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The IDB and Job Creation: Report to the Summit of the Americas

Mazza, Jacqueline; Paris, Angela; Márquez, Gustavo; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2005

and programs to improve the business climate and investment for private sector-driven growth; and, (ii) labor market …

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Foreign Direct Investment in East Asia and Latin America: Is there a People's Republic of China Effect?

Chantasasawat, Busakorn; Fung, Kwok Chiu; Iizaka, Hitomi; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2004

In recent years, the People's Republic of China (PRC) has emerged as the largest recipient of foreign direct investment … well as Latin America, and control for the standard determinants of their inward direct investment. They then add PRC …'s inward foreign direct investment as an indicator of the "PRC Effect". Estimation of the coefficient associated with the PRC …

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Forest Investment Attractiveness Index: Usefulness for Sector Management

Nascimento, José Rente - Inter-American Development Bank - 2006

This presentation discusses how the Forest Investment Attractiveness Index (IAIF) and the Process to Improve the … Business Climate for Forest Investment (PROMECIF) can be useful to improve forest sector governance. The general objective of … systematic, periodic, quantitative and more rigorous analyses of the factors that affect the success of forest direct investment …

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Innovation, R&D Investment and Productivity in Chile

Alvarez, Roberto; Bravo-Ortega, Claudio; Navarro, Lucas - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

could help to explain the low levels of investment in research and development (R&D) activities by Chilean firms. …

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IDB Investments in Brazilian Protected Areas during the 1990s

Dourojeanni, Marc J. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000

This essay attempts to document the funds invested by the IDB and its counterparts and how the resources were used in the restricted field of protected areas in Brazil, during the period 1990-1999. For this purpose, all relevant documents regarding loans, technical cooperation and small projects...

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Private Infrastructure Investment at the Subnational Level: Challenges in Emerging Economies

Beato, Paulina; Vives, Antonio - Inter-American Development Bank - 2003

This working paper discusses infrastructure investment in Latin America at the subnational, private level and …

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Methodologies for Regional Programs and Projects: Strategy and Programming

Madhur, Srinivasa - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

This presentation discusses the Asian Development Bank's (ADB's) Regional Cooperation and Integration (RCI) Strategy. The RCI strategy includes a results-based monitoring framework to monitor progress in each pillar. The framework identifies broad outcomes to be achieved, performance monitoring...

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Preconditions for Establishing Structural Fiscal Balances in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Case of Brazil

Levy, Paulo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013

Fiscal policy has been at the center of Brazil's economic dynamics and performance for more than 30 years. In this line, the approval and implementation of a Fiscal Responsibility Law in 2000 was a key step in supporting fiscal sustainability and the transparency of fiscal accounts. Despite...

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Evaluation of the Structure and Performance of the Brazilian Tax System: White Paper on Taxation in Brazil

Afonso, José Roberto Rodrigues; Soares, Julia Morais; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013

This study performs an up-to-date diagnostic of the Brazilian tax system in order to provide a basis for reform discussions among technical analysts, authorities and congressmen. It is based on the analysis and categorization of information on taxation in Brazil. Its focus is on the current...

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Best Practices in Creating a Venture Capital Ecosystem

Leamon, Ann; Garcia-Robles, Maria Susana; Lerner, Josh - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013

Venture capital investment has been found to be remarkably effective at stimulating innovation and job growth …

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