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Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Latin America and the Caribbean: Current Situation, Future Trends and One Policy Experiment
Vosti, Stephen; Msangi, Siwa; Lima, Eirivelthon; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
vegetation for agriculture in tropical areas within LAC on GHG emissions, food production, food prices, and child malnutrition at … several spatial scales. Results suggest that a complete ban on land clearing for agriculture would significantly reduce GHG …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009246466
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Integration & Trade Journal: Volume 16 : No. 35 : July-December, 2012
Ruta, Michele; Venables, Anthony J.; Rozenwurcel, Guillermo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
The last decade has seen a significant increase in the exports of several Latin American and Caribbean countries to destinations within and beyond the region. The increase in trade links has not, however, been accompanied by a proportional increase in reciprocal investments among the trading...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010672577
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Rural Finance: Sector Strategy (2002)
Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2001
The principal purpose of the Rural Finance Strategy (GN-2123-3) is to orient the operational staff of the Bank responsible for designing rural finance projects. The objective of the Bank on this area is to promote the provision of efficient, broadly based, and sustainable rural financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010673036
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Designing Impact Evaluations for Agricultural Projects
Winters, Paul; Salazar, Lina; Maffioli, Alessandro - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
, particularly projects that directly target farmers, and seek to improve agricultural production, productivity and profitability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009193973
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Rural Development from a Territorial Perspective: Case Studies in Asia and Latin America
Damiani, Octavio - Inter-American Development Bank - 2007
This paper reviews the contribution of agriculture and rural development to poverty reduction by examining the … based on national statistics on the importance of agriculture and the growth of Gross Domestic Product, the five territories … that implied different roles of agriculture. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009352065
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Rural Development from a Territorial Perspective: Case Studies in Asia and Latin America
Damiani, Octavio - Inter-American Development Bank - 2007
This paper reviews the contribution of agriculture and rural development to poverty reduction by examining the … based on national statistics on the importance of agriculture and the growth of Gross Domestic Product, the five territories … that implied different roles of agriculture. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010652561
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009395237
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009421326
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009644856
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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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