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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...
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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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Can SME Policies Improve Firm Performance? Evidence from an Impact Evaluation in Argentina
Castillo, Victoria; Maffioli, Alessandro; Monsalvo, Ana P. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
This paper evaluates the impact of the Argentine SME support program PRE on employment, real wages, and exports. The … and quantitatively important impact of the program on employment and a positive although smaller impact on real wages and … the probability of exporting. We also find that the effect of the program on wages and the probability of exporting take …
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