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Developing Entrepreneurship: Experience in Latin America and Worldwide Title: Desarrollo emprendedor: América Latina y la experiencia internacional

Bianchi, Patrizio; Kantis, Hugo; Bacic, Miguel Juan; … - Inter-American Development Bank

This publication analyzes the profile of entrepreneurs and how they create high-growth businesses in 13 countries in Latin America, East Asia and southern Europe. It also offers case studies of entrepreneurship development policies and programs in the Americas and Europe. The comparative...

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Partial Credit Guarantees and Firm Performance: Evidence from the Colombian National Guarantee Fund

Stucchi, Rodolfo; Arráiz, Irani; Arjona, Marcela Meléndez - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

panel, covering the period 1997-2007, that combines data from DANE's Annual Manufacturing Survey; DIAN's export and import …

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Investment Climate and Employment Growth: The Impact of Access to Finance, Corruption and Regulations across Firms

Aterido, Reyes; Hallward-Driemeier, Mary; Pagés-Serra, … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2007

Using firm level data on 70,000 enterprises in 107 countries, this paper finds important effects of access to finance, business regulations, corruption, and to a lesser extent, infrastructure bottlenecks in explaining patterns of job creation at the firm level. The paper focuses on how the...

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Credit Union Policies and Performances in Latin America

Westley, Glenn D.; Shaffer, Sherrill - Inter-American Development Bank - 1997

This paper presents a conceptual framework for explaining Credit Unions (CUs) loan delinquency and profitability in developing countries. It also offers an empirical estimation for a unique sample of CUs in Latin America.

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The Impact of Public Credit Programs on Brazilian Firms

Maffioli, Alessandro; Negri, João Alberto De; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

productivity and export. For this purpose, we use a unique panel data set developed by the Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada …

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Why don't All Exporters Benefit from Free Trade Agreements?: Estimating Utilization Costs

Ulloa, Alfie; Wagner, Rodrigo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

Free Trade Agreements (FTA) attract significant interest, but after these treaties are signed not all exporters use them. We provide a model of heterogeneous utilization, also developing a novel method to estimate treaty-utilization costs. We later apply the model to estimate the evolution...

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Productive Development Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Case of Mexico

Baz, Verónica; Capelo, Maria Cristina; Centeno, Rodrigo; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

While Mexico has potential to grow rapidly, its economic growth has remained low for the past three decades. There is no consensus on the country's development path or on how to achieve specific goals. Since the policy debate remains ideological and lacks pragmatism, productive development...

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Impact Evaluation of Innovation and Linkage Development Programs in Costa Rica: The Cases of PROPYME and CR Provee

Rodríguez-Álvarez, Juan Antonio; Monge-González, Ricardo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013

were measured in terms of three result variables: real average wages, employment demand, and the probability of exporting … selection bias. The results show that both PROPYME and CR Provee have positive and significant impacts on SME performance …. PROPYME¿s beneficiaries performed better than other firms in terms of labor demand and their probability of exporting, while …

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Second-tier Government Banks and Access to Credit: Micro-Evidence from Colombia

Maffioli, Alessandro; Eslava, Marcela; Arjona, Marcela … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

Government-owned development banks have often been justified by the need to respond to financial market imperfections that hinder the establishment and growth of promising businesses, and as a result, stifle economic development more generally. However, evidence on the effectiveness of these...

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The Impact of Internet Banking on the Performance of Micro and Small Enterprises in Costa Rica: A Randomized Controlled Experiment

Inter-American Development Bank; Comisión Asesora en … - 2011

This paper uses a randomized controlled experiment in Costa Rica to determine whether IB use by Banco Nacional de Desarrollo's micro and small enterprise (MSE) clients has an impact on their performance, measured in terms of productivity, increase in sales, and cost reduction. Results from the...

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