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This paper sums up the experience of a Brazilian cluster of small and medium enterprises in the Sinos Valley. It shows that cooperation amongst local enterprises strengthens their ability to compete globally and that business associations can play an important role in identifying the key...
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This technical paper determines the extent to which small and medium enterprises (SMEs) behave responsibly, and propose measures to enhance and promote corporate social responsibility in SMEs. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has taken on a broader view and refers to the actions that firms...
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This issue of MicroEnterprise Americas features a series of articles including topics such as how communication and information technology is fostering growth in the microcredit industry; the role of the State as governments are responding to persistent high rates of unemployment and lack of...
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This study is an input to the Inter-American Development Bank's regional strategy to improve access to credit for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the Latin America region. The core of this strategy is a reform of secure lending on the basis of movable collaterals that will allow SMEs to...
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This presentation comments on John Weiss' Export Growth and Industrial Policy: Lesson from the East Asian Miracle …
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This presentation comments on Charles Sabel's "Long Term Strategic Policies for Global Competition." The document points out a series of insights, methodologies, and suggestions on three aspects: new stylized facts of economic development, developing economies as Toyoda systems, and clues to...
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This presentation comments on John Weiss' Export Growth and Industrial Policy: Lesson from the East Asian Miracle …
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This presentation comments on Charles Sabel's "Long Term Strategic Policies for Global Competition." The document points out a series of insights, methodologies, and suggestions on three aspects: new stylized facts of economic development, developing economies as Toyoda systems, and clues to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010654960
This edition of IDEA draws from a forthcoming IDB book, Export Pioneers in Latin America, which analyzes a series of … case studies of successful new export activities throughout the region to learn how pioneers jumpstart a virtuous process … illustrate how an initially successful export activity did not stop with the discovery of a single viable product, but instead …
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