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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

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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. …

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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. …

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Logistics as a Competitiveness Factor for Small and Medium Enterprises in Latin America and the Caribbean

Kirby, Carlos; Brosa, Nicolau - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

The logistics industry is one of utmost relevance and principally serves as a motor of private sec-tor development and growth of the economic sectors of a country or region. A logistics industry that is efficient and accessible to everyone is a key element for companies in a country or region in...

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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Does the Stopler-Samuelson Theorem Explain the Movement in Wages?: The Linkage between Trade and Wages in Latin American Countries

Shinkai, Naoko - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000

prices and wages of certain types of workers (specific factors in industries) when they are not used intensively. The …

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Argentina's Distributional Failure: The Role of Integration and Public Policy

Gasparini, Leonardo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2003

This paper documents the income distribution changes experienced by Argentina during the last decades. Inequality substantially increased, and despite economic growth during some periods, poverty also went significantly up. Two types of episodes have shaped Argentina's income distribution: deep...

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