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Barbados: Meeting the Challenge of Competitiveness in the 21st Century
Thomas, Desmond; Rojas-Suárez, Liliana; Poon, Auliana; … - Inter-American Development Bank
The material within these pages shows that Barbados, a Caribbean country with just over a quarter of a million people, embodies many of the classic vulnerabilities of an island with a small open economy, yet aspires to developed-country status, and is already well advanced on the road to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943497
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Barbados: Meeting the Challenge of Competitiveness in the 21st Century
Rojas-Suárez, Liliana; Poon, Auliana; Thomas, Desmond; … - Inter-American Development Bank
The material within these pages shows that Barbados, a Caribbean country with just over a quarter of a million people, embodies many of the classic vulnerabilities of an island with a small open economy, yet aspires to developed-country status, and is already well advanced on the road to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010895474
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Public Programs, Innovation, and Firm Performance in Chile
Alvarez, Roberto; Crespi, Gustavo; Cuevas, Conrado - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
productivity, but the impact is heterogeneous across programs and indicators of firm performance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651824
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Public Programs, Innovation, and Firm Performance in Chile
Alvarez, Roberto; Crespi, Gustavo; Cuevas, Conrado - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
productivity, but the impact is heterogeneous across programs and indicators of firm performance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010653084
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Innovation in Services: The Hard Case for Latin America and the Caribbean
Tacsir, Ezequiel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
Recent research conducted by the IDB shows that innovation positively affects productivity growth in the Latin American … dynamics at play in the service sector in the region and the relationship between productivity and innovation in services (as … prolonged productivity lags in the region, while, if well designed and implemented, could have large economic payoffs. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009644856
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Innovative Strategies in Technical and Vocational Education and Training for Accelerated Human Resource Development in South Asia
Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2014
This publication highlights priorities and strategies in meeting current and emerging needs for skills development in …’ priorities toward global competitiveness, increased productivity, and inclusive growth. It also identifies key issues …, constraints and areas of improvement in making skills training more responsive to emerging labor market needs in South Asia as an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010942330
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Innovation and Employment Growth in Costa Rica: A Firm-level Analysis
Monge-González, Ricardo; Rodríguez-Álvarez, Juan Antonio - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
demand characteristics (skills and gender). In particular the research focuses on the differential effects of product and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009357896
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Robots, occupations, and worker age : a production-unit analysis of employment
Deng, Liuchun; Müller, Steffen; Plümpe, Verena; … - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle - 2023
We analyse the impact of robot adoption on employment composition using novel micro data on robot use in German manufacturing plants linked with social security records and data on job tasks. Our task-based model predicts more favourable employment effects for the least routine-task intensive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025782
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Innovation and Employment Growth in Costa Rica: A Firm-level Analysis
Monge-González, Ricardo; Rodríguez-Alvarez, Juan A.; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
demand characteristics (skills and gender). In particular the research focuses on the differential effects of product and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010653224
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Innovative Strategies in Higher Education for Accelerated Human Resource Development in South Asia
Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2014
This publication highlights priorities and strategies in meeting current and emerging needs for skills development in …’ priorities toward global competitiveness, increased productivity, and inclusive growth. It also identifies key issues …, constraints and areas of improvement in making skills training more responsive to emerging labor market needs in South Asia as an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011165194