This presentation provides the comparative results of a project carried out by the Inter-American Development Bank to understand the links between innovation and employment in Latin America and the Caribbean. Special attention is paid to the importance of sectoral and size difference in both...

In this note, a wide range of innovation indicators are analyzed in order to describe the innovation behavior of manufacturing firms in the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region using the recently released Enterprise Surveys 2010. The Enterprise Surveys define innovation rates as the share...

This study examines the impact of process and product innovation on employment growth and composition in Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, and Uruguay using micro data from innovation surveys. Based on the model put forward by Harrison et al. (1998), employment growth is related to process...

Mediante una evaluación cuasi-experimental, este trabajo estudia el impacto de una capacitación tendiente a mejorar las prácticas administrativas y el desempeño de un grupo de micro, pequeñas y medianas empresas (MiPyME) clientes de una entidad de microfinanzas que opera en Costa Rica...

This paper analyzes five Productive Development Policies (PDPs) implemented in Costa Rica, finding that they are not optimally addressing market failures. Moreover, government failures rather than market failures represent the main justification for PDPs. Even in the presence of market failures,...

Recent research conducted by the IDB shows that innovation positively affects productivity growth in the Latin American and Caribbean region, although the evidence comes almost exclusively from the manufacturing sector. The dearth of evidence regarding innovation in services is related, at least...

Presentación sobre le proyecto de Bancarización de remesas, democratización financiera y oportunidades innovadoras de inversión en Costa Rica y Nicaragua: casos comparativos Sur-Sur y Norte-Sur. Da a conocer los objetivos del proyecto, el equipo de trabajo y las actividades del mismo.

Reporte para FOMIN realizado por consultores: Ricardo Monge González, Oswald Céspedes Torres y Juan Carlos Vargas Aguilar. Es el primer estudio sobre remitentes y receptores de remesas de Costa Rica a Nicaragua. Incluye montos y frecuencia de los flujos de remesas y una revisión económica...

Report commissioned by MIF and produced by consultant Ricardo Monge-González: First Study on Remittance senders and recipients from Costa Rica to Nicaragua. It includes size of remittances and economic assesment on the impact on the Economy and poverty reduction of Nicaragua .

Estudio sobre el caso de las remesas de Costa Rica hacia Nicaragua y la bancarización como mecanismo para reducir el costo de envío de las mismas