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Strategic Analysis of Competitiveness and Innovation in the Tourism and Telecommunications Industries: Opportunities and Challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean
Garrido, Celso - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
This paper analyzes the trends and challenges of competitiveness and innovation in the tourism and telecommunications …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009393126
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The Political Economy of Productivity. The Case of Chile
Aninat, Cristobal; Benavente, Jose Miguel; Briones, Ignacio - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
This paper analyzes the political economy of productivity-related policymaking in Chile following a political transaction cost model (Spiller and Tommasi, 2003; Murillo et al., 2008). The main findings indicate that i) the Chilean policymaking process (PMP) was successful in the 1990s in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008478857
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The Welfare Impacts of Local Investment Projects: Evidence from the Guatemala FIS
Ibarraran, Pablo; Sarzosa, Miguel; Soares, Yuri Suarez … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2008
This paper assesses the welfare impacts of local investments projects in rural areas of Guatemala. Using census track data from two rounds of the Guatemalan population census, we find, as expected, that local investment in schools significantly boost enrollment and normal progression in school,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005529055
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Myth, Reality, and Reform: Higher Education Policy in Latin America
Castro, Claudio de Moura; Levy, Daniel C. - Inter-American Development Bank
"Myth, Reality, and Reform: Higher Education Policy in Latin America" analyzes Latin American higher education in terms of four major functions: academic leadership, professional development, technological training and development, and general higher education. Overall, the authors make the case...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772456
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Myth, Reality, and Reform: Higher Education Policy in Latin America
Castro, Claudio de Moura; Levy, Daniel C. - Inter-American Development Bank
"Myth, Reality, and Reform: Higher Education Policy in Latin America" analyzes Latin American higher education in terms of four major functions: academic leadership, professional development, technological training and development, and general higher education. Overall, the authors make the case...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943530
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Firm Size, Knowledge Intensity and Employment Generation: The Microeconometric Evidence for the Service Sector in Uruguay
Aboal, Diego; Garda, Paula; Lanzilotta, Bibiana; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
The employment impact of innovation in the heterogeneous universe of services was studied using data from the 2004 …-2009 Uruguayan service innovation surveys. The empirical evidence shows that the impact of product innovation on employment is … positive, while process innovation appears to have no effect. The effect varies according to the skill level of the labor force …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009366905
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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 manufacturing firms' innovation surveys, matched against economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371000
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Innovation, Employment and Skills in Advanced and Developing Countries: A Survey of the Literature
Vivarelli, Marco - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
This paper critically discusses the theoretical and empirical literature on the quantitative and qualitative employment impact of technological change, compares the relative explanatory power of the competing theories, and explains in detail the macro and micro evidence on the issue, with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009393120
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Innovation Policy for Development: An Overview
Trajtenberg, Manuel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2005
This presentation on innovation policy development broadens the notion of innovation to include all sorts of "process … innovations" and organizational changes. Then it describes innovation and growth in a historical perspective to conclude that … innovation policies for development should include much more than just supporting formal R&D projects, more than just in "high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009322733
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Innovation and Productivity in Services: Evidence from Chile
Alvarez, Roberto; Zahler, Andrés; Ortega, Claudio Bravo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
This paper analyzes empirically the relationship between innovation and productivity in the Chilean services sector … innovation and the probability of introducing innovations (products or process), such as size and export status. In several … extensions we find similar roles for technological and non-technological innovation in labor productivity and for determinants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010741886