Amanda Glassman

Bolivia’s stability and development matter for its people and for the region. We at the IDB Group are committed to supporting the country's efforts. ----- La estabilidad y el desarrollo de Bolivia son importantes para su gente y para la región. Desde el Grupo BID, mantenemos nuestro compromiso de apoyar los esfuerzos del país. ----- A estabilidade e o desenvolvimento da Bolívia são importantes para sua população e para a região. Desde o Grupo BID, seguimos comprometidos em apoiar os esforços do país.

How can we improve #HealthSystems in one of the world’s most complex territories? A recent study looks at the distribution and utilization of hospital services across the #Amazon region, using data from six countries. The results reveal that better infrastructure alone is not enough. Find out more 👉 bit.ly/4vHO49b #Amazonia #LatinAmerica #PublicHealth

The cocaine shock that spread through global trade Last month on VoxDev, Gianmarco Daniele (@LaStatale), Adam Soliman (@ClemsonEcon) & Vargas F. Juan (@CollegioCA @unito) discussed the violence that follows global trade networks for cocaine: voxdev.org/topic/institut…

IA en municipios: el programa “Ciudades por la Inteligencia Artificial” #AI para acelerar adopción responsable en la gestión local. El plan piloto considera 13 municipalidades y contempla acompañamiento técnico, formación y soporte continuo, con foco en soluciones éticas, seguras y eficientes para problemáticas territoriales. Con apoyo @IDB_Lab #Chile miradasurtv.cl/gobierno-lanza…

⏰ Last days to submit! Deadline for LACEA–LAMES 2026 is May 31, 2026. Present your research in Lima, Peru, Nov 12–14, 2026. ✍️ View details: lacealames2026.org Become a member: app.lacea.org

A big day for multi-agent AI to accelerate biomedical discovery, hypothesis generation, designing experiments with proof points of new candidate drugs (cancer, fibrosis, macular degeneration, antimicrobial resistance, and more) 2 @Nature reports @GoogleDeepMind @FutureHouseSF nature.com/articles/s4158… nature.com/articles/s4158…

Artificial intelligence is poised to take on a more-active role in the laboratory: two new systems, described today in Nature1,2, use teams of AI agents to develop hypotheses, propose experiments and analyse data. go.nature.com/4tOUwcq

At IFP, we are running The Launch Sequence to help scope good ideas and match teams with funders. Check out our RFP here: ifp.org/rfp-launch/

New blog post: The third wave of American philanthropy Hundreds of billions of dollars in new philanthropic capital will soon become liquid. The OpenAI Foundation holds 26% of OpenAI, worth about $220B at today’s valuation. Anthropic’s seven co-founders have pledged to give away 80% of their wealth and have instituted the most aggressive donor matching program for employees in tech history. How much does this all add up to? And how meaningful is that in the context of philanthropy today? I was doing some simple napkin math to wrap my head around the scale of what’s coming, and radicalized myself in the process. I had dramatically underappreciated the scale of the philanthropic capital that’s about to become available and the corresponding gap in talent and organizations that will be needed to make the most of it. This piece aims to directionally sketch the scale of what’s coming, the gap in operational capacity needed to absorb it, and what we can do to fill it. (Link to full post in reply)

📢Nueva publicación en @PLOSONE! ¿Se puede estimar el ingreso de un barrio mirando desde el espacio? @AbbateNicolas y L. Gasparini (@CEDLAS) y F. Ronchetti y F. Quiroga (@IIILIDI) combinan la IA, imágenes satelitales y datos de encuestas para construir mapas de ingreso del AMBA

We know surprisingly little about how automation will unfold outside rich countries. So we built the Global Automation Atlas: 18,000 tasks, 124 countries, and 2.3 million task-country comparisons.

Deep Research on a Loop (DRIL): a method that uses AI agents, guided by a formal research instrument and strict evidence rules, to build datasets from public sources, from Santiago Afonso, @SFGaliani, @RamiroHGalvez, and @raul_sosa2908 nber.org/papers/w35188

Just updated: This spreadsheet of crime-related papers published in top econ journals. #gid=686724554" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

Honored to spend time with my friend @igoldfajn, president of @the_IDB. Thoughtful exchange on Bolivia 🇧🇴, investment, development, and the opportunities ahead for Latin America. Excited to join the IDB Group Advisory Council and contribute to the conversation around the future of our region. 🌎

When El Salvador deployed community health teams, the result was not simply more primary care – it was better-organised care, with more prevention, less infectious disease, and fewer patients ending up in hospital. voxdev.org/topic/health/c…

#AI in Health Economics and Outcomes Research: Toward an AI-Native Research Cycle from @RxEconomics rxeconomics.com/insights/ai-in… #HEOR

I'm very happy that the BREAD Development conference will take place in Mexico City this year (on October 23-24), hosted by ITAM. The deadline to submit a paper is June 19. Selected papers will be invited to submit to a special issue of the JDE. Website: bread-mexico-2026.github.io

💡 Entonces, obtener mejores resultados de salud no siempre requiere más recursos humanos. A veces, 👉 mejores incentivos 👉 mejores condiciones y organización pueden generar grandes impactos.

📢 ¡Nuevo documento de trabajo! Los programas de pago por desempeño (P4P) que se implementan en sectores intensivos en talento humano ¿pueden tener impacto en el mercado laboral del sector? 🇦🇷Plan Nacer/Programa SUMAR - Programa de financiamiento por resultados en salud 🧵👇

🆕 Tracking Kenya's economy in real time Today on VoxDev, Nikolay Danov (@IMFNews), @DomenicoGiannon (@JHUEconomics), Alain Kabundi, Cédric Okou & Antonio Spilimbergo discuss a framework for nowcasting GDP in data-scarce settings: voxdev.org/topic/macroeco…