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Aid, Exports, and Growth: A Time-Series Perspective on the Dutch Disease Hypothesis
Rebucci, Alessandro; Kang, Joong Shik; Prati, Alessandro - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
find that the estimated cumulative resposive of exports and per capita GDP growth to a global aid shock are strongly … exchange rates, exports and per capita GDP growth respond positively to a global aid shock. This evidence suggests that …The available evidence on the effects of aid on growth is notoriously mixed. We use a novel empirical methodology, a …
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943497
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Estimating the Direct Economic Damage of the Earthquake in Haiti
Cavallo, Eduardo Alfredo; Powell, Andrew; Becerra, Oscar - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
This paper uses simple regression techniques to make an initial assessment of the monetary damages caused by the January 12, 2010 earthquake that struck Haiti. Damages are estimated for a disaster with both 200,000 and 250,000 total dead and missing (i.e., the range of mortality that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008616870
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Natural Disasters Financial Risk Management : Technical and Policy Underpinnings for the Use of Disaster-Linked Financial Instruments in Latin America and the Caribbean
Durante, Juan José; Focke, Kurt S.; Collich, Guillermo J. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
The Latin American and Caribbean region is highly exposed to natural disasters. The social and economic impact of these events has been historically very significant and it is showing an increasingly growing trend. During the first quarter of 2010, this unfortunate reality was evidenced with the...
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So you think you know what drives disbursements at the IDB? Think, think again...
Álvarez, Carola; Bueso-Merriam, Jacqueline; Stucchi, … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
This paper focuses on the performance of IDB projects between 1996 and 2011 disbursements. We present evidence on the evolution of disbursements with respect to the available funds and the evolution of disbursements with respect to the historic disbursement curve of IDB projects. We also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010653368
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El surgimiento de la cooperación Sur-Sur: Hacia un nuevo ecosistema de cooperación para el desarrollo
Tres, Joaquim - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
La Cooperación Sur-Sur (CSS) ha surgido con gran ímpetu en los últimos cinco años e iniciado su consolidación en América Latina y el Caribe (ALC), contribuyendo al aumento del número de actores, de instrumentos de intercambio de conocimiento y experiencias de desarrollo y a la...
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Incentives in Development Lending: Technical Cooperation
Miquel-Florensa, Josepa - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
This paper models incentives and information asymmetries between the different participants in multilateral development banks' decision process, namely borrowing countries, managers and the board of governors (with borrower and non-borrower members). We propose technical cooperation requirements...
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Foreign Aid in the Aftermath of Large Natural Disasters
Noy, Ilan; Becerra, Oscar; Cavallo, Eduardo A. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
-disaster flows, the typical surge is small in relation to the size of the affected economies. Moreover, aid surges typically cover … only 3 percent of the total estimated economic damages caused by the disasters. The main determinants of post-disaster aid … strategic behavior on the part of donors determine the size of post-disaster aid surges. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010578234
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Innovation, Research and Development, and Productivity: Case Studies from Peru
Kuramoto, Juana - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
This paper analyzes quantitative findings on the innovative behavior of firms in the production chains of pisco and shoe manufacture in Peru, which are served by the network of Technological Innovation Centers (CITEs), the most important technology policy instrument available in Peru. These two...
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