"This paper studies the factors banks perceive as drivers and obstacles to financing small and medium enterprises (SMEs …), focusing on the role of competition and the institutional framework. Using a survey of banks in Argentina and Chile, the paper … business, SMEs have become a strategic segment for most banks in both countries. In particular, banks have begun to target SMEs …

The convertibility law, and economic liberalization in the early 1990s in Argentina, brought about dramatic changes in … (SMEs) were confronted with the task of developing business strategies to secure their niches in the new arena. However … aspects, and insufficient access to finance. The report builds on the following issues: 1) the critical aspect of the SME …

the degree to which firms in this survey have been expanding or contracting employment and investment levels, followed by …

Argentina, to analyze the determinants of informality and its impact on poverty and equity. Informality in the labor market has … become a central concern for policy makers and the society at large in Argentina. The long upward trend in informal … employment until recent year has been viewed as a deterioration in working conditions that is behind the sustained rise in …

employment and earnings as a linkage between growth and poverty reduction, especially in low income countries. With the objective … of providing inputs into the policy discussion on how to enhance poverty reduction through increased employment and …

from the National Survey of Employment, Wages, Technology and Training (ENESTYC), and the National Industrial Survey (EIA … firms, under what circumstances, and performance adopt such technology. To measure performance, productivity wages, and net … employment of a firm were used, leading to further questions on whether technological change helps workers - of a certain skill …

from the National Survey of Employment, Wages, Technology and Training (ENESTYC), and the National Industrial Survey (EIA … firms, under what circumstances, and performance adopt such technology. To measure performance, productivity wages, and net … employment of a firm were used, leading to further questions on whether technological change helps workers - of a certain skill …