in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Ten - Year Update
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    By Social Protection and Labor Markets Division (VPS/SCL/SPL)
    The tension between productivity and labor costs in Latin America and the Caribbean remains one of the greatest challenges to creating formal employment. This note estimates the cost of salaried formal labor in 19 Latin American and Caribbean countries for 2023, updating two key indicators previously calculated by the IDB: the average non-wage cost of salaried labor (NWC) and the minimum cost of salaried labor (MCSL) and introducing a new measure: the cost of formalizing informal labor (CFIL). Results show that labor costs have risen since 2013, with increasing divergence across countries. In 2023, the regional average NWC reached 51.1% of formal wages, while the MCSL represented 43.1% of GDP per worker. The CFIL indicates that formalizing a worker costs, on average, 88% more than the informal wage. The note includes projections for 2025 to incorporate recent reforms in 6 countries. This dataset includes the country-level tables and figures for the three indicators of the cost of...
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    Country Honduras · Guatemala · Bolivia ...

    Temporal coverage 2013-2025

    Published date 2026-02-27

  • 2016 Cybersecurity Report Data Set
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    By Innovation in Citizen Services Division (VPS/IFD/ICS)
    Cybersecurity Dataset: Are We Ready in Latin America and the Caribbean? (2016) This dataset supports the 2016 Cybersecurity Report, Are We Ready in Latin America and the Caribbean?, produced by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Organization of American States (OAS), and Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre (GCSCC) at Oxford. Data were collected via an online survey using the Cybersecurity Capability Maturity Model (CMM), developed by the GCSCC. The survey was translated into English and Spanish. Following a pilot phase, it was administered to a diverse group of national stakeholders across 32 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. The responses were aggregated, reviewed, cleaned, and supplemented with additional information from external sources to ensure completeness and...
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    Country Antigua and Barbuda · Argentina · Dominica ...

    Temporal coverage 2015-2015

    Published date 2015-12-14

  • Sample Code for: Creating Public Payroll Indicators:  A Methodological Guide
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    By Innovation in Citizen Services Division (VPS/IFD/ICS)
    The R code is used to calculate and standardize payroll indicators from common-format personnel records. Specifically, it provides working examples for deriving each key indicator (wage bill growth, employment growth, average pay trajectories, pay equity, gender pay gap, turnover, promotions/career progression, and retirement projections), so governments can compute these measures for the whole administration, for specific agencies, or for employee subgroups (e.g., by job, gender, contract). The code also illustrates recommended calculations and helps address common data errors, enabling comparable, reproducible salary indicators across countries.
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    Country Latin America and the Caribbean

    Temporal coverage 2025-2025

    Published date 2025-11-06

  • Informing Citizen Security Policy: An Evidence Gap Map on Policing Interventions - Dataset
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    By Knowledge and Learning Division (VPS/VPS/KLD); Citizen Security Division (VPS/IFD/CIS)
    Citizen security remains one of the most pressing development challenges facing low- and middle-income countries around the globe. In Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), for example—a region where homicide rates have consistently remained more than three times the global average (UNODC, 2023; InSight Crime, 2024)—crime and violence are estimated to cost approximately 3.4% of the region’s GDP (IDB, 2024), whereas research suggests that bringing the crime level in Latin America down to the world average would boost LAC’s average annual growth rate by 0.5 percentage points (IMF, 2023). This Evidence Gap Map (EGM) focuses on citizen security interventions led or supported by police agencies, and maps existing impact evaluations and systematic reviews that examine the effectiveness of a wide range of policing interventions aimed at reducing crime, violence, disorder, overall insecurity, and their associated risk factors and underlying determinants. While some previous evidence maps...
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    Country Argentina · Australia · Austria ...

    Temporal coverage 1970-2025

    Published date 2025-10-15

  • Building Stronger Transport Policy: An Evidence Gap Map - Dataset
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    By Knowledge and Learning Division (VPS/VPS/KLD); Transport Division (VPS/INE/TSP)
    Efficient and reliable transport systems are central to economic growth, social inclusion, and environmental sustainability. In Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), transport and logistics performance remains below that of advanced economies, constraining access to services, social inclusion (Scholl et al., 2021), competitiveness, and productivity (Calatayud & Montes, 2021). The EGM, available at https://developmentevidence.3ieimpact.org/egm/transportation-evidence-gap-map, presents global effectiveness evidence on transportation interventions, including roads, regional transportation and logistics; urban mobility infrastructure; and laws, regulations, and policies governing public transit, mobility, traffic, and transportation. Financed and co-produced by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the EGM compiles, curates, and classifies studies that estimate causal effects, displaying where evidence is clustered and where gaps remain. It aims to help decision-makers...
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    Country United States · India · Colombia ...

    Temporal coverage 2005-2025

    Published date 2025-11-12