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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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Innovation Policy and Employment: Evidence from an Impact Evaluation in Argentina
Castillo, Victoria; Maffioli, Alessandro; Rojo, Sofía; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
the wages paid by firms to their employees. To control for self-selection into the program, propensity score matching and …-related activities, the program was able to create more and better jobs. The effect on wages was also found to be higher when supporting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009644852
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Innovation Policy and Employment: Evidence from an Impact Evaluation in Argentina
Castillo, Victoria; Maffioli, Alessandro; Rojo, Sofía; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
the wages paid by firms to their employees. To control for self-selection into the program, propensity score matching and …-related activities, the program was able to create more and better jobs. The effect on wages was also found to be higher when supporting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010653454
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008799617
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Partial Credit Guarantees and Firm Performance: Evidence from the Colombian National Guarantee Fund
Stucchi, Rodolfo; Arráiz, Irani; Arjona, Marcela Meléndez - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
by the NGF are able to grow in terms of both output and employment. However, we did not find any effect on productivity …, wages, or investment. These results suggest that firms use the new funds as working capital to grow their businesses rather …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943660