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  • OLAS Population-based Water Stress and Risk Dataset for Latin America and the Caribbean
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    By Water and Sanitation Division (VPS/INE/WSA)
    LAC is the most water-rich region in the world by most metrics; however, water resource distribution throughout the region does not correspond demand. To understand water risk throughout the region, this dataset provides population and land area estimates for factors related to water risk, allowing users to explore vulnerability throughout the region to multiple dimensions of water risk. This dataset contains estimates of populations living in areas of water stress and risk in 27 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) at the municipal level. The dataset contains categories of 18 factors related to water risk and 39 indices of water risk and population estimates within each with aggregations possible at the basin, state, country, and regional level. The population data used to generate this dataset were obtained from the WorldPop project 2020 UN-adjusted population projections, while estimates of water stress and risk come from WRI’s Aqueduct 3.0 Water Risk Framework....
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    Country Argentina · Bahamas · Barbados ...

    Temporal coverage 2020-2020

    Published date 2023-03-16

  • Data associated with: Benchmarking Container Port Technical Efficiency in Latin America and the Caribbean: 1999–2009
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    By Infrastructure and Energy Sector (VPS/INE/INE)
    This database includes the technical efficiency scores derived from a stochastic frontier model for 63 container ports in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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    Country Argentina · Aruba · Bahamas ...

    Temporal coverage 1999-2009

    Published date 2016-08-29

  • Tax Reforms in Latin America in an Era of Democracy. A Database (2014 Update)
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    By Department of Research and Chief Economist (VPS/RES/RES)
    This document presents the codebook for a novel database of tax reforms for Latin America between 1990 and 2004 using the Worldwide Tax Summaries of PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC). The constraint we face is the interruption of the publication of our main source of information, the PriceWaterhouseCoopers International Tax Summaries, in 2005. This database can be used for studying the political economy of tax reforms in Latin America as it is shown in the accompanying paper “Tax Reforms in Latin America in an Era of Democracy”. Table 1 summarizes all the reforms that have been coded and that are in the accompanying stata dta file. Table 2 presents the detailed reforms.
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    Country Argentina · Bolivia · Brazil ...

    Temporal coverage 1990-2004

    Published date 2015-03-04

  • Survey of exporting firms in Latin America and the Caribbean: Understanding the new export DNA (Third Edition,...
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    By Productivity, Trade and Innovation Sector (VPS/PTI/PTI)
    The Institute for the Integration of Latin America and the Caribbean (INTAL) of the Integration and Trade Sector of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) conducted this survey of Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) companies that export both within the region and outside the region. The objective of the analysis is to understand how their exports are evolving, what problems they face, what measures they have taken, what public support policies they have received, and what the prospective vision of the companies is.
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    Country Argentina · Bahamas · Ecuador ...

    Temporal coverage 2020-2022

    Published date 2021-09-22

  • OLAS Simplified GLAAS - WASH Governance
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    By Water and Sanitation Division (VPS/INE/WSA)
    The OLAS Simplified GLAAS for LAC dataset provides information on water and sanitation governance in 30 countries across Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) from 2018 and 2021. The data is from the UN-Water Global Analysis and Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking-Water (GLAAS), which is a global survey carried out by UN Water and the World Health Organization (WHO) that collects country-level information on provision of water, sanitation, and hygiene services. The survey covers topics like governance, monitoring, finance, and human resources in the sector. This simplified version of the dataset contains information relevant to WASH governance in LAC. Additional data can be found in the GLAAS Data Portal: https://glaas.who.int/ Source: WHO, UN-Water Global Analysis and Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking-Water, 2018-19 and 2021-22, accessed April 2023. With acknowledgement of the countries in Latin America and the Caribbean who contributed to this survey.
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    Country Anguilla · Antigua and Barbuda · Argentina ...

    Temporal coverage 2018-2022

    Published date 2023-05-09