This paper evaluates the impact of the Chilean Supplier Development Program, aimed at improving and stabilizing the commercial linkages between small and medium-sized suppliers and their large firm customers, during the period 2003-2008. Applying propensity score matching and...

Este documento apresenta uma contribuição para o desenvolvimento de análises de programas de desenvolvimento produtivo (PDP). A proposta metodológica do Mapeamento e Índice de Desempenho Institucional (MIDI) constitui um esforço para quantificar e mensurar os aspectos institucionais que...

This document aims to contribute to the development of a tool to analyze Productive Development Programs (PDPs). The methodology for mapping and measuring of institutional performance (MIDI, from its acronym in Spanish) constitutes an effort to quantify and measure the organizational aspects...

Este documento presenta una contribución al desarrollo de una herramienta de análisis de programas de desarrollo productivo (PDP). La propuesta metodológica del Mapeo e Índice de Desempeño Institucional (MIDI) constituye un esfuerzo para cuantificar y medir los aspectos institucionales que...

El objetivo de este documento es presentar la situación de la banda ancha en Argentina, además de servir como punto de partida para el inicio de un debate que sirva para la identificación de oportunidades que promuevan el desarrollo social y económico de las personas mediante la expansión...

This paper addresses the relationships between innovation, research and development (R&D) and productivity in domestic ICT firms in Costa Rica. Factors considered were the types of innovation outputs produced by domestic ICT firms, the relative importance of innovation inputs, the impacts of...

This paper surveys and analyzes industrial policies in Colombia, finding extensive use of productive development policies (PDPs) and despite claims of only moderate government intervention. Rarely explicitly associated with the need to address market failures, PDPs are instead associated with...