2024: Training provided to the Central American Monetary Council: Nowcasting the quarterly GDP using machine learning. IDB headquarters, Washington DC.
2023-2024: Measuring the Economic Impact of Violence in Haiti. IDB headquarters, Washington DC.
2023-2024: Measuring the impact of IDB’s operations in Haiti using satellital data. IDB headquarters, Washington DC.
2023: Methodological proposal to measure the proportion of informal businesses capable of transitioning to formality: the case of Colombia and Peru. ILO Regional Office for LAC, Lima.
2023: Training provided to the Research Department of the Central Bank of Belize: Nowcasting the quarterly GDP using machine learning. IDB - Country Office of Belize.
2023: Training provided to the Institut Haitien de Statistique et d’Informatique (IHSI): Nowcasting the quarterly GDP using machine learning. IDB - Country Office of Haiti
2022: Estimating the determinants of chronic malnutrition in Guatemala. UNICEF Country Office of Guatemala.
2022: Measuring scarring effects on output and labour markets due to the COVID-19 pandemic in El Salvador. IDB - Country Office of El Salvador.
2022-2024: Huella: Are IDB projects transforming CID communities? Measuring results using innovative methods. Measuring the causal impact of IDB’s operations in 10 countries using satellital data. This project has won the Innovation Team Award at IDB Group, category ”Digital Transformation” IDB headquarters, Washington DC.
2022: How can drivers of forced migration be reduced in Northern Triangle countries through community employment opportunities? IDB - Country Office of El Salvador.
2022: Estimating the quality hurdle for Colombian SMEs (With Piero Ghezzi). IDB Country Office of Colombia.
2021-2022: Creation of the Nowcasting System to measure the evolution of the quarterly GDP in Mexico, Central-America, Dominican Republic and Haiti using machine learning. This consultancy has been commissioned by the IDB’s Country Department Central America, Haiti, Mexico, Panama and the Dominican Republic. Apart from crating the databases and developing 6 machine learning models for nowcasting, I gave training to the country economist in each of the 10 countries in the department. IDB headquarters, Washington DC.
2021: Estimating the quality hurdle for Salvadorean SMEs (With Piero Ghezzi). IDB - Country Office of El Salvador.
2021: Measuring the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on labour markets in Guatemala. ILO Regional Office of Costa Rica in San Jose.
2021: Measuring the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on labour markets in Costa Rica. ILO Regional Office of Costa Rica in San Jose.
2021: Measuring the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on labour markets in El Salvador. ILO Regional Office of Costa Rica in San Jose.
2021: Measuring the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on labour markets in Honduras. ILO Regional Office of Costa Rica in San Jose.
2020: Nowcasting the quarterly GDP of Belize using machine learning techniques. IDB - Country Office of Belize.
2020: Nowcasting the quarterly GDP of El Salvador using machine learning techniques. IDB - Country Office of El Salvador.
2020: Impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on labour markets in Honduras – A Compact Computable General Equilibrium approach. ILO Regional Office of Costa Rica in San Jose.
2020: Construction of a Compact Computable General Equilibrium for El Salvador. IDB - Country Office of El Salvador.
2019: Construction of the Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for El Salvador (2014) and Panama (2016). Calibration of Compact General Equilibrium Models for each country using the corresponding SAM. Central-American Institute for Fiscal Studies in Guatemala.
2018: Demographic transition: opportunities and challenges to achieve the SDGs in Latin America and the Caribbean Production of the National Time Transfers Accounts (NTTA) for El Salvador. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean in Chile.