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Taxation and Economic Growth in Latin America
Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; Martínez-Vázquez, Jorge; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
Tax policy is among the most common and relevant instruments in the toolkit of policy-makers when thinking about promoting growth, yet there is not compelling evidence regarding its effect in Latin American countries. Using a variety of approaches, we estimate the effects on growth of the most...
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Tax Expenditures for Promoting Investment Applied to Corporate Income Tax
Sabaini, Juan C. Gómez; Velasco, Pedro - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
expenditures in the field of corporate income tax aimed at encouraging investment. It is intended to provide the basis for a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010654619
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Tax Expenditures for Promoting Investment Applied to Corporate Income Tax
Sabaini, Juan C. Gómez; Velasco, Pedro - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
expenditures in the field of corporate income tax aimed at encouraging investment. It is intended to provide the basis for a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009199235
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Barbados: Meeting the Challenge of Competitiveness in the 21st Century
Rojas-Suárez, Liliana; Poon, Auliana; Thomas, Desmond; … - 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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Diaspora Direct Investment Policy: Options for Development
Rodríguez-Montemayor, Eduardo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
impacts of Diaspora Direct Investment (DDI) on international development, i.e. we look at how direct investments from foreign … may act as a catalyst for further investment from other companies by providing market and operational information about …
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Innovation, R&D Investment and Productivity in Chile
Alvarez, Roberto; Ortega, Claudio Bravo; Navarro, Lucas - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
productivity could help to explain the low levels of investment in research and development (R and D) activities by Chilean firms. … process innovation on productivity in the Chilean manufacturing industry during the past decade. In general, the evidence … suggests there is not a contemporaneous effect of product innovation on productivity, but there is a positive effect of process …
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Accessing the Global Value Chain in a Changing Institutional Environment: Comparing Aeronautics and Coffee
Cafaggi, Fabrizio; Swensson, Luana F. Joppert; Junior, … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
The aim of the paper, based on empirical research in Brazil, is to investigate how supply chains have evolved over time, what factors have driven this evolution and also how a specific set of contractual practices along these chains is linked to access to international markets. The two selected...
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Capital Requirements for Latin American Banks in Relation to their Market Risks: The Relevance of the Basle 1996 Amendment to Latin America
Powell, Andrew; Balzarotti, Verónica - Inter-American Development Bank - 1997
Banks' market or 'trading' risks have increased noticeably over the past years, largely as a result of the growth of liquid assets on banks' balance sheets and the increase in banks' off-balance sheet activities. Well-publicized bank failures and significant capital losses have focussed further...
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The Organization of Public-Private Cooperation for Productive Development Policies
Cornick, Jorge - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
Productive development policies (PDPs), what used to be called industrial policies, are increasingly recognized as an essential part of the development toolkit, and the need for public-private cooperation is increasingly viewed as a key element for the successful design and implementation of...
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De-industrialization and Trade
Spilimbergo, Antonio - Inter-American Development Bank - 1995
Baumol (1967) showed that the rate of growth of an economy slows down if a sector has lower productivity than others …
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