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Compromisos de gestión, rendición de cuentas y corrupción en los hospitales de la Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social
Cercone, James Anthony; Durán-Valverde, Fabio; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000
El presente trabajo tiene como propósito presentar los principales resultados del análisis de la relación entre la existencia de mecanismos organizacionales tendientes a promover la transparencia y rendición de cuentas en los hospitales públicos de Costa Rica y el nivel de corrupción...
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Logistics as a Competitiveness Factor for Small and Medium Enterprises in Latin America and the Caribbean
Kirby, Carlos; Brosa, Nicolau - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
The logistics industry is one of utmost relevance and principally serves as a motor of private sec-tor development and growth of the economic sectors of a country or region. A logistics industry that is efficient and accessible to everyone is a key element for companies in a country or region in...
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Second-tier Government Banks and Firm Performance: Micro-Evidence from Colombia
Maffioli, Alessandro; Eslava, Marcela; Arjona, Marcela … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
Despite the large potential gains from credit by second-tier development banks, little is known about the actual impact of these banks' lending activity. This study partially fills that gap by analyzing the impact of the lending activity of Bancoldex, the Colombian second-tier development bank,...
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Innovation in Services: The Hard Case for Latin America and the Caribbean
Tacsir, Ezequiel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
Recent research conducted by the IDB shows that innovation positively affects productivity growth in the Latin American … dynamics at play in the service sector in the region and the relationship between productivity and innovation in services (as … prolonged productivity lags in the region, while, if well designed and implemented, could have large economic payoffs. This …
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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...
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Social Assistance and Birth Outcomes: Evidence from the Uruguayan PANES
Amarante, Veronica; Manacorda, Marco; Miguel, Edward; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
This paper estimates the impact of a large temporary poverty relief program, Uruguay’s PANES—on birth outcomes. Using program administrative data and longitudinal vital statistics, a significant and precisely estimated reduction in the fraction of low-weight newborns (less than 2,500 g. ) on...
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Same Bureaucracy, Different Outcomes in Human Capital? How Indigenous and Rural Non-Indigenous Areas in Panama Responded to the CCT
Arráiz, Irani; Rozo, Sandra - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
This paper estimates the impact of the conditional cash transfer program, Red de Oportunidades, on human capital outcomes in areas with different incidences of poverty: indigenous and rural non-indigenous areas of Panama. The analysis relies on data from the Living Standards Measurement Survey...
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Does Contracting-Out Primary Care Services Work? The Case of Rural Guatemala
Cristia, Julian; Evans, William; Kim, Beomsoo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
This paper estimates the impact of a large-scale contracting-out program in Guatemala, using two waves of living standard measurement surveys which collected data before and after the expansion of the program and exploiting variation in the timing of the program to estimate treatment effects....
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Serie de notas técnicas sobre procesos de priorización de salud: Introducción a la serie de priorización explicita en salud
Giedion, Úrsula; Muñoz, Ana Lucía; Ávila, Adriana - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
Este es la primera publicación de una serie de notas técnicas sobre procesos de priorización de salud. Aquí se introduce el término de priorización explícita, y presenta argumentos y cifras acerca de por qué los países de la región están enfrentados a una brecha cada vez más grande...
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