Resultado y Análisis de encuesta sobre Receptores de Remesas en América Central (Guatelama, El Salvador, Honduras)

Several countries have implemented programs to support their firms¿ internationalization efforts. Their impacts are likely to be heterogeneous over firm size categories because these programs are primarily intended and expected to benefit smaller companies. Whether this is or not the case is...

Results and analysis of a poll of major remittance senders and charts of the origin of remittances by state in the continental United States.

Enrique V. Iglesias (1930-), distinguished Uruguayan economist and statesman, third President of the IDB (1988-2005), founder of the IDB Cultural Center (1992); Néstor García Canclini (see Encuentros No. 43c); and Gilberto Gil (1942-), Minister of Culture of Brazil, acclaimed musical composer,...

This paper examines the impact of trade policy on production specialization patterns in ten Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela) over the period 1990-2001, and explicitly assesses the potential implications of a...

Export promotion agencies provide exporters with a broad range of services, going from counseling to sponsoring their participation in international trade missions and fairs. These services may have heterogeneous effects and thus contribute differently to achieve the goals of these...

Con el objetivo de suministrar información actualizada para las actividades operacionales y de programación del BID, el Departamento Regional de Operaciones II presenta este análisis de las tendencias de las economías de los países de la Región II en 2005, los principales aspectos de su...

Results and analysis of a poll on remittance recipients in Central America (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras)

Do all exporters benefit the same from export promotion programs? Surprisingly, not matter how obvious this question may a priori be when thinking of the effectiveness of these programs there is virtually no empirical evidence on how they affect export performance in different parts of the...