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CMF Portfolio Notes: Volume 1: Issue 1: January 2011
Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2011
The Capital Markets and Financial Institutions Division, as part of its Knowledge Management Strategy, designed a tool to standardize the analysis and classification of projects financed by the division since the year 2000. It is meant to be used by staff and consultants in any analysis...
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Expanding the Knowledge Capital of Latin America and the Caribbean: An IDB Strategy for Education and Training
Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2005
The purpose of this Strategic Framework is to guide, and help increase the effectiveness of, Bank action in the education sector. The Framework responds to requests by the Board of Executive Directors for updated sector strategies following the approval of the Institutional Strategy in 1999. The...
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The Emergence of Successful Export Activities in Uruguay: Four Case Studies
Snoeck, Michele; Pittaluga, Lucia; Pastori, Hector; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2009
This paper consists of four case studies of the emergence of four successful export activities in Uruguay: computer software, forest products, caviar and sturgeon meat, and animal vaccines. Each case study discusses how companies, associations, and governments at various levels have addressed...
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The Emergence of Successful Export Activities in Mexico: Three Case Studies
Aragon, Edgar; Fouquet, Anne; Campos, Marcia - Inter-American Development Bank - 2009
This paper consists of three case studies of the emergence of three successful export activities in Mexico: avocado production, the manufacture of catheters, and call center outsourcing. Each case study discusses how companies, associations, and governments at various levels have addressed...
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From Few to Many: Ten Years of Health Insurance Expansion in Colombia Title: Salud al alcance de todos: Una década de expansión del seguro médico en Colombia
Giuffrida, Antonio; Flórez, Carmen Elisa; Giedion, Úrsula - Inter-American Development Bank
From Few to Many is the first comprehensive look at Colombia's 1993 health system reforms. It describes the implementation of universal health insurance, including a subsidized system for the poor, and examines the impact of this and other reforms during a time when Colombia experienced crushing...
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From Growth to Prosperity: Policy Perspectives for Trinidad and Tobago
Artana, Daniel; Thomas, Wendell; Rojas-Suárez, Liliana; … - Inter-American Development Bank
improved social services. In this context, we believe the timing of this report to be most opportune. To achieve sustainable …
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Services, Anti-dumping and Other ¿New Issues¿ in the WTO Negotiations and Their Relevance for the FTAA Title: Servicios, Anti-Dumping y Otros ¿Nuevos Temas¿ en las Negociaciones de...
Jara, Alejandro - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002
In the semester following the Doha Ministerial, WTO Members were able to set up the essential elements of the Work Program decided by Ministers at Doha (November 2001), including the negotiations mandated in the declaration.Abstract: Lo anterior permitió que iniciaran negociaciones en diversas...
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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 …. Consistent with recent evidence on developed countries, we find that services firms are as innovative as firms in the … the case that even larger efforts need to be done to have better measures of innovation and productivity in the services …
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Technological and Nontechnological Innovation and Productivity in Services vis a vis Manufacturing in Uruguay
Aboal, Diego; Garda, Paula - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
-technological innovation), and productivity in services and manufacturing are explored using innovation survey data from Uruguay. This is the …) innovations are positively associated to productivity gains in services, but nontechnological innovations have a more important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010741896
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From Few to Many: Ten Years of Health Insurance Expansion in Colombia Title: Salud al alcance de todos: Una década de expansión del seguro médico en Colombia
Giuffrida, Antonio; Flórez, Carmen Elisa; Giedion, Úrsula - Inter-American Development Bank
From Few to Many is the first comprehensive look at Colombia's 1993 health system reforms. It describes the implementation of universal health insurance, including a subsidized system for the poor, and examines the impact of this and other reforms during a time when Colombia experienced crushing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943453