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The Role of Flagship Firms, External Actors and Support Institutions in the Emergence of Successful Export Activities in Brazil: Two Industrial Cluster Studies
Rocha, Angela da; Kury, Beatriz; Monteiro, Joana - Inter-American Development Bank - 2009
This paper examines the process by which firms in a cluster start to export based on systemic interactions and the process of diffusion of exporting as a business strategy within the cluster. Two Brazilian manufacturing industries are studied, and within each one a geographic cluster was...
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Access to Credit and the Size of the Formal Sector in Brazil
Pablo D`Erasmo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
change in credit conditions has important effects on firm size distribution and aggregate productivity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010662976
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Development of a Procedure for the Construction of GEI Emission Abatement Curves Incorporating the Uncertainty Associated to the Main Mitigation Variables
Clerc, Jacques; Diaz, Manuel; Campos, Bruno - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
The general objective of the study is to develop a methodology for the preparation of greenhouse-gas abatement curves for the energy demand sector, incorporating the uncertainty associated to the variables involved in estimating the marginal abatement costs. Furthermore, this approach will be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010691618
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Regional Financial Development and Firm Growth in Peru
Moron, Eduardo; Salgado, Edgar; Seminario, Cristhian - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
This paper documents the relationship between regional financial development and firm growth in the Peruvian manufacturing sector. In order to control for mutual causality between credit availability and firm growth, industry differences in financial dependence on external funds are exploited....
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La industria y la integración en los 90 : resultados de una encuesta a los industriales latinoamericanos
Ondarts, Guillermo R. (contributor) - 1992
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000862579
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Inflation Targeting in Latin America
Barajas, Adolfo; Steiner, Roberto; Villar, Leonardo; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2014
Estimation of conventional Taylor rules for Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Peru shows that central banks increase their repo rate in response to increases in the output gap and, except in Peru, to deviations of inflation expectations from target. Using a Markov-Switching methodology, it is found...
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The age of productivity : transforming economies from the bottom up
Pagés, Carmen (contributor) - 2010 - 1. ed.
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Firm innovation and productivity in Latin America and the Caribbean : the engine of economic development
Grazzi, Matteo (ed.); Pietrobelli, Carlo (ed.) - 2016
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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Wealth from health linking social investments to earnings in Latin America
Savedoff, William D. (ed.); Schultz, T. Paul (contributor) - 2000
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Firm innovation and productivity in Latin America and the Caribbean : the engine of economic development
Grazzi, Matteo (ed.); Pietrobelli, Carlo (ed.) - 2016
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013547378