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This paper develops a port productivity and efficiency analysis of all developing regions between 2000 and 2010, using …, and 1,750 data points-, we carry out an analysis of the evolution and drivers of productivity and efficiency changes … across developing regions. We show that productivity growth rates between 2000 and 2010 vary significantly and that this …
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This volume uses the study of firm dynamics to investigate the factors preventing faster productivity growth in Latin … examination of a different factor affecting firm productivity - innovation, ICT usage, on-the-job-training, firm age, access to … Innovation Dynamics and Productivity: Evidence for Latin America -- 3 Innovative Activity in the Caribbean: Drivers, Benefits …
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This volume uses the study of firm dynamics to investigate the factors preventing faster productivity growth in Latin … America and the Caribbean. Each chapter is dedicated to an examination of a different factor affecting firm productivity …
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We compute Public Sector Performance (PSP) and Public Sector Efficiency (PSE) indicators and Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) efficiency scores for a sample of twenty-three Latin American and Caribbean Countries (LAC) to measure efficiency of public spending for the period 2001-2010. Our results...
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treated ship-to-shore gantry cranes and mobile cranes separately, in order to account for the higher productivity of the … productivity; and (iii) we introduced a binary variable for ports operating as transshipment hubs. Their associated parameters are …
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We compute Public Sector Performance (PSP) and Public Sector Efficiency (PSE) indicators and Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) efficiency scores for a sample of twenty-three Latin American and Caribbean Countries (LAC) to measure efficiency of public spending for the period 2001-2010. Our results...
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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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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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