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From Few to Many: Ten Years of Health Insurance Expansion in Colombia Title: Salud al alcance de todos: Una década de expansión del seguro médico en Colombia
Giuffrida, Antonio; Flórez, Carmen Elisa; Giedion, Úrsula - Inter-American Development Bank
From Few to Many is the first comprehensive look at Colombia's 1993 health system reforms. It describes the implementation of universal health insurance, including a subsidized system for the poor, and examines the impact of this and other reforms during a time when Colombia experienced crushing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772393
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From Growth to Prosperity: Policy Perspectives for Trinidad and Tobago
Artana, Daniel; Thomas, Wendell; Rojas-Suárez, Liliana; … - Inter-American Development Bank
improved social services. In this context, we believe the timing of this report to be most opportune. To achieve sustainable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772498
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Services, Anti-dumping and Other ¿New Issues¿ in the WTO Negotiations and Their Relevance for the FTAA
Jara, Alejandro - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002
In the semester following the Doha Ministerial, WTO Members were able to set up the essential elements of the Work Program decided by Ministers at Doha (November 2001), including the negotiations mandated in the declaration.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010653045
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Innovation in Services: The Hard Case for Latin America and the Caribbean
Tacsir, Ezequiel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
regarding innovation in services is related, at least in part, to uncertainty with respect to how innovation in services … dynamics at play in the service sector in the region and the relationship between productivity and innovation in services (as … well as specific sub-sectors of services) represents a policy making opportunity that, if ignored, could contribute to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010653699
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Innovation and Productivity in Services: Evidence from Chile
Alvarez, Roberto; Zahler, Andrés; Ortega, Claudio Bravo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
This paper analyzes empirically the relationship between innovation and productivity in the Chilean services sector …. Consistent with recent evidence on developed countries, we find that services firms are as innovative as firms in the … the case that even larger efforts need to be done to have better measures of innovation and productivity in the services …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010654145
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Technological and Nontechnological Innovation and Productivity in Services vis a vis Manufacturing in Uruguay
Aboal, Diego; Garda, Paula - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
-technological innovation), and productivity in services and manufacturing are explored using innovation survey data from Uruguay. This is the …) innovations are positively associated to productivity gains in services, but nontechnological innovations have a more important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010655798
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Innovation and Productivity in Services: Evidence from Chile
Alvarez, Roberto; Zahler, Andrés; Ortega, Claudio Bravo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
This paper analyzes empirically the relationship between innovation and productivity in the Chilean services sector …. Consistent with recent evidence on developed countries, we find that services firms are as innovative as firms in the … the case that even larger efforts need to be done to have better measures of innovation and productivity in the services …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010741886
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Technological and Nontechnological Innovation and Productivity in Services vis a vis Manufacturing in Uruguay
Aboal, Diego; Garda, Paula - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
-technological innovation), and productivity in services and manufacturing are explored using innovation survey data from Uruguay. This is the …) innovations are positively associated to productivity gains in services, but nontechnological innovations have a more important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010741896
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Innovation in Services: The Hard Case for Latin America and the Caribbean
Tacsir, Ezequiel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
regarding innovation in services is related, at least in part, to uncertainty with respect to how innovation in services … dynamics at play in the service sector in the region and the relationship between productivity and innovation in services (as … well as specific sub-sectors of services) represents a policy making opportunity that, if ignored, could contribute to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009644856
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From Few to Many: Ten Years of Health Insurance Expansion in Colombia Title: Salud al alcance de todos: Una década de expansión del seguro médico en Colombia
Giuffrida, Antonio; Flórez, Carmen Elisa; Giedion, Úrsula - Inter-American Development Bank
From Few to Many is the first comprehensive look at Colombia's 1993 health system reforms. It describes the implementation of universal health insurance, including a subsidized system for the poor, and examines the impact of this and other reforms during a time when Colombia experienced crushing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943453