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Opportunities for boosting : output, employment and value chains : economic report on Central America, Mexico, Panama and the Dominican Republic

López Marmolejo, Arnoldo (ed.); Eggers Prieto, Carlos (ed.) - Inter-American Development Bank - 2023

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Diverging paths : comparing a century of Scandinavian and Latin American economic development

Blomström, Magnus (contributor); … - 1991

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Remittances to Latin America from Japan

Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2010

The growth of economic migrants seeking better lives for themselves and their families has increased four times faster …

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MFIC Corporate Brochure

Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American …; … - 2010

Microfinance International Corporation was founded in 2003, with the intention to work to develop a could work to develop a solution to overcome the limitations of MFIs with the goal of providing sustainable financial assistance to families in developing regions and offering an attractive...

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Integration & Trade Journal: Volume 11 : No. 27 : July-December, 2007

López-Córdova, José Ernesto; Olmedo, Alexandra; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2008

Migrants to Argentina: Their Prevalence, Amount and Utilization; Remittances and Poverty in Mexico: A Propensity Score Matching … Expenditure Patterns of Population in Origin Communities: Evidence from Mexico; Mexican Microenterprise Investment and Employment …

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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...

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The Economic Effects of Unions in Latin America: Their Impact on Wages and the Economic Performance of Firms in Uruguay

Cassoni, Adriana; Labadie, Gastón J.; Fachola, Gabriela - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002

employment and promotes investment due to firms substituting labor by capital. Unions tend to organize in those plants with …

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Employment and Taxes in Latin America: An Empirical Study of the Effects of Payroll, Corporate Income and Value-Added Taxes on Labor Outcomes

Lora, Eduardo; Fajardo, Johanna - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

of labor market outcomes such as employment, unemployment, informality, and wages. Using national-level data on labor … depend on several aspects of labor and tax institutions. Payroll taxes reduce employment and increase labor costs when their … employment of medium- and high-education workers. …

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Effects of Innovation on Employment in Latin America

Crespi, Gustavo; Tacsir, Ezequiel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

This study examines the impact of process and product innovation on employment growth and composition in Argentina …. (1998), employment growth is related to process innovations and to the growth of sales separately due to innovative and … with employment growth at the firm level. No evidence of displacement effects due to the introduction of product …

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Innovation Strategies and Employment in Latin American Firms

Crespi, Gustavo; Zuñiga, Pluvia - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

This study examines the impact of innovation strategies on employment growth in four Latin American countries … model proposed by Harrison et al. (2008), we relate employment to three innovation strategies: make only (R&D), buy only … employment; the "make and buy" strategy comes in second. Similar results are found for small firms. These results highlight the …

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