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El sector financiero en Honduras: Visión general y tópicos sobre la red de seguridad financiera
Guerrero, Rosa Matilde; Focke, Kurt S.; Armijos, Simón … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
El sistema financiero de Honduras sufrió el impacto de la crisis financiera de 2009 con un deterioro de los indicadores de calidad de activos y de rentabilidad, que posteriormente experimentaron una recuperación en 2010. En el último año se ha podido notar una preferencia de los agentes por...
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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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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 …
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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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Are Environmental Taxes Affected by Legislatures' Ideological Positions?
Miller, Sebastian; Vela, Mauricio A. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
Environmental taxes have been discussed as one of the main mechanisms to deal with environmental problems. Nonetheless, instruments of this type have rarely been implemented, and the adoption of new or higher environmental taxes has faced resistance in some countries. The purpose of this work is...
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Barbados: Meeting the Challenge of Competitiveness in the 21st Century
Thomas, Desmond; Rojas-Suárez, Liliana; Poon, Auliana; … - Inter-American Development Bank
The material within these pages shows that Barbados, a Caribbean country with just over a quarter of a million people, embodies many of the classic vulnerabilities of an island with a small open economy, yet aspires to developed-country status, and is already well advanced on the road to...
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Logistics as a Competitiveness Factor for Small and Medium Enterprises in Latin America and the Caribbean
Kirby, Carlos; Brosa, Nicolau - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
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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Second-tier Government Banks and Firm Performance: Micro-Evidence from Colombia
Maffioli, Alessandro; Eslava, Marcela; Arjona, Marcela … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
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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Innovation in Services: The Hard Case for Latin America and the Caribbean
Tacsir, Ezequiel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
Recent research conducted by the IDB shows that innovation positively affects productivity growth in the Latin American … dynamics at play in the service sector in the region and the relationship between productivity and innovation in services (as … prolonged productivity lags in the region, while, if well designed and implemented, could have large economic payoffs. This …
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