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Inter-American Development Bank: 'Training Minds, Shaping Policies: Evidence From a Behavioral Economics Course for Public Officials'
July 06, 2026
WASHINGTON, July 6 (TNSLrpt) -- The Inter-American Development Bank issued the following white paper in June 2026 entitled "Training Minds, Shaping Policies: Evidence from a Behavioral Economics Course for Public Officials."

Here are excerpts:

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Why do some public policies fail despite policymakers' good intentions? One answer is that policymakers, like everyone else, are prone to cognitive biases (Banuri et al., 2019; Battaglio Jr et al. . . .

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