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Upgrading to compete : global value chains, clusters, and SMEs in Latin America
Pietrobelli, Carlo (ed.); Rabellotti, Roberta (contributor) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003652077
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Organizational assessment : a framework for improving performance
Lusthaus, Charles; Adrien, Marie-Hélène; Anderson, Gary A. - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001740313
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La transformación y el fortalecimiento institucional de los Ministerios de Hacienda en América Latina : del control al uso estratégico de los recursos públicos para el desarrollo...
Arenas, Alberto; Mosqueira Medina, Edgardo - Vereinte Nationen / Economic Commission for Latin …; … - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012603123
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Anthropometric Failures: Nutrition, Early Child Interventions and Emotional, and Cognitive Development Potentials
Giuffrida, Antonio - Inter-American Development Bank - 2007
This presentation deals with the following issue: how poverty, poor health, nutrition and care affect child development. The author reviews a series of "capabilities approaches," including concepts such as the conversion of primary good into the person's ability to promote his/her ends. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323959
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Early Social-Emotional and Cognitive Basis for Human Development Potential, and Improved Quality of Life
Greenspan, Stanley; Breinbauer, Cecilia - Inter-American Development Bank - 2007
This presentation discusses the effects of social motivation on brain development in early childhood and the role of emotions on child development. Optimal nutrition and social-emotional development are the basic building blocks for higher level thinking abilities, human development and quality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009352047
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Anthropometric Failures: Nutrition, Early Child Interventions and Emotional, and Cognitive Development Potentials
Giuffrida, Antonio - Inter-American Development Bank - 2007
This presentation deals with the following issue: how poverty, poor health, nutrition and care affect child development. The author reviews a series of "capabilities approaches," including concepts such as the conversion of primary good into the person's ability to promote his/her ends. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010654383
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Early Social-Emotional and Cognitive Basis for Human Development Potential, and Improved Quality of Life
Greenspan, Stanley; Breinbauer, Cecilia - Inter-American Development Bank - 2007
This presentation discusses the effects of social motivation on brain development in early childhood and the role of emotions on child development. Optimal nutrition and social-emotional development are the basic building blocks for higher level thinking abilities, human development and quality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010655383
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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