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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010895474
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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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Innovation, Firm Size, Technology Intensity, and Employment Generation in Uruguay: The Microeconometric Evidence
Aboal, Diego; Garda, Paula; Lanzilotta, Bibiana; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
The aim of this paper is to analyze the relationship between innovation and employment, in terms of both its quantity and quality, in Uruguay. The effect of product and process innovation on employment growth and on employment composition in terms of skills was studied, using data from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010653665
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Employment Generation, Firm Size and Innovation: Microeconometric Evidence from Argentina
Elejalde, Sheila de; Giuliodori, David; Stucchi, Rodolfo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
This paper provides evidence about the relationship between innovation and employment in Argentina. In particular, it quantifies the impact of different types of innovations (process or product innovations) on employment growth and skill composition (skilled-unskilled labor) and the impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010653674
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Employment Generation, Firm Size, and Innovation in Chile
Alvarez, Roberto; Benavente, José Miguel; Campusano, … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
This paper compiles and analyzes several sources of information to shed light on the relationship between innovation and employment growth in the manufacturing industry in Chile in the last 15 years. Our overall conclusions are that process innovation is generally not found to be a relevant...
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Entry and Quality Choices in Child Care Markets
Bastos, Paulo; Cristia, Julian - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
Many developing countries have adopted the market approach for expanding the supply of child care, but little is known about the economic behavior of independent providers. This paper draws on uniquely rich administrative data on child care centers and their inputs from São Paulo to examine the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008764253
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Does Energy Consumption Respond to Price Shocks? Evidence from a Regression-Discontinuity Design
Bastos, Paulo; Cristia, Julian; Scartascini, Carlos G.; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
This paper exploits unique features of a recently introduced tariff schedule for natural gas in Buenos Aires to estimate the short-run impact of price shocks on residential energy utilization. The schedule induces a non-linear and nonmonotonic relationship between households’ accumulated...
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Prudent Banks and Creative Mimics: Can We Tell the Difference?
Powell, Andrew; Miller, Marcus; Maier, Antonia - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
The recent financial crisis has forced a rethink of banking regulation and supervision and the role of financial … innovation. This paper develops a model where prudent banks may signal their type through high capital ratios. Capital regulation … supervision detects risky behavior ex ante then it is complementary to capital regulation. However, financial innovation may erode …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547939
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Impact Evaluation of Innovation and Linkage Development Programs in Costa Rica: The Cases of PROPYME and CR Provee
Monge-Gonzalez, Ricardo; Rodriguez-Alvarez, Juan Antonio - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
This paper estimates the impact of two productive development programs (PDPs) in Costa Rica: PROPYME and CR Provee. The first seeks to increase the capacity of small and medium-sized firms (SMEs) to innovate, and the second aims to increase backward linkages between Costa Rican SMEs and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010721886
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On Emerging Economy Sovereign Spreads and Ratings
Powell, Andrew; Martínez, Juan Francisco - Inter-American Development Bank - 2008
This paper analyzes alternative models for emerging sovereign ratings. Although a small number of economic fundamentals explain ratings reasonably well, variations in those economic fundamentals are themselves explained by a small number of world factors. On the other hand, global financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010652582