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The Impact of ICT on Vegetable Farmers in Honduras
Pineda, Allan; Aguero, Marco; Espinoza, Sandra - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
Honduran farmers are at a disadvantage when dealing with intermediaries because they lack timely information about market prices. This paper first analyzes which information and communications technology (ICT) would be most suitable for sending price information to producers scattered throughout...
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Misallocation and Productivity in Colombia’s Manufacturing Industries
Camacho, Adriana; Conover, Emily - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
Following Hsieh and Klenow (2009), this paper studies productivity dispersions in Colombian industrial establishments using the Colombian Annual Manufacturing Survey (AMS) from 1982 to 1998. The United States is used as a benchmark to estimate the reallocation of capital and labor to equalize...
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Innovation, R&D Investment and Productivity in Chile
Alvarez, Roberto; Bravo-Ortega, Claudio; Navarro, Lucas - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
This paper uses two sources of information and different methodologies to analyze the causal effect of product and process innovation on productivity in the Chilean manufacturing industry during the past decade. In general, the evidence suggests there is not a contemporaneous effect of product...
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El impacto de los servicios financieros y de capacitación en las MiPyME de Costa Rica
Monge-González, Ricardo; Rodríguez-Alvarez, Juan A. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
Este trabajo estima el impacto del acceso a ciertos servicios financieros (descuento de facturas, órdenes de compra, garantías de participación y cumplimiento) en el desempeño de un grupo de micro, pequeñas y medianas empresas (MiPyME) clientes de una entidad de microfinanzas que opera en...
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Access to Credit and the Size of the Formal Sector in Brazil
Pablo D`Erasmo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
This paper studies the link between credit conditions and formalization in Brazil, as both credit and the rate of formalization have notably increased in the last decade. A firm dynamics model with endogenous formal and informal sectors is developed to quantitatively evaluate how much of the...
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Productivity and Resource Misallocation in Latin America
Busso, Matias; Pages, Carmen; Madrigal, Lucia - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
Total factor productivity (TFP) in Latin America has not increased since the mid- 1970s, and in many countries it has declined. Moreover, resource misallocation can lower aggregate TFP. This paper presents evidence based on firm-level data from 10 Latin American countries to quantify the...
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(In)Formal and (Un)Productive: The Productivity Costs of Excessive Informality in Mexico
Busso, Matias; Fazio, Maria Victoria; Algazi, Santiago Levy - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
The laws that regulate relations between firms and workers in Mexico distinguish sharply between salaried and non-salaried workers, and they are at the root of the existence of informality. This paper provides a clear definition of informality, distinguishing it from illegality. Using Mexico’s...
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Calidad del empleo y productividad laboral en el Perú
Chacaltana, Juan; Yamada, Gustavo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2009
La economía peruana actualmente tiene una baja capacidad para la generación de empleos de calidad, asociada a los bajos niveles de productividad laboral. La primera parte del documento analiza datos del período 2000-2006 y encuentra pocos avances en cuanto al crecimiento de la productividad...
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The Role of Relative Price Volatility in the Efficiency of Investment Allocation
Cavallo, Eduardo Alfredo; Izquierdo, Alejandro; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
This paper estimates the impact of relative price volatility on sector-level investment allocation using a panel of 65 countries with data for 26 manufacturing industries over the period 1985-2003. Results indicate that volatility distorts efficient investment allocation in that investment is...
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Financial Development and TFP Growth: Cross-Country and Industry-Level Evidence
Galindo, Arturo José; Arizala, Francisco; Cavallo, Eduardo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2009
This paper estimates the impact of financial development on industry-level total factor productivity (TFP) growth using … significant relationship is found between financial development and industry-level TFP growth when controlling for country …-time and industry-time fixed effects. The results are both statistically and economically significant. TFP growth can …
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