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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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The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Employment, Capital, and Productivity Dynamics: Evidence from the Uruguayan Manufacturing Sector

Casacuberta, Carlos; Fachola, Gabriela; Gandelman, Néstor - Inter-American Development Bank - 2004

This paper studies the impact of trade liberalization on labor and capital gross flows and productivity in the … capital were accompanied by an increase in total factor productivity, especially in sectors where tariff reductions were … larger and unions were not present. The authors found no evidence of varying productivity dynamics across different industry …

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Do Export Promotion Agencies Promote New Exporters?

Cruz, Marcio - Inter-American Development Bank - 2014

the control groups reinforces the importance of other firms' determinants (e.g. productivity) widely emphasized by trade …

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Accessing the Global Value Chain in a Changing Institutional Environment: Comparing Aeronautics and Coffee

Cafaggi, Fabrizio; Swensson, Luana F. Joppert; Junior, … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

The aim of the paper, based on empirical research in Brazil, is to investigate how supply chains have evolved over time, what factors have driven this evolution and also how a specific set of contractual practices along these chains is linked to access to international markets. The two selected...

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Capital Requirements for Latin American Banks in Relation to their Market Risks: The Relevance of the Basle 1996 Amendment to Latin America

Powell, Andrew; Balzarotti, Verónica - Inter-American Development Bank - 1997

Banks' market or 'trading' risks have increased noticeably over the past years, largely as a result of the growth of liquid assets on banks' balance sheets and the increase in banks' off-balance sheet activities. Well-publicized bank failures and significant capital losses have focussed further...

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De-industrialization and Trade

Spilimbergo, Antonio - Inter-American Development Bank - 1995

Baumol (1967) showed that the rate of growth of an economy slows down if a sector has lower productivity than others …

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Productivity, Exporting and Financial Constraints of Chinese SMEs

Biesebroeck, Johannes Van - Inter-American Development Bank - 2014

While many studies explain the correlation between firm-level productivity and export status entirely by better firms … provinces with weaker institutions. The same type of firms also enjoy the largest productivity gains immediately following …

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Logistics as a Driver for Competitiveness in Latin America and the Caribbean

Guasch, José Luis - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

Logistics is becoming a critical element of competitiveness and economic performance both in itself and within the context of increasing globalization. Most Latin American and Caribbean countries are focusing on export-led growth strategies. For such strategies to succeed, a key component is an...

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Transforming Trade Competition into Coordination with PRC

Shantong, Li - Inter-American Development Bank - 2008

This presentation reviews the following topics: China in the world economy; industrial performance and competitiveness of China; features of trade of major Asian economies and preliminary exploration of regional trade agreement among China, Japan and Korea; globalization and regionalism in a global...

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